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Nic wrote:

sweet it fits... and since the price of that went up have you seen any info on the 5850

Indeed I have. 1440SP, price about $249-$299

Am thinking of an XFX XXX edition myself

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

Bell wrote:

Am thinking of an XFX XXX edition myself

say hi $499

I'll wait a month myself and cash the 20% price drops.

Price keeps creeping up, I had an argument on the OC forum about pricing that spanned about 10 pages .  Come to think of it, pre oc cards are a bit of a waste, I did have a go with a FTW edition 285 which did manange a higher OC than the stock but nothing major.

Am very interested in the performance figures the 5870x2 will pull, and wonder what Nvidia are thinking right now, surely the 300 can at best hope to match what we are hearing of the 5800.

Hmm ... I wonder what the difference in performance between the top two 5000 cards is going to be. I mean, what will one have that the other doesn't that causes the price jump?

Finray wrote:

CapnNismo wrote:

Hmm ... I wonder what the difference in performance between the top two 5000 cards is going to be. I mean, what will one have that the other doesn't that causes the price jump?

I'm gonna say more memory/faster memory/more output slots.

Apart from that I can't see much else they could put in it, unless one was more 'budget build' orientated.

SP count 1440 vs 1600, different memory and core clockspeeds. We are looking at ~15-20% slower speed (my own guess).

edit: wait did you mean the 2nd and 3rd fastest cards or HD 5870 and HD 5870 X2?

Last edited by GC_PaNzerFIN (2009-09-12 11:53:15)

I mean the 5850 versus the 5870 (single GPU cards, not the X2s).

Looks like a beast of a card, the 5870x2 will be quite something eh...

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

HD 5870; ~20% faster  than HD 4870x2 in HAWX. ?

http://vr-zone.com/forums/483009/5870-b … -labs.html

Holy hell ... 5870 rapes the 4890 and beats the pants off the 4870 X2 ... WOW. Now THAT is a card. I'd still like to see where the 5850 would slide in. I mean, the 4870 and 4850 both use GDDR5 VRAM, so maybe only memory capacity (rather than type) and clock speed are going to be the differences? Can't see there being too much of a difference ...

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

Well GTX 295 still seems to be beating the crap out of this in quite many games. Even in this heavily AMD favoring AMD marketing slide.

http://i25.tinypic.com/2emg9zs.jpg

Take the OpenGL results with salt, NV has been long time ahead in OpenGL and unless they got some superduperhacker OpenGL driver specialist in last months, that is bs.

where is the 295 beating the crap out of it? Only a few games there where the AMD is even or less? Pretty much across the board the AMD is kicking ass.

I just went onto Alternate Austria's website and noticed something ... the prices for the 4000 series have dropped like a rock! Like €100 off since I first priced them out at the beginning of the year! Unbelievable stuff.

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

CapnNismo wrote:

I just went onto Alternate Austria's website and noticed something ... the prices for the 4000 series have dropped like a rock! Like €100 off since I first priced them out at the beginning of the year! Unbelievable stuff.

The cheapest HD 4890 has been under 165€ for months now. ATM it is 150€ or less.

That is not real surprise as the HD5 will wipe the floor with the HD 4890. Even the cheaper models...

Well I just checked the prices today off hand ... I really hope that by spring the 5000 series gets cheaper, though.

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

Crysis 2 engine first real footage in DX9 with AMD HD 5870.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04dMyeMK … re=related


Yep, in DX9. Imagine DX11.

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