GPUReview's HD 6870 & HD 6850 overclocking roundup!

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 07:30:38 Fri, October 22, 2010

The w1zzards at techPowerUp show what they can do with their internal GPU Tool software and Bjorn3D managed such a high memory overclock on their HD 6850 that I thought it was a typo. Not many of the HD 6850s can reach the HD 6870's reference core speed, but all of them passed 4,200Mhz on the memory.

GPUReview's HD 600 series overclocking roundup.

6 Comments

Sunday, October 24, 2010 4:27:46 PM

anonymousD
n00b

stevo, would you put your lunch money on any 6 series cards you pick up in a retail chain to be very good at oc'ing, via voltage increases or not?

Tuesday, November 02, 2010 2:12:29 PM

em3e3
n00b

Performance-wise, the GTX 460-1GB cards hold their own, especially considering the large overclocking headroom of them and miserly OC of the reference 68X0 cards. But price-wise, the new AMD cards have the advantage. For now.

Wednesday, November 03, 2010 3:09:42 PM

anonymousD
n00b

stock clocks 6850 for the win. oc till the roof gives? 6850 still takes the cake :) with proper software,which is not really widespread right now, all cards should be decent clockers.

and then you factor in power consumption? another win. and price..:)

you get a 460 if you need cuda, fold, and thats it.

ps not all ppl oc, hell very few will. so another win for the 68xx cards :)

Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:47:55 PM

Where's the GT 430?

Wednesday, April 06, 2011 2:52:00 AM

jimday
n00b

where is the graph? did you remove it?!

Thursday, April 07, 2011 6:34:50 PM

Steve
The Progenitor

@jimday
No I did not. Imageshack ate it. I don't know if I can fix it either. This won't happen once Don gives me an easy to upload article pictures to GPUReview.com itself.

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