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[comp@ddict]

I was actually hoping for a 1200SP 256bit HD5700 series instead....that with 900Mhz core and 1250Mhz memory wud beat the GTX285....but oh well...HD5850 is THE CARD now..

 

[desiibond]

btw, EVGA and nvidia are going to release a unique graphics card. it's a dual GPU card. combines GeForce GTX 200 series GPU with a GeForce GTS 250 GPU. this is unique in a way that GTS250 will be doing PhysX and GTX200 series chip will be doing graphics acceleartion. reports say that GTS250 will have 512MB memory and GTX200 will have 896MB of memory.

this will be the card to get for games that take full advantage of physx acceleration.

 

[Krow]

^Hmmm... That sounds nice. No need to SLI then.

 

[comp@ddict]

But their combined power consumption wud be outrageous(GTX260 - 160W + GTS250 - 140 = 300W)....at that much wattage....a HD5850 CFx wud be better(and less power hungry too)..

 

[Krow]

^What is the power consumption for HD 5850 according to you? Please don't tell its 19W. Please support your claim with some links too.

 

[comp@ddict]

Here...
*www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/HD_5850/28.html

*xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5870_7.html#sect0

*www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-5850-review-crossfire/9

 

[Krow]

*www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-5850-review-crossfire/9

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  [*]A second card requires you to add another 170 Watts. You need a 650+ Watt power supply unit if you use it in a high-end system. That power supply needs to have (in total accumulated) at least 55~60 Amps available on the +12 volts rails.[/FONT]

So, if you anyway need a 650W+ system for HD5850 CFX, how does that make it much better than the EVGA+nvidia card? With such setups, anyway you are going to need a high-end PSU, which of course can handle both cards you mentioned. Also, I think its better not to comment on the power consumption of an unreleased card.

*www.legitreviews.com/article/1097/12/
*www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/1097/power_consumption.jpg


This link shows a little bit of a different story, don't you think?

 

[vamsi_krishna]

Unigine Heaven - DX11 benchmark


The Unigine Corporation has already released the Sanctuary and Tropics benchmarks. Now a benchmark for DirectX 11 graphics cards is offered, too. The Unigine Engine based Heaven benchmark also offers a fallback to DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 so the test is interesting for all PC users. In the benchmark a floating fantasy world with flying islands is displayed.

Features of the Heaven Benchmark
• Native support for OpenGL, DirectX 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 (Compute Shader, Shader Model 5, Hardware Tessellation)
• Advanced SSAO (Screen Space Ambient Occlusion)
• Volumetric Cumulonimbus Clouds
• Dynamic simulation of the moving environment
• Ati Eyefinity support
• Modes that let the users fly or walk through the environment

Heaven Benchmark system requirements
• .Net framework 2.0
• OpenAL
• Tessellation: DirectX 11 graphics card
• Graphics card (minimum): Ati Radeon HD 2xxx or Nvidia Geforce 7xxx
• Graphics card (recommended): Nvidia Geforce 8800 or Ati Radeon HD 4800
• 256 MiByte VRAM

Download it from here.

 

[comp@ddict]

WHat story does it show?? That HD5850 X2 pawns GTX295 yet consuming lesser power??? Only this....and I dunno how a GTX260 or GTX275 + GTS 250 will ever outperform even a HD5870 alone(remember, the GTS250 is for PhysX, which the world knows only a "handful" of games support)

...but yes...lets wait for the card to release...

 

[Krow]

^Lesser power on idle you mean? Load power consumption is lesser for the GTX295. And comparing a last generation card to one of this one is not fair. Let nvidia's counterpart arrive and then compare it to HD5850. Please don't start talking about PhysX unless you have played games regularly on PhysX.

 

[topgear]

Here you guys go with real performance that DX11 GPU's can offer with DX11 ( Unigine Heaven - DX11 benchmark ) This is a benchmark of HD5770 though

*www.hardwaresecrets.com/imageview.php?image=20284
*www.hardwaresecrets.com/imageview.php?image=20285
From :
*www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/845/10

But I think it's little bit odd coz at 1680*1050 HD4870 wins which we know is neck to neck with GTX 260 but GTX 260 performs way lesser.

 

[spikygv]

^^ hd4870 slower than 4850 @ 1920x1080 ? i doubt the accuracy of these benchies.

 

[comp@ddict]

^^is it the 512MB HD4870, then there mite be a possibility(if its HD4850 1GB)...only a possibility.

 

[spikygv]

fair point. but most games will give better fps with 4870 512mb than 4850 1gb @ full hd.
then again , this might be a weird case.

As far as what i've seen goes , hardware secrets smps evaluation methods are gr8 but their other hardware testing methods are less than reputable.
Once, they had tested a fairly new card with a stupid P4 proccy.

 

[topgear]

Yup, their PSU reviewing method is some of the bset but the gfx testing method is mediocre but it's the 1st DX11 benchmark anyway

 

[desiibond]

Sapphire HD 5750 Vapor-X 1 GB Pictured

The HD 5750 Vapor-X includes a uniquely designed cooler utilizing Sapphire’s “Vapor Chamber Technology” and improved heatsink design for superior airflow and much cooler operating temperatures.While exact specs are still unclear, we suspect it will be stock clocked like most Vapor-X models, including 1GB of GDDR5 memory and a core speed of 700MHz with memory at 1150MHz.

*img197.imageshack.us/img197/9974/85ae.jpg

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Read On

 

[comp@ddict]

When the heck will Sapphire release HD5850 Vapor-X???? Come on sapphire...

 

[topgear]

WoW! that looks awesome

 

[desiibond]

And here comes HD5870 VaporX

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*img197.imageshack.us/img197/8887/97b.jpg

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*img203.imageshack.us/img203/6162/sapphire5870vaporx3.jpg

*img12.imageshack.us/img12/9593/sapphire5870vaporx4.jpg

*img7.imageshack.us/img7/7666/sapphire5870vaporx6.jpg

 

[topgear]

That's looks like huge powerful beast
BTW, they should continue this design to their HD8570 X VaporX series in the future - then it would be real monster