AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition & Radeon HD 7850 Review: Rounding Out Southern Islands
by Ryan Smith on March 5, 2012 12:01 AM ESTPortal 2
Portal 2 continues the long and proud tradition of Valve’s in-house Source engine. While Source continues to be a DX9 engine, Valve has continued to upgrade it over the years to improve its quality, and combined with their choice of style you’d have a hard time telling it’s over 7 years old at this point. Consequently Portal 2’s performance does get rather high on high-end cards, but we have ways of fixing that…
Portal 2 ends up being at about the middle of the road as far as performance goes. The 7870 enjoys a smaller lead over both the 6970 and the GTX 570, while the 7850 takes one of its biggest losses versus the 6950 and GTX 560 Ti at around 3-5%. The good news is that at these performance levels, performance is good enough for the SSAA bonus round, which sees the 7870 hitting just shy of 60fps. The 7850 on the other hand only falls further behind the GTX 560 Ti with SSAA, and at 45fps probably isn’t going to be quite fast enough to make the cut.
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slypher1024 - Thursday, March 8, 2012 - link
Well said bro...Its like Nvidia and Amd secretly team up to maximizing profits.. AMD launch now, over price the product, Nvidia hold out for like 3-5 months, then launches a more powerful product knowing all too well that yes AMD will drop there prices, but we have the more powerful hardware so, persons will still gobble it up..
You would think with the launch of a new product line, AMD would drop the price significantly so it can encourage customer to buy off the remaining stock .
IceDread - Thursday, March 8, 2012 - link
I do not think it's ok to skip hd 7970 but include nvidia 580. This makes anandtech look like it favors nvidia over amd and the entire site can be questioned.warmbit - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - link
Here is the link to an interesting overview performance 7870 and 7850 of 5 Web sites competing Nvidia cards - GTX580 and GTX570 and penalties of the previous generation AMD - 6970 and 6950.Analysis of the results of the Radeon 7870 and 7850 in 12 games and 5 resolutions:
http://translate.google.pl/translate?hl=pl&sl=...
You will know the relationship between average interest rates these cards and you will find out in which graphics card is better in the game and resolution.