[Review Roundup] ATI Radeon HD5850 gives the best value for your money

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The recently-launched ATI Radeon HD5850 has been getting rave reviews from all and sundry, and we felt it was only appropriate to showcase a roundup of the reviews. All of the sites listed below have given it great marks and the conclusion is almost the same: this is the best card around in its price range ($299, or Rs. 15,000, in the US), the best value for your money, and something that Nvidia isn’t going to have a reply to for at least a few months.
 
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[sabarishwar]

cost is gud....and worth

 

[x3060]

i think i will upgrade from my 4670 to this when the price falls

 

[Krow]

Some more reviews of the same beast. Already posted in another thread, but posting here so that more people view this one.

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.

 

[topgear]

^^ Thanks for the review Links

 

[Krow]

^You are welcome buddy!