MSI Afterburner Beta Radeon HD 6850 Crossfire 1200p

[conover2006]

if you turn off the msi fraps ..you will get beter frames......it lags some game out......F9 to start the bench

[mmstick]

@conover2006 I suppose it could if you had a crappy processor, but no, it works fine, only issues are with crossfire implementation and my motherboards restricted PCIE bandwidth at the time, if which I no longer have crossfire and now own a Sabertooth 990FX, single GPU is just fine to run all of today's games fine, although Shogun 2 could use a faster GPU than 6850 when it has to render 20,000+ men at the same time in HD.

[Quietess]

What game is this? o_o;

[Edge0fPain]

is that microstutter @ 1:18 or is that just a low frame rate?

I'm asking because I may get 2 x 6850s or 6870s.

The thing is my PSU can only have a maximum of 2 PCI express 6 pin cables plugged into it at any one time (Coolermaster Silent Pro 700 Watts)

[mmstick]

@Edge0fPain It was an issue of the recording software not picking up every frame plus a side of low fps because Crossfire at the time was poor, only around 55% of each GPU was utilized. If you only have two 6-pin cables you will only be able to do two 6850's. But you may be somewhat better with spending on something like a 6950 and BIOS modding it to a 6970 or waiting for the new HD 7xxx series in the next two months. As always has been the case, some games have Crossfire/SLI issues.

[Edge0fPain]

@mmstick

Meh, two 6850s outspeed a 6950 :/

[mmstick]

@Edge0fPain Maybe so in raw power, but would you say that for the huge portion of games that do not support Crossfire? I had many games that had negative FPS or never utilized Crossfire to even make a difference, even games officially supported in Crossfire profiles. When it comes to actually getting more FPS, a 6950 will overcome two 6850s in a huge portion of games unsupported in Crossfire. The only games that did scale were a couple major releases like Battlefield

[conover2006]

its not 1200p DU 1920x1200...does not mean 1200p DU

[mmstick]

@conover2006 I'm afraid the p in 1200p means progressive. being 1200 pixels wide and progressive, it is therefore 1200p. You can't be racist against the aspect ratio for being WUXGA. I don't think the average person is going to understand what WUXGA means, 1200p is the sweetest and mostly simplest form of saying 1920x1200.

[CNLehr]

What are your settings for MSI afterburner?

[burzumaske20]

I just crossfire the 6850 last night,i noticed on ultra setting for witcher 2,I get 30fps average.with a single card 12fps average.

[mmstick]

It is Unigine Heaven engine which was used to make a benchmark.

[BattlefieldJoe97]

Maybe

[BattlefieldJoe97]

Not a benchmark video

[BattlefieldJoe97]

I'am sorry if I sound like a dumb ass but is this a video game

[xstncd]

Nice Benchmark, I'm planning on getting a pair of these R6850's, what do you think of them? Kills every game you played so far in terms of performance? (;

[mmstick]

@xstncd I recommend two R6870s since they are only about 10-20$ more and 30% faster. The only problem is they use two PCIE 6-pins per GPU rather than one like the 6850 does. But yes, R6850 Crossfire kills everything. 120 FPS in Bad Company 2 at 8xAA and everything enabled for example.

[ismakami]

there is still a litlle drivers issues, since your gpus usage is not 99%. Nice vid and i don`t know that about Msi afterburner, never use Fraps again.

[mmstick]

@ismakami I have also noticed that if I turn tesellation to extreme and 8xAA it uses 97% one GPU1 and 74% on GPU2, while obtaining roughly about the same FPS