andreif7: The fat white one passed away 5 weeks ago ?Kidney failure ?We had hoped him to make it to 7 years or mor….andreif7: It's always the worst aspect of having pets ?.So I finally have two-thirds of an answer for you. RyanSmithAT: The one-third of the answer I don't have for you is why the two GE76 laptops scored so differently.RyanSmithAT: Unfortunately, Ian is in Hawaii right now.andreif7: V1 cores are unexpected, no wonder they call it an AI chip.IanCutress: They said 1.11 onwards? Perhaps Intel is putting the hammer down?.IanCutress: More as in the phrase is shoehorned into everywhere.IanCutress: Depends how much you (a) know about the financial system or (b) just love to talk about t….IanCutress: Life was simpler back then.Two years ago it was all NVIDIA, and back in the 9800 days it was all ATI. AMD has a better midrange part right now, but NVIDIA has faster parts if you're willing to pay the price and power. This is making mountains out of mole hills and then some. All it said was, "yes, an overclocked 460 can do quite well, but it draws more power and costs more so it's not really desirable." Maybe a simple statement of, "Time constraints (and lack of a retail card) led us to running stock settings we'll be back next week with more data on 6850 overclocking." What's really stupid is that the conclusion wasn't even in favor of the GTX 460. Had you overclocked a 6850 in the initial review, there would have been nothing to stand on.
I'd say the vase majority of us simply want more data. you probably only get about 10% of the posts, and they're still a minority. If you were to wade through the mass of posts on the two 6800 articles and eliminate flame wars, trolling, etc. Ramon Zarat: Past posting history indicate strong AMD/ATI preference. Definitely a squeaky wheel, but only represents ONE person. Spigzone: Off and on poster over time, but EXTREMELY vocal on the 460 FTW issues. Vedye: Never posted before GTX 460 and anti-Nvidia. So, here's a Google of site.ĪnandThenMan: almost never a nice thing to say, and definitely anti-Nvidia. 7Enigma in particular) are mostly interested in the bottom line rather than fanboy rage. Here are the nay-sayers posting on this article's comments most of the others (i.e. Seriously, do a Google on the most vocal user names and this site. Half of the users complaining and calling your credibility into question have no credibility to begin with! I swear there were a ton of new users that we have never heard from before. I thought the amount of noise a select few made was stupid then, and it's even dumber now!ĪnandTech, you first need to wade through the users posting comments and do some research on past "input". I also didn't bother wading through any of the comments on the "what do you want" follow up.
You know, I didn't get into the initial 6850 + 460 FTW brouhaha because I figured any sensible being wouldn't have a problem with it. My response isn't really to either of the above two readers.) whatthehey - Tuesday, Novemlink (I'm posting here because otherwise you get lost in the fanboy "debate" below.Whereas the stock 6850 is undeniably slower than the stock 5850, we’d be comfortable calling the R6850 OC comparable to the 5850. Meanwhile the MSI R6850 OC with its higher overclock does manage to top the Radeon HD 5850 at times, depending on how big the gap was in the first place. The Asus with its sub-2% overclock doesn’t make any notable headway here. There won’t be any surprises here, as the MSI card is the only card with a significant overclock, pushing it ahead of the reference card, the XFX, and the Asus 6850s but not being enough to significantly chance the performance of the card. Patriot Viper DDR3-1333 3 x 2GB (7-7-7-20)Īs we do have a couple of overclocked cards in today’s roundup we’ve gone ahead and quickly run a subset of our benchmarks.
#XFX RADEON HD 6850 DOUBLE D SERIES#
For our testing we’re using the 6800 series launch drivers: AMD Catalyst 10.10.