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We initially tested with the Catalyst Control Center. We maxed the sliders out at 1,050mhz core and 1,500mhz memory.
The card was stable at these speeds, so we fired up Sapphire's TRIXX to see if we could push it any further.
We managed to achieve an impressive 21.4% overclock before instability would occur. The memory peaked at 1,573mhz (6.3Gbps effective) speeds before it would cause artifacting.
The substantial overclock helps to push the performance of the hardware just past the reference clocked R9 270 Direct CU II OC.
You know im in two minds over this.
Firstly, for the price – wow, what a great deal.
But another rebadge with some ‘tweaks’ from AMD? come on, its such a cop out 🙁 At least they didnt send you a reference card. makes a change!
The HD7850 continues to live – to be fair its AMD’s best GPU ever. Thats my take, so plenty of life still left in it, especially for £100.
The GTX760 is faster, but its £200, it wont be faster than two of these in Crossfire, for the same money!
Im glad the 7850 is still around. I got upgraded to one under warranty when my 6870 died. Its great and it can play pretty much anything almost on full at 1080p.
Then I did something silly and I got another one. Crossfire is really disappointing to me. There are too many games that don’t support it properly.