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[comp@ddict]

HD5850 price - 259$
HD5870 price - 379$

HD4870 X2 price - ~ 379$
GTX295 price - ~ 549$

No guesses who wins the best budget card award....

 

[desiibond]

^^none. best budget card would be 9400GT

 

[Krow]

^Lol! Pretty true!

 

[comp@ddict]

So you are buying it from KMD now ? Congratulations in Advance

As soon as it comes up on newegg...i'm coming baby....lolz...that was for my gf....

^^none. best budget card would be 9400GT

In terms of price-performance?

 

[desiibond]

^^ That would be GTX260????
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HD5850 and HD5870 are pouring out. look here:

*techpowerup.com/

 

[amitash]

@comp@ddict: are u sure u wouldnt consider waiting for the nvidia gt3xx series? They might be better

 

[ratedrsuperstar]

best time to buy a 4870/4890 here

 

[comp@ddict]

@comp@ddict: are u sure u wouldnt consider waiting for the nvidia gt3xx series? They might be better

Nah,...the wait is endlesss.....

 

[desiibond]

^^yes. after nvidia's GTX3xx, ATI maycome up with a mid range card that when CFed will beat high end GT3xx (may be) blah blah blah. And then nVidia may come up with another one that can beat the CF setup at a lower price and then ATI may come up ........

 

[comp@ddict]

Sapphire HD5870 review(23rd September reviewed with Ati Catalyst Cypress Drivers)
HIS HD5870 review(28th September with Hotfix for the Video Drivers)

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- We see increase in fps in all resolutions

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- We see increase in fps in all resolutions

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- We see increase in fps in all resolutions

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- We see increase in fps in all resolutions

MAX SETTINGS
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We do see anywhere between 1-5 fps increase in all games and resolutions in the same card, and it's drivers are not yet properly released...wow!

 

[Krow]

nVidia GT300's Fermi architecture unveiled: 512 cores, up to 6GB GDDR5

GPU specifications
This is the meat part you always want to read fist. So, here it how it goes:

* 3.0 billion transistors
* 40nm TSMC
* 384-bit memory interface
* 512 shader cores [renamed into CUDA Cores]
* 32 CUDA cores per Shader Cluster
* 1MB L1 cache memory [divided into 16KB Cache - Shared Memory]
* 768KB L2 unified cache memory
* Up to 6GB GDDR5 memory
* Half Speed IEEE 754 Double Precision

Read on.....

 

[topgear]

^^ Thanks! That's what I was waiting for - A new performance war by the green demon

BTW, here is the HD5850 Review from guru3d - this link was found by our member asigh though
*www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-5850-review-crossfire/1

 

[Krow]

Some more reviews of the same beast.

Tech Report
*techreport.com/articles.x/17652

Well, there you have it. The Radeon HD 5850 manages to outshine the fastest single-GPU GeForce card overall while costing less, drawing less power, and producing less noise. We wouldn't be surprised to see Nvidia cut prices in the near future, but in any case, the 5850 is hands-down the second-fastest single-GPU graphics card on the market.

Anandtech
*www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3650

When you take the Cypress based Radeon HD 5870 and cut out 2 SIMDs and 15% of the clock speed to make a Radeon HD 5850, on paper you have a card 23% slower. In practice, that difference is only between 10% and 15% depending on the resolution. What’s not a theory is AMD’s pricing: they may have cut off 15% of the performance to make the 5850, but they have also cut the price by well more than 15%; 31% to be precise.

The result of this is clear: the 5870 is the fastest single-GPU card, and the 5850 is the value alternative.

Tom's Hardware
*www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-5850,2433.html

With the Radeon HD 3800-series, ATI settled for second place right out of the gate. The Radeon HD 4800-series was a staggering improvement, catapulting ATI right onto Nvidia’s heels. It was a second-place finish, yet again, but fast enough to outperform the GeForce GTX 260, surprise Nvidia, and force the company to restructure its prices. Now, with the Radeon HD 5800-series, ATI has two cards that are faster than its competitor’s quickest single-GPU board. My, how times have changed.

Legit Reviews
*www.legitreviews.com/article/1097/14/

The ATI Radeon HD 5850 that we highlighted here today might be smaller and cost less than the Radeon HD 5870, but that doesn't mean that it isn't still a great gaming graphics card. The 1440 stream processors operating at a core clock frequency of 725MHz are still more than enough horse power to play all the latest game titles. The Radeon HD 5850 will be the DirectX 11 card to have for overclockers looking for the biggest bang for the buck.

PC Perspective
*pcper.com/article.php?aid=788&type=expert

AMD has built a product that truly stands out from the competition with the Radeon HD 5800-series of cards. Though we have already reviewed the HD 5870, it and the new HD 5850 are really going to put NVIDIA in a bad position this coming holiday if they can’t somehow magically deliver a new architecture by years-end.

PC Games Hardware
*www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,696250/Radeon-HD-5850-reviewed-The-DirectX-11-bargain/Reviews/

Like it has been the case in our review of the Radeon HD 5870, we can have come to a clear conclusion in matters of the Radeon HD 5850: In games the card is slightly faster than the GTX 285, which currently costs about 270 Euros. Depending on the game the DX 11 is a bit slower, but on the other hand there are game where it beats the Geforce noticeably. Furthermore AMD's 200 Euros card isn't just cheaper, but also offers several new features: Besides Sparse-Grid Supersampling and Ati Eyefinity multi-monitoring the HD 5800 series offers DirectX 11 hardware support. Furthermore the low power consumption and the low noise in idle mode are positive, too. The 4.0 Sone on workload on the other hand are not goos - here the cost saving cuts on the cooling become obvious.

Hot Hardware
*hothardware.com/articles/AMD-ATI-Radeon-HD-5850-Performance-Review/

HD 5850 through an assortment of tests, a distinct trend emerged. Save for a few instances (namely in 3DMark Vantage and L4D), the Radeon HD 5850 performed right on par with or just ahead of the GeForce GTX 285. The Radeon HD 5850 was also significantly faster than the Radeon HD 4890, but it trailed the more powerful and more expensive cards, like the Radeon HD 4870 X2, GeForce GTX 295, and of course the Radeon HD 5870.

 

[comp@ddict]

Now,,, who says HD5850 isn't the new budget winner????

 

[Krow]

^Now I can back you, since we have the reviews in sight.

 

[topgear]

HD5850 is the winner in Rs. 15-22K single GPU Price Range ( read it pwns GTX285 )

BTW, waiting eagerly for Nvidia GT300 and ATI's HD5770 and HD5670 without PCI-e power connector HD5770 and HD5670 just a wish though - but IMO they will outperform Nvidia 9xxx, ATI HD4850 and HD5770 might even GTX 260

 

[comp@ddict]

^^^^^^^^

HD5700 series come on October 12th guys!!! And it's performance will be better than HD4870 and maybe better than HD4890/GTX260 too.

 

[j1n M@tt]

^^any idea abt its price range??

 

[comp@ddict]

149 to 199$

 

[topgear]

^^^^^^^^

HD5700 series come on October 12th guys!!! And it's performance will be better than HD4870 and maybe better than HD4890/GTX260 too.

Thanks for the news buddy