Sapphire & HIS Radeon HD 6850 - 6870 presents

Just in time for release of the new generation of AMD graphics cards, we want to present you, of course, two models of the manufacturer Sapphire and HIS. As a long-time partner Sapphire has always managed to attract by extravagant cooling designs and high clock rates and HIS buyer was able to score every now and then with his own IceQ cooler.

Since most of the core features we already at the launch of the HD 6850 &  HD have listed 6870, we want to take on this rather short. All new graphics cards with the 40 nanometer chip Barts are able to support DirectX 11 and also direct 11 instructions, 3D stereoscopic displays (HD3D) and up to 7 monitors per graphics card.





Both the HIS Radeon HD 6870 and the Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 equipped with the reference cooler from AMD and are only distinguishable by their respective labels. The rest of the components, the reference, the 1120 stream processors clocked at 900 MHz and get 1 GB of GDDR5 with 4,200 MHz provided as temporary storage. The user can connect a monitor via 2 DVI, 2 mini DisplayPort 1.2, or 1 HDMI 1.4a connection with the PC.





With the Radeon HD 6850 AMD seems to have given no real reference design, as far can be largely related models with its own cooler. Map of Sapphire is to be cooled with the known models of the Vapor-X fan. The cooling concept of HIS is not new, except to offer both video cards "only" 2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1x DisplayPort 1.4a and 1.2. Otherwise, the equipment is re-reference, 960 stream processors with 775 MHz, with 1 GB of 4000 MHz GDDR5. By the way: One reason we are not known, but all known HD 6850 cards have a blue PCB, which could be interesting for case modders.

could be interesting, that support all the new cards Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio decoding and easily with the new UVD 3 video content with MPEG, H.264 or VC-1 codec, Multiple Video Coding for Blu Ray is 3D, especially for home cinema enthusiasts also no problem. As an interface by the way the current PCIe 2.1 standard is used, however, the cards can also operate without problems on older motherboards.