1. Introduction 2. HIS HD 7770 GHz Edition IceQ X Turbo 1GB 3. HIS HD 7850 IceQ 2GB 4. Sapphire HD 7850 Dual-X 1GB 5. Testing Methodology 6. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage 7. Synthetic: 3DMark 11 8. Synthetic: 3DMark 9. Synthetic: Unigine Heaven 10. Synthetic: Unigine Valley 11. Gaming: Battlefield 3 12. Gaming: Crysis 2 13. Gaming: Dirt 3 14. Gaming: Hitman Absolution 15. Gaming: Metro 2033 16. Gaming: Sleeping Dogs 17. Technical: Thermal Dynamics 18. Technical: Acoustics Performance 19. Technical: Power Consumption 20. Technical: HIS HD 7770 GHz Edition IceQ X Turbo 1GB Overclocking 21. Technical: HIS HD 7850 IceQ 2GB Overclocking 22. Technical: Sapphire HD 7850 Dual-X 1GB Overclocking 23. Closing Thoughts 24. View All Pages

AMD has affirmed its position in the mid-range graphics market with the successful Radeon HD 77xx and 78xx GPUs. With so many individual graphics cards to choose from, how do you decide which is best? Cooler, factory overclock, VRAM and display outputs are all valid reasons for picking one card over another.

Which mid-range AMD graphics card do you buy? Is 2GB of VRAM worth the extra cost, in comparison to 1GB models? How do current generation models compare to previous generation cards? We aim to answer these questions by pushing a 1GB and 2GB 7850, a 7770 GHz Edition, and a competitively priced option from AMD’s HD 6000 series – the 6870 – through our barrage of tests.

So which of these mid-range AMD cards is worthy of our recommendation? Read on to find out.

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