HD 6870, HD 6870 + 6850 CF, HD 6850 OC: everything that wasn’t yet about Barts

Although the weaker solution based on the code name Barts has already been identified in the "ATI Radeon HD 6850 and CFX - in the name of confusion, core power”At the time, we couldn’t even give a complete picture of the entire Barts family in the absence of the HD 6870, i.e. BartsXT. Now is the time to look at the other representatives of the HD 68xx in terms of additional aspects, such as how close we can get to the HD 6870 by tuning the HD 6850, and what the two cards know about each other. , if it is a collaboration, i.e. CrossFireX mode.

Meanwhile, the Catalyst 10.12 came out, and since we measured the ASUS HD 6850 with the 10.10c that year, it turns out if there’s a change in performance between the two drives. It gives us great pleasure to be yourself for the first time in the history of the site AMD provided the cards for the test, so on the following pages you’ll see factory models to the core, the way the Reds dreamed and made them. In addition, these are very early engineering specimens.

On the next page, we examine the structural differences between HD 6850 and HD 6870, i.e. you can find out what the difference is between Barts and BartsXT, and we also provide information about "mixed" CrossFire.