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MSI offers 3 years, Zotac 2 years and upon registering you would get 5 years warranty.
^ nice compliation there!
so AFTER OC, gtx 4601gb performs better than OC hd6850.
+1 for Nvidia!!
one more observation is that AT STOCK SPEEDS, 6850 is faster than 460 in these benches.
its only AFTER A BIG OC that gtx 460 surpasses 6850 in all benches.
that means fermi gains a lot by OC.
CONCLUSION: so if you are not OC'ing the card, buy a 6850.
if you are, then buy a gtx460.
I would say HD6850 performs better than GTX460 when OCed. That's why In Dx10 bench the result is :
MW2 2560*1600 resolution :
HD 6850 OC : 84 FPS
GTX 460 OC : 76 FPS
and in DX 11 bench it's BFBC2 2560*1600 resolution :
HD 6850 OC : 30 FPS
GTX 460 OC : 29 FPS
also HD6850 consumes less power.
How could u remember exact date of release of drivers , its been 2 years hmmm its really a typo , i thought its DEC 2008
Thats Ok
Gr8 - So HD 6850 temperature should be over 100'DTemp
With MSI Cyclone GTX 460 many did 900Mhz with 80Deg Max load temp , Nvidia has Physx & cuda to take advantage
I've read about it once on jan 09 and still I can recall that.
The HD6850 guru3d has used is stock cooler based and MSI GTX 460 cyclone has a better cooler. With some 3rd party custom coler HD6850 will remain cool when OCed I reckon.
BTW, see this review :
MSI Radeon HD 6850 review
Overclocked MSI HD6850 with custom cooler
Core Clock: 973MHz
Shader Clock: 973MHz
Memory Clock: 4800 MHz
The temp reached upto only 70C
@ 2560*1600 this can can reach the performance of a stock HD6870
Very good comparison Topgear. However, 1 thing i need to ask, if the Ocing of both the cards in such a high degree can be done without a special cooling inside the cabinet or just default cooler is enough for it.
And HD 6850 has been released to compete against the GTX 460 768MB version, not with the 1 GB version, but still it can beat the 1 GB version in non Oced state and can compete neck to neck in Oced state. The performance difference in game is not at all anything high, its very very marginal. And look at the price point too, even in India, its 1k cheaper than the Non-Oced version of GTX 460 and in US market available @ $189 compared to standard $215 price of GTX 460 1 GB.
So hats of to AMD ATI.
And may be CUDA is a advantage to be more matured than ATI APP but PhysX, I really doubt that. Have a look at the review in Toms hardware regarding it. Using a middle range card for both game and PhysX will really cripple the performance.
A stock cooled HD6850 is not so good regarding temp when OCed but even a custom cooled normal MSI HD6850 can reach the performance of HD6870 which cost 3-4k more than HD6850 and the temp is only 70c when OCed.
So a custom cooled HD6850 is real winner and better than GTX460 IMO.
it is a decent oc comparison.but 6850 can work proportionatly upto 1010mhz.so d resultz u mentioned might change abit.
Not all gfx card OCs at same level - so some HD6850 can reach that speed but 930-950 Mhz speed can be considered as the average OC speed of HD6850.
