Only two days after HIS RadeonTM HD 6850 & 6870 launch, HIS has already earned reputation and received a number of honorable awards from the major media all around the world.

“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.....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

“The Radeon HD 6850 is the best sub-$200 performance we’ve ever seen, and the lowest power envelope we’ve ever seen it at. Considering all these factors, we have to give both video cards a Gold [H] Editor's Choice award.” ------ Hardocp

“It is quite clear that the HD6870 is an excellent GPU that can easily take on the GTX460 in the mid-range market.” ------bjorn3d

“We have no problems recommending it for anyone who plans to upgrade from a HD5830 or slower card.”
“We are proud to award it the Bjorn3D Seal of Approval” ------bjorn3d

“AMD’s HD 6870 and HD 6850 are … actually managed to exceed our expectations in nearly every conceivable way.” ------ Hardware Canucks


“The new Radeon HD 6800 series cards performed very well throughout our entire battery of tests.” ------Hot Hardware

“One word aptly describes AMD's latest Radeon HD 6800 series GPUs: refinement. AMD's goal was to drive cost and power consumption out of their architecture, along with enhancing its capabilities, features and image quality in next-generation DX11 gaming engines.  To that end we'd say the company has succeeded masterfully.” ------Hot Hardware




“The Radeon 6850 offers plenty of performance for today's games. We feel it's sweet spot gaming wise is for gamers with a monitor up-to roughly 1600x1200, even 1920x1200.” ------ Guru 3D

“The Radeon HD 6870…bring a lot of value to the table but will also allow you to play your games at 1920x1200 extremely well.” ------ Guru 3D

"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




HD 6870 – “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

HD6850 – "HIS also managed to reduce power consumption even further, boosting performance per Watt some more.  Improvement in performance per Watt" ------TechPowerUp