Quote:6850 is SAME price as 7750Only if you're buying a second-hand (used) card.
IcemanSR Wrote:Only up in price on 7750 is LOW power consumption
* Power consumption so low that even the ultra low-end HTPC cards look like power guzzlers. The HD7750 consumes less power than even the HD5570 GDDR3.
<5W @ idle, ~1W @ long idle, <45W @ full load
* It also has features like the VCE (better than Intel's QuickSync), EQAA and Fast HDMI that the HD6850 lacks.
* Anisotropic filtering quality is also much better than the HD6000 series. The horrible shimmering artifacts are finally fixed.
* Users also experience better responsiveness (less lag) with the new HD7xxx series of cards.
* The 'good old' HD6850 is a long (2x the length of the HD7750) and fat (uses 2 slots) card (needs a much bigger case with optimal cooling)
* Finally, the HD6850 it's 'overkill' for emulation and not everyone plays modern PC MMO FPS games
IcemanSR Wrote:One gotta be Einstein to make super rocketed drivers to make 7750 to work as 6850
The HD7750 is already a much better performer (than the HD6850) in compute (OpenCL / DirectCompute), tessellation, video encoding / processing. It has more than enough power for PCSX2 and Dolphin @ 1080p / 4xIR + VSync.