[Alastair]

So guys. I would like your help with a matter.

My two Sapphire Fury's have arrived. Before I retire my 6850's I have decided that they shall go out swinging. I am going to try and take as many 6850 HW records on HW Bot as is possible. And thus my problem!

The current dual crossfire 6850 record on HW Bot for heaven bench extreme. Is 2002 points. That score was made with 1046MHz on the cores and 1236 on the memory. Driver version for that test was 11.6.

I can run the bench at 1080 and 1250 on 15.5, but my scores are no where NEAR close. The best I have managed is in the high 1600's. How the hell am I loosing on a purely GPU based test when my GPU's are the exact same yet running at a superior speed!?!

 

[masteratarms]

@Alastair It will also tell you which drivers the submission was using. I found 8_861_Asus_Vista_Win7_WHQL gave me a couple of hundred over the latest cats. Also RAM timings, CPU tweaks may play a roll. Maybe OS optimisation was used (cutting services out).

 

[Alastair]

I checked the allowed tweakes in the rules section. You can use Driver wizardry to disable tessellation and lower detail levels at a driver level and run the tests. It's considered legal on HW Bot. And made sense since even with faster cards I was still scoring 400 points less than the current heaven record holder. I broke the record with a 2020 point heaven run on Thursday night. But I forgot to save the file. But I can do it again. And will be tonight.

Seems my 6850's will retire swinging after all!

 

[Ceadderman]

Nice.

~Ceadder

 

[Alastair]

Well there it is. 1 HW record down. A few more to go! thumb.gif Go! Go! Barts!
http://hwbot.org/submission/2964175_alastair_s1d_unigine_heaven___xtreme_preset_2x_radeon_hd_6850_2045.59_dx11_marks?recalculate=true

 

[473809]

Hi everyone, I own a 6850 Gigabyte. Can anybody tell me which version of the driver is the most stable for this graphic card?

 

[473809]

Quote:

Originally Posted by coloNEiLu

Hi everyone, I own a 6850 Gigabyte. Can anybody tell me which version of the driver is the most stable for this graphic card?

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[masteratarms]

http://uk.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3630#dl

Or try latest catalysts, lucky for you its still supported by latest AMD drivers.

 

[473809]

Thank you for responding me. I saw on the Internet that people recommend the versions 11.7, 12.1 and 12.3, the ones newer than those are bugged(12.4/5/6/7). I know that the last version for the 6k series is 12.7. What's newer than 12.7 is optimized for 7k series and so on. Are those 3 versions that I mentioned stable or bugged? I don't know what to say about the 8.9 version..

 

[Alastair]

Quote:

Originally Posted by coloNEiLu

Thank you for responding me. I saw on the Internet that people recommend the versions 11.7, 12.1 and 12.3, the ones newer than those are bugged(12.4/5/6/7). I know that the last version for the 6k series is 12.7. What's newer than 12.7 is optimized for 7k series and so on. Are those 3 versions that I mentioned stable or bugged? I don't know what to say about the 8.9 version..

AMD still supports the 6800 series with their latest drivers. I am on 15.5 at the moment. Don't try find legacy support for a product that isn't Considered legacy yet. 12.7 was the last optimised driver for HD4XXX.

Just use the latest drivers and be happy.

Don't fix what ain't broke.

 

[Sildur]

Recently picked up a HD6870 from Asus for 30bucks, since it fits the cheapo build I'm making for a friend quite well.

Thought to overclock it a bit, getting past that 1ghz barrier took quite some voltage, got it somewhat stable at 1.245v.
Whereas I'm rock solid on 980mhz/1130mhz@1.175v so decided to stay there for now.
Even on such a rather mild OC the card gets it job still quite well done, can't complain about performance for 30bucks I guess.

Whole system is:
MSI h81m-p33
Intel Pentium g3258@4.3ghz
HD6870 from Asus
2x4GB from Crucial
Windows 10 Pro x64

 

[Alastair]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sildur

Recently picked up a HD6870 from Asus for 30bucks, since it fits the cheapo build I'm making for a friend quite well.

Thought to overclock it a bit, getting past that 1ghz barrier took quite some voltage, got it somewhat stable at 1.245v.
Whereas I'm rock solid on 980mhz/1130mhz@1.175v so decided to stay there for now.
Even on such a rather mild OC the card gets it job still quite well done, can't complain about performance for 30bucks I guess.

Whole system is:
MSI h81m-p33
Intel Pentium g3258@4.3ghz
HD6870 from Asus
2x4GB from Crucial
Windows 10 Pro x64

Go for the 1.3V or nothing.

Ran my 6850's at that voltage for 2 years at 90C at 1GHz and then another year waterblocked at 50C at 1050 Mhz.

 

[Sildur]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alastair

Go for the 1.3V or nothing.

Ran my 6850's at that voltage for 2 years at 90C at 1GHz and then another year waterblocked at 50C at 1050 Mhz.

Hmm, gonna think about it. Didn't want to kill the card instantly, also not used to AMD. More of the Nvidia guy here, currently running a gtx770 in my system.

EDIT: At 1.3v I could reach 1030mhz stable

 

[Alastair]

Looks like we have reached the end of our journey guys.

But it has been a grand one! HD5XXX and HD6XXX are now legacy products. It has been a good run with my 5770's and 6850's. Probably two of the best value purchases I have ever made.

 

[Sildur]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alastair

Looks like we have reached the end of our journey guys.

But it has been a grand one! HD5XXX and HD6XXX are now legacy products. It has been a good run with my 5770's and 6850's. Probably two of the best value purchases I have ever made.

That HD6870@1ghz will still be a big upgrade for my friend with the slowest Intel HD graphics card available. (Intel Pentium n3520, with hd baytrail). And might serve him for a few years, on the lower side of the graphic options tho.

Also wondering if "cocktail drivers" will be a thing for HD5XXX and HD6XXX series.

 

[Forde3654Eire]

Just got the news yeah...

So Crimson is out, and I more or less anticipated that AMD would drop support for HD 5000 / 6000... but 7000 as well? Bit of a stretch seeing as they are GCN cards...

This begs the question of... as of now, which is the best driver for HD 5000 / 6000? I have the latest 15.7.1 on a fresh install of Windows 7... I'm not particularly interested in the Crimson Beta made available, worried about potential problems with a brand new release... and I don't see anything in there that RadeonPro can't do.

 

[Sildur]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Forde3654Eire

Just got the news yeah...

So Crimson is out, and I more or less anticipated that AMD would drop support for HD 5000 / 6000... but 7000 as well? Bit of a stretch seeing as they are GCN cards...

This begs the question of... as of now, which is the best driver for HD 5000 / 6000? I have the latest 15.7.1 on a fresh install of Windows 7... I'm not particularly interested in the Crimson Beta made available, worried about potential problems with a brand new release... and I don't see anything in there that RadeonPro can't do.

The crimson beta driver is basicly beta 15.11.1 with the new control panel. Such a bad move, ending support with a beta driver, the least they could do is release a proper whql driver.
Btw one of the devs of the leshcat drivers is currently checking if modded drivers are possible.

 

[Sildur]

Bit of a nooby question, got some spare heatsinks that would fit on the memory chips... Was wondering if cooling the mem chips affects the max memory clock you can go for since you cant really change the voltage amount for them.

 

[Alastair]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sildur

Bit of a nooby question, got some spare heatsinks that would fit on the memory chips... Was wondering if cooling the mem chips affects the max memory clock you can go for since you cant really change the voltage amount for them.

i dunno if it was due to the temps being better on the core and therefore the memory bus was more stable, or if it was the fact that I added the heatsinks to my 6850's ram but went from 1200mhz to 1250.

 

[mazdaboi]

Been a long time since I've posted in this section. Still have my Gigabyte HD 6850OC (OC to 820mhz from 775mhz factory), and just built a new Budget gaming pc and this bad boy went in the build. Amazing how my FX 6300 does paired with this. Running majority of games on High settings and 1080 with 50-60fps solid. good enough for me. Contemplated on getting an R7 250 but its almost the same as performance goes.

Im back in the Game!