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Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 Flex Video Card Review
Author: Will West
Published: Wednesday, February 23, 2011
3DMark Vantage
3DMark Vantage is a full DirectX 10 compliant synthetic benchmark designed to test the DirectX 10 abilities of your video card. After the benchmark completes you are given a report card of the performance and have the option to submit the results to Futuremark where they can be ranked against others with similar hardware
The testing was done with the default performance setting for all of the cards to give an idea where each ones stands in the GPU line up.
The Radeon HD 6870 falls to the back of the pack in Vantage, but that score is still very impressive. Now let's move on to see what a DX11 benchmark might hold for the Radeon HD 6870.