“(Referring to HD 6850) GTX 460 1GB performance at GTX 460 768MB pricing, and with GTS 450 power draw. Really, what’s not to love? Tessellation performance has improved, power draw has dropped and heat has also dropped while keeping noise levels the same. Then there’s the fact that it performs pretty much in line with a HD 5850 for less.” TweakTown "Editor's Choice"

“AMD has the better product as far as I'm concerned. I'm stoked about this launch for a couple of reasons, the main one being the $/FPS ratio. One of the largest bonuses of AMD's recent cards to me has been power consumption. There's just no comparison. The HD 6870's TDP is 151W, and based on our testing, that seems about right.NVIDIA requires gamers to use two of its cards for multi-monitor gaming, so the fact that AMD continues to let gamers purchase an affordable card and power three monitors off of it is fantastic.” - Techgage "Editior's Choice"

“The new Radeon HD 6800 series cards performed very well throughout our entire battery of tests. Generally speaking, the Radeon HD 6870 performs about on par with the GeForce GTX 470. We also witnessed excellent dual-GPU scaling when running the new Radeon HD 6800 cards in CrossFire mode. One word aptly describes AMD's latest Radeon HD 6800 series GPUs: refinement. To that end we'd say the company has succeeded masterfully. Gamers can enjoy virtually all the performance, but with lower power consumption and better support for DX11 features like tessellation and seemingly better multi-GPU scaling. What we're looking at here with the Radeon HD 6800 series is a smaller, more efficient graphics engine, pushing higher clock speeds and throughput from less silicon area. It's a great foundation to build from actually." - Hothardware.com "Recommended"

“It is quite clear that the HD6870 is an excellent GPU that can easily take on the GTX460 in the mid-range market. The HIS Radeon HD6870 is a solid mid-range video card that lets users play most games at high resolutions and quality settings. We are proud to award it the" - Bjorn3D "Seal of Approval"

"It's really a budget gamer and if you're not gaming then there are dozens of cards which will run your desktop and HD movie needs, but if you are looking for a 3D compatable HTPC card then this could be right up your street!" - Overclock3D - "Bronze Award"

"The higher frequencies and the different architecture optimizations are here to counterbalance that. Furthermore, the new tesselation unit is also a success and in the benchmarks the do better than the 5870 !  The 6870 is really here and announced the new card is allready the best choice in this price range. Not only for the performance/price/consumption ratio but also for the features with UVD 3 and EyeFinity. For all this reasons, we gave a gold award to the Radeon HD 6870 a fantastic anwser fo the only really valuable cards of the chameleon brand." - Comptoir Hardware "Gold Award"

"The HD6870 is a clear performance leader and development team who have managed to achieve high levels of scaling under Crossfire conditions. In our testing the HIS HD6870 was always at the top of the pack, sometimes leading the way, and on occasion just slightly behind the overclocked GTX460 SLI configurations...We like this card, the pricing is good and performance out of the box is killer. While it isn’t breaking new performance records, it is able to handle overclocked GTX460′s while offering excellent scaling in CrossFireX if you fancy an upgrade later." KitGuru - "Must Have Award"

"Unquestionably both the HIS HD6850 and HIS HD6870 comfortably beat the cards they are intended to replace. The HD6850 is on a par with the HD5830 and the HD6870 conclusively is at the top of all of our tests. Mid-range cards are something we've always loved...Overclocking enabling huge performance increases for zero cost." - Overclock 3D "Bronze Award"

"If you need one takeaway from the introduction of the Radeon HD 6850 and HD 6870, it should be this: the new GPUs offer everything the Radeon 5000-series do, and they add the cherry on top with extra features" - HEXUS "Recommended Product"

"In this case we compared Radeona HD 6870 1GB to company overlocked GeForce GTX 460 1GB OC 800MHz/1000MHz, because both cards cost quite the same. Advantage of Radeona HD 6870 was very clear, Radeon won in 11 from 14 games in 1680x1050and in 10 from 14 games in 1920x120, having adequately on average 10% and 13% better results than the competitor." - In4.pl "Recommended"

"HIS's architectural improvements have not been to the core architecture.  Another field of advancement is the display output logic which has been expanded on again, giving AMD even more margin against NVIDIA here. Support for DisplayPort 1.2 allows up to six displays connected to a single card and enables daisy chaining and hub functionality for easier monitor hook up.HDMI 1.4 includes support for Blu-ray 3D titles which seems to be more of a features list bullet point than a real need-to-have feature at this time.  Nice performance increase in this price segment" - TechpowerUp " Recommended Award"

"HIS also managed to reduce power consumption even further, boosting performance per Watt some more.  Improvement in performance per Watt" - TechpowerUp - "Recommended Award"

“There were a few tests that matched the Radeon HD 6870 with the GeForce GTX 470, and then there were tests that pegged it against the 1GB GeForce GTX 460. Most times it required a heavily overclocked GTX 460 to find similar competition....occasionally competes with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470, and easily outperforms the 1GB GTX 460. Radeon HD 6870 shines as a solid gaming product.” - Benchmark Reviews

“The Radeon 6850 offers plenty of performance for today's games. This product simply makes really good sense. It will bring a lot of value to the table but will also allow you to play your games at 1920x1200 extremely well. From a price point of view that makes this product really nice. The two cards tested today run beautifully, seem faster than the reference GTX 460 cards and can even match the GTX 470. The cards neither are noisy or running hot and the overall game performance really is spot on.” - Guru3D "Recommended"

“AMD’s HD 6870 and HD 6850 are two cards that actually managed to exceed our expectations in nearly every conceivable way. HD 6870 has the ability to significantly outdistance the GTX 460 1GB at nearly every single resolution and IQ setting we used which came as a complete shock considering its price hovers around the $240 mark. In our opinion, the HD 6850 provides an excellent alternative to the GTX 460 768MB and has the ability to compete directly against the more expensive GTX 460 1GB. You can count the HD 6870 and HD 6850 as a kind of security net for future upgrades. With the HD 6870 and HD 6850, AMD has proven they can deliver evolutionary products that hit all the right points while remaining highly competitive performance-wise.”- Hardware Canucks - "Dame Good Value"

"AMD has worked hard to reduce idle power consumption and is possibly the most planet-frriendly high and GPU ever... Of all the really high end GPUs, the HD 5870 remains our favourite." - TeachRadar PC Buuying Guide - "Recommended Award"

"delivered a playable 30fps when we added 8x anti-aliasing to the same test-slightly faster than Nvidia's dearer GTX 470...79°C is fine, and in our test rig the peak power draw of 284W was lower than every Nvidia card this month." - PC Pro "Labs Winner"

"HIS HD 5770 IceQ5 constructed with the pace of games.it rather favorable. So they carried the price performance winner in this comparison test like this" - ComputerBILD "Price-Performance Winner"

"This should give you an idea of just how much of a threat NVIDIA thinks the new Radeon HD 6870 is.  Radeon HD 6870, is the best mid to high-end graphics cards in the market right now... we feel that premium is justified because of its better overall performance and also the new features it offers." - Hardwardzone

"the new cards are off to a good start, offering good bang for buck, something that Radeons have come to be known for. The HD 6850 is not too shabby itself and is a really decent offering too if you can’t stretch your budget to meet the HD 6870." - Hardwardzone