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Darkest of Days puts the player in historic battles to ensure the survival of key figures from the past. It is a very interesting concept and the use of real life conflicts keeps the title engaging. The in-game options does not allow PhysX to be disabled, so it can often favor NVIDIA graphics cards over those from ATI.
The 6800 series graphics cards performed great against the competition, but Darkest of Days has notoriously bad support for SLI and CrossFire, so the 6850/6870 CrossFire performance suffered.
The Diamond HD 6870 XOC put up a good showing and was only slightly slower than the 970MHz HD 6870.
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Nice job, AMD.
And it was a nice review too, I read it completely.
Great crossfire scaling too
Two things that I really dislike about the cards though.
1. A single crossfire bridge. Obviously people need a reason to still buy the 58xx series over these great price/performance monsters but if they really are the 57xx successor they should still have two bridges. The 5770 rebadge to 6770 will likely see most models with two crossfire bridges. Poor choice IMO on their part.
2. Overclocking. With clocks already so high overclocking really suffers. Hopefully the 69xx will fare better in that department. The 68xx isnt bad at overclocking but just average.
I have a Storm Scout, so the 5870 doesn't fit in my case because it's too long, I'd have to mod it. If the 6870 is smaller than the 5870 and will fit in my case without modding, I'll buy two right now haha.
Thanks