Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card Review

Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Overview
When I first took the HD 6850 out of the packaging I was actually surprised at how small it was.  It looks like your typical mid-range video card.  The HD 6850 has a configuration of 960 stream processors and 48 texture processing units.  Clock speeds of 775MHz for the core and 1000Mhz (4 Gb/sec effective) for the memory give users access to excellent performance at a lower price point with full DirectX 11 support.

Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card

There is a black shroud that covers most of the card.  The only thing that really lets you know this is a 6850 card is the Radeon HD 6850 logo on the shroud.  There is a small cooling fan that will help keep the card cool during gaming and other applications.

Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card

There are quite a few connections on the HD 6850.  It has two DVI, one HDMI and a single DisplayPort output.  We are seeing DisplayPort become standard on most video cards these days.  With the release of the DisplayPort v1.2 drivers, it will be possible to daisy chain several DisplayPort v1.2 monitors from each DisplayPort output.  The reference design of the HD 6850 had 2 mini-DisplayPort connections, but Sapphire went with the single normal DisplayPort connection.

Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card

Moving around to the other side of the card you can see that it is powered by a single 6pin PCI-Express power cable.  You can also see the large heatsink that is on top of the GPU.  Flipping the card over you can see Sapphire has used an all blue PCB.  Also all of the serial numbers are on the back of the card.

Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card

16 comments
  1. Did you notice in GPUZ it showed 1120 SP not 960? There are other sites reporting the same thing with their review samples.

  2. Nice shill graphic for Dirt 2. A 2 FPS difference in the cards and yet you feel the need to change that graphic’s style to make it look like the 6850 is doing way better than it did.

  3. I upgraded to this card from an Intel GTS 240 which was a weak, overheating, very low end graphics card factory installed by Dell. I did not see any mention here of the ATI Overdrive software included with the card that gives easy and smooth custom alteration of GPU, Memory and Fan speed settings. I usually increase fan speed before entering heavy intensive gaming resulting in very cool sessions. I purchased mine for $179.00 from Newegg before they raised the price to $200.00 when they saw the demand increasing. This is a sweet powerful and future proofed card any gaming person would love to install in their system.

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