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We've got a few cards in our lineup today including the HD 6850, reference clocked HD 6870, HD 6950 and for NVIDIA we've got the GTX 560 Ti from MSI.

Let's get started!

3DMark 11

Version and / or Patch Used: 1.0
Developer Homepage: http://www.futuremark.com
Product Homepage: http://www.3dmark.com/3dmark11/
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3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world's most popular benchmark. Designed to measure your PC's gaming performance 3DMark 11 makes extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 is the best way to consistently and reliably test DirectX 11 under game-like loads.

Straight away we can see that the performance of the HIS HD 6870 is very strong with performance coming very close to that HD 6950.