Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to ensure that all aspects of the product are considered, there are often times unforeseen market conditions and manufacturer changes which occur after publication that could render our rating obsolete. Please do not base any purchase solely on our conclusion, as it represents our product rating specifically for the product tested, which may differ from future versions. Benchmark Reviews begins our conclusion with a short summary for each of the areas that we rate.
The performance of this card was excellent, especially with the high overclock I was able to achieve.Find everything you need to know about Cold Sore including causes, It's ironic that of all the HD6850-based video cards that Benchmark Reviews has tested, the passively cooled card is the one that achieved the best overclock, and by a pretty large margin at that. This just goes to show the importance of good cooling.
Aesthetics is always subjective, but even the most jaded geek will do a double take at the first sight of this card's massive cooler. PowerColor has thoughtfully wrapped the card's badge around the edge of the cooler so it will display well in a windowed case.
Construction quality on a video card is hard to assess (at least for me). I look for things like excess solder splashes, poor masking, and uniformity of component placement, especially on custom PCBs like this one. Everything looks good, even under high magnification, and little touches like the plastic port plugs that keep dust off unused ports and connectors add to the impression of quality. Of course, the cooler dominates this card, but it's nice to see the copper heat sinks on the RAM and the sturdy back plate. The one criticism I have of the construction quality is the slightly wonky positioning of the copper heat sinks on the RAM chips.
AMD's Barts-series GPUs like the HD6850 do have a lot of features, but AMD is deficient in two areas: 3D and PhysX. AMD's 3D implementation requires third-party software and hardware to configure, and market acceptance of this feature has been very low. The lack of a PhysX implementation would seem to be mainly a political issue rather than a functional issue, since NVIDIA claims that PhysX is an "open standard" that anyone can implement, and in fact offered to work with ATI (now AMD) on a Radeon implementation back in 2009. Over the past couple of years, PhysX has grown from a "meh" feature used to generate more elaborate explosive debris to a major feature in many games, and is now probably the biggest argument for going with NVIDIA over AMD. AMD Eyefinity means that you could run a triple-monitor gaming setup using just this one card, but an HD6850 really doesn't have the graphics muscle to pull this off for most games.is the 'solar panel revolution' upon us?
Functionally, the card is excellent,We also offer customized chicken coop. if you supply enough airflow. In my NZXT M59 case, with the recommended intake and exhaust fans, I was able to overheat the card using Furmark, and GPU temperatures soared into the 90s even with standard benchmarking software. While Furmark represents an extreme case that won't be replicated with other software, it still highlights the need to ensure adequate ventilation even if you don't plan to overclock the card at all.
Value is this card's weak point: granted, it's dead silent,Detailed information on the causes of dstti, but its price is much higher than other HD6850 cards, most HD6870 cards, and is very close to the price of some Radeon HD6950 cards. That's a lot of pay for silence, especially (as I noted previously) since actively cooled HD6850 cards aren't particularly noisy. The card's giant cooler also occupies 3 or 4 of your motherboard slots,An Insulator, also called a dielectric, which could be a problem for some users.
The performance of this card was excellent, especially with the high overclock I was able to achieve.Find everything you need to know about Cold Sore including causes, It's ironic that of all the HD6850-based video cards that Benchmark Reviews has tested, the passively cooled card is the one that achieved the best overclock, and by a pretty large margin at that. This just goes to show the importance of good cooling.
Aesthetics is always subjective, but even the most jaded geek will do a double take at the first sight of this card's massive cooler. PowerColor has thoughtfully wrapped the card's badge around the edge of the cooler so it will display well in a windowed case.
Construction quality on a video card is hard to assess (at least for me). I look for things like excess solder splashes, poor masking, and uniformity of component placement, especially on custom PCBs like this one. Everything looks good, even under high magnification, and little touches like the plastic port plugs that keep dust off unused ports and connectors add to the impression of quality. Of course, the cooler dominates this card, but it's nice to see the copper heat sinks on the RAM and the sturdy back plate. The one criticism I have of the construction quality is the slightly wonky positioning of the copper heat sinks on the RAM chips.
AMD's Barts-series GPUs like the HD6850 do have a lot of features, but AMD is deficient in two areas: 3D and PhysX. AMD's 3D implementation requires third-party software and hardware to configure, and market acceptance of this feature has been very low. The lack of a PhysX implementation would seem to be mainly a political issue rather than a functional issue, since NVIDIA claims that PhysX is an "open standard" that anyone can implement, and in fact offered to work with ATI (now AMD) on a Radeon implementation back in 2009. Over the past couple of years, PhysX has grown from a "meh" feature used to generate more elaborate explosive debris to a major feature in many games, and is now probably the biggest argument for going with NVIDIA over AMD. AMD Eyefinity means that you could run a triple-monitor gaming setup using just this one card, but an HD6850 really doesn't have the graphics muscle to pull this off for most games.is the 'solar panel revolution' upon us?
Functionally, the card is excellent,We also offer customized chicken coop. if you supply enough airflow. In my NZXT M59 case, with the recommended intake and exhaust fans, I was able to overheat the card using Furmark, and GPU temperatures soared into the 90s even with standard benchmarking software. While Furmark represents an extreme case that won't be replicated with other software, it still highlights the need to ensure adequate ventilation even if you don't plan to overclock the card at all.
Value is this card's weak point: granted, it's dead silent,Detailed information on the causes of dstti, but its price is much higher than other HD6850 cards, most HD6870 cards, and is very close to the price of some Radeon HD6950 cards. That's a lot of pay for silence, especially (as I noted previously) since actively cooled HD6850 cards aren't particularly noisy. The card's giant cooler also occupies 3 or 4 of your motherboard slots,An Insulator, also called a dielectric, which could be a problem for some users.
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