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Street Fighter 4 doesn’t necessarily push a graphics card to the limits, but it is a good benchmark to gauge the overall performance. This test is run at default settings to show the best scaling possible.
The HD 6800 series cards at stock perform right were they should in the Street Fighter benchmark. This puts the HD 6870 ahead of the HD 5830 and the HD 6870 behind the HD 5870. After overclocking the core and memory, the cards perform considerably better and the 6870 OC'ed even manages to achieve higher frame rates than the HD 5870.
The difference in performance of the ASUS ARES and two 6800 cards in CrossFire is also very narrow in this test.
The Diamond HD 6870 XOC graphics card performs very well in Street Fighter IV and with the factory overclock is able to compete with the HD 5870 without need for any additional overclocking.
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