ATI Radeon 4850x2,4890 or 5770 or ? pls help choose

lemon07r

lemon07r

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What should I get?
ATI Radeon 4850x2,4890 or 5770 (or something around $200) please help me choose.
And which company should i get it from?
 
the hd 5770 is definitely a good one. i have the xfx hd 5770 and can max out almost anything really (laying back on the aa however, maybe 2 or 4). i just finished cod6 maxed out with settings and 2x aa and i got an average of about 60 fps. some scenes would get 100s, up to about 150 at one point over the ocean, and then some would drop to around 30 (but never lower, ever) for a few seconds. crysis was a bit tricky to get right bu i can just about max out all settings with no aa. anything older will work like a charm. dirt 2 is maxed out on ALL things and i get a constant (freakishly constant, almost never deviating) 30 fps. dx11 looks amazing on dirt 2. i would highly recommend it since 2010 should give birth to 10 or (hopefully) more dx11 games. the comments that this will be "outdated when dx11 is dominant" are most likely wrong since we ALREADY have dx11 games. i have no experience with the others but i think the hd 5770 is right around a single 4870 and 2x5770s will be about a 5870. hope i helped.
 
oh and eyefinity is cool as well (though a bit tricky; hopefully drivers will improve before the card IS outdated).
 
I think that the 4890 is actually better than the 5770, but the 5770 supports DirectX 11, and if you use Windows 7, then I would probably go with something from the Radeon HD 5xxx series mainly for the whole DirectX 11 thing. ;)
 
by the time DX11 is needed, the 5770 will most likely not be powerful enough. The 4890 is better overall unless you need 3 monitors.
 
Jet said:
by the time DX11 is needed, the 5770 will most likely not be powerful enough. The 4890 is better overall unless you need 3 monitors.
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Yeah..... I'm split at this point, as I'm sure you are too, lemon07r. Each card has benefits, and each side has a point. I guess at this point it's between raw power and less features (the 4890), and a lot more features but also significantly less power (5770.)
 
But the 5770 is equal to a 4870 (more or less), +DX11. and there are DX11 games already out, and more being released in ~2-3 months (Assassin's Creed II FTW!!)

with a 5770 you will get the performance of a 4870, +DX11 and Eyefinity. not to mention less power consumption and a cooler system. And once more DX11 games are out, you will see the 5770 beating the 4870 in them.

PLUS, the drivers are new. meaning they can only bet better, which means even more performance...

If that doesn't convince you, nothing will.
 
I think I'l just get a 5770 cause I'l have enough juice to triple crossfire, where as the other GPU's I'd only be able to crossfire with two cards.
 
here we actually see a stock hd 5770 go past a gtx 285 (only slightly however) when dx11 is enabled in battleforge. this might not be typical for ALL games and/or ALL setups, but it is quite interesting.
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This is interesting, but really doesn't say much about DX10/11 performance:

Never mind the DX10 v. DX11 question, the real news here is that this game was almost certainly developed exclusively on ATI hardware, and it shows. The stock XFX HD5770 trumps the GTX285, and the overclocked one goes one better. CrossfireX scales way past 80% at both widescreen resolutions, and puts this game into the frame rate range where it runs quite smoothly.
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