Reviewers Liked
- Cool looking & performing heatsink, Great overclocking & CrossFire performance
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Stickers on the heatsink cover
Gigabyte Radeon HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 PCIe GV-R685D5-1GD
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Now that ATI has launched their next-gen DX11 cards, there’s no shortage of choice out there where manufacturers are concerned. So in the office this week we had Gigabyte’s HD 6850 to play around with. While the basic PCB remains identical...
By Tbreak.com onWhile we were particularly impressed with the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460, our opinion of this Radeon HD 6850 is rather mitigated. Its cooling system, similar to the one used on the GTX 460, doesn’t appear to have been very well calibrated, or really...
By BeHardware onThe major point to glean here is that the 6850 technically isn't a successor to the 5850; we saw the performance is almost identical. The rationale should become more apparent as AMD releases more models, but the 5850 was more of a premium gaming...
By Pureoverclock onAlors que la GeFoce GTX 460 de Gigabyte nous avis particulièrement séduit, notre avis est plutôt mitigé envers cette Radeon HD 6850 dont le système de refroidissement, similaire, n’a visiblement pas été très bien calibré, ni...
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Zur Performance der Gigabyte Radeon HD 6850 in der uns zur Verfügung gestellten Ausführung wollen wir nicht viel sagen. Gigabyte hat sich bei diesem Modell für die Referenztaktraten entschieden und so liegt auch die Performance auf diesem...
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