AMD Radeon HD 7870 And 7850 Review: Pitcairn Gets Benchmarked

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Unfortunately, our in-depth evaluations in two different labs at opposite ends of the world turned up a handful of unexpected issues, too. Igor Wallsosek in our German office reports back with a lot of Radeon HD 7850-related issues: NewTek’s LightWave crashes with 4x AA or higher, Autodesk’s 3ds Max crashes in DirectX mode, and the card is incapable of running StarCraft II at its stock clocks. It would be tempting to chalk all of that up to a bad sample, but we had problems with our 7850 as well. World of Warcraft was particularly unstable, requiring a restart after every crash. And sometimes our test bed simply wouldn’t boot with the 7850 installed. Then there’s the whole issue of texture quality issues on both of the new 7800s. Oof.
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Is this the same problem as the ones from the early days of the 6850? if so i might wait a few months or skip it altogether.

EDIT: added wait
 
What is the point of this? Why should we own such powerfull cards if only Battlefield 3 takes advantage of this kind of power? The rest of the games out there are just a bunch of shitty console ports...

Cheers,
André
 
I used to play WoW but gave that up when Star Wars:The Old Republic (SWTOR) came out and never looked back. I wonder how these new cards fare with SWTOR?
 
😵 why a thumbs down for my post, it clearly states (and shows) they were having problems with WoW on these cards. There is a reason they added wow to these benchmarks, cause a LOT of us play it! And right now, nvidia is still king for wow. (my gtx 465 plays wow better than my friends 6950).
 
On other sites with overclocked benchmarks the 7870 OC event beats 7970, while 7850 OC is beating 7870. No question about price/performance winners. But I will wait for nvidia's new cards this time just to see how they compare (thought I doubt we will see any good power consumption results from them - like always).
 
[citation][nom]scotty99[/nom]😵 why a thumbs down for my post, it clearly states (and shows) they were having problems with WoW on these cards.[/citation]
Both cards are still overkill for WoW, and only the 7850 had crashing issues.
 
I'm a Nvidia Enthusiast and I need to admit that these AMD cards are very much sweet!
As already stated: Very low power draw, great performance and price.

Congratz AMD!
 
Very Nice with the 7870, for a 250 buck card, they perform nearly 100% as well as the 400-450 dollar GeForce 580. I'm keeping a lookout for the 7870. Hope it pops at Singapore shops in a bit. Expect them to go cheap ya.
 
By the looks of things AMD might have the whole top to bottom line done before the first Kepler part comes out...Come on now Nvidia.
 
This is great and all, yes nice performance, good power usage and sound... BUT!

Gaming at 1920x1080 (which is a very very common resolution since HD Displays became the norm), I still have no issue with my Sapphire 5850, which clocks up to 950Mhz/4800Mhz.

It still plays every single game I run perfectly, the only exception being turning AA to 4x on some titles such as battlefield 3 and running metro at reasonable levels.

Even Crysis still falls to my 5850 at nuts quality levels no problem.. his paired to a crappy-for-gaming 1055t @ 3.8Ghz.

I was waiting to see the launch of 7870, as that was my preferred upgrade from 5850, but honestly, cant see why i will as there are no game I play that warrant what will probably be £250+ here.

I am better off replacing my Mobo and CPU with a p67 and i7 2600k for now and waiting on Nvidias release soon. Hopefully Games will stretch out a little more at 1920x1080.

PS.. Power consumption, for my whole rig, 3HDD, 2SSD, CrosshairsIV, 1055t @3.8Ghz-1.365v, 8GB DDR1600 7,7,7,20 750wCorsair PSU idles at 125W runs flat out 100% GPU (Furmark) and Cpu (Prime95) runs at just over 400W, I can live with that!
 
I keep wondering wtf wrong is 7900 series, it has a lot more raw power, it share the same GCN. 7950 is 28 SM, thats 40% extra shaders, then it got >50% more memory speed, yet it barely perform better than a 7870. Are engineers in 7900 dumb or AMD artificially limiting 7900 through drivers?
 
Well I admit to waiting for the Bulldozer and what a fizzer that was. You can understand by the tone of this article why companies like to keep things under wraps. I'm pretty sure AMD will iron out the bugs though. But at least they are giving us product, albeit on the pricey side.
 
[citation][nom]moricon[/nom]This is great and all, yes nice performance, good power usage and sound... BUT!Gaming at 1920x1080 (which is a very very common resolution since HD Displays became the norm), I still have no issue with my Sapphire 5850, which clocks up to 950Mhz/4800Mhz.It still plays every single game I run perfectly, the only exception being turning AA to 4x on some titles such as battlefield 3 and running metro at reasonable levels.Even Crysis still falls to my 5850 at nuts quality levels no problem.. his paired to a crappy-for-gaming 1055t @ 3.8Ghz.I was waiting to see the launch of 7870, as that was my preferred upgrade from 5850, but honestly, cant see why i will as there are no game I play that warrant what will probably be £250+ here.I am better off replacing my Mobo and CPU with a p67 and i7 2600k for now and waiting on Nvidias release soon. Hopefully Games will stretch out a little more at 1920x1080.PS.. Power consumption, for my whole rig, 3HDD, 2SSD, CrosshairsIV, 1055t @3.8Ghz-1.365v, 8GB DDR1600 7,7,7,20 750wCorsair PSU idles at 125W runs flat out 100% GPU (Furmark) and Cpu (Prime95) runs at just over 400W, I can live with that![/citation]


So? Are u suggesting that we dont move on to better tech. just coz "we can live without it"?
 
I usually never comment on the articles, but I must agree with an earlier post from Alidan. I would guess that 90 percent of people on here are running single screens running at 1080. We want to know what BF3 benches at Ultra not high. Nobody cares about high scores, everybody wants ultra. If we cared about middling settings we probably wouldn't be reading about cutting edge hardware. Not that I don't appreciate all of the hard work that goes into these articles, but tell the people what they want to know.
 
The 7870 looks like an excellent card for a great price. Very impressed by the benchmarks for the card. Looks like I have to explain to the wife why I bought another video card :)
 
Just another review on Tom's Radeons...
Don't even want to read about just that one brand all the time!
They completely change their models every coupla months, to confuse.
I don't care, I'll never use a Radeon.
 
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