There’s little to call between the two cards overall as far as performance goes though, unless you only care about a certain game or setting (AA in Bad Company 2, for example). Performance and OverclockingAs a stock-speed HD 6850 1GB, the XFX trades places with the GTX 460 1GB across our test games – in some the XFX is slightly stronger and in others the GTX 460 1GB comes out on top. The change in cooler hasn’t lead to a price increase though – the XFX is as keenly priced as it needs to be to fight against the GeForce GTX 460 1GB on an equal footing.
This 92mm fan blows down onto an aluminium heatsink, with air also travelling through onto the PCB and the memory chips.Īs this the first XFX HD 6800-series card, the cooler is the only difference from the reference card, so the performance of the card is identical to that of the reference card we tested for our ATI Radeon HD 6850 review. The most obvious difference between the XFX and the reference card is that the end-mounted radial fan has been dropped in favour of a more conventional fan that’s mounted in the centre of the cooler.
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