5850, 5870, and 5870 crossfire early results!

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Hey guys, I just stumbled upon these charts and was really impressed with these cards. With DX11 and eyefinity (3 monitor support) Nvidia is going to have to have a big price drop on their 285 and 295 to compete. Here's the charts:

5850 Comparison
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5870 Comparison
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5870 Crossfire
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As you can see the 5850 really steals the spotlight here with amazing results compared to the 285.

Also here is some PCmark Vantage scores:
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Geez if these are to believed ATI just handed the 200 series a can of whoop ass!!!

Makes me wonder what the new 300 series cards will be like...I heard a rumor Nvidia is 1 month behind on them.


Nice find :)
 
Twist86 said:
Geez if these are to believed ATI just handed the 200 series a can of whoop ass!!!

Makes me wonder what the new 300 series cards will be like...I heard a rumor Nvidia is 1 month behind on them.


Nice find :)
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They sure did, lol. I know the first 300 series cards are going to be renamed 2 series cards. They will do something like they did with the 8800/9800. I have heard that Nvidia was having problems with some of the DX11 features and that they are put out so far that there will be no "new" parts until the beginning of next year. But it's all rumors so who knows.


Also I want to add that these new cards scaling is looking very promising as you can see in the charts. In most games it's double the fps and in some more than double.
 
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Wow. Now i want a 5000 series card badly. All i can afford is a 4850 at the moment but i can't buy one yet... i must wait til the 5000 series come out. By those results, i'd say a price drop on the high end 4000 series is inevitable. what do you think?

EDIT: Maybe i'll sell my 3870 and get a 5850 when they are released? ;) I hope so.

EDIT 2: those are some massive reolutions with huge fps. My screen supports no higher than 1280x1024, you think i should fork out for a 5850? or stick with a 4850?
 
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Yeah, I'll believe it when actual consumers post their results. They always exaggerate the performance on new hardware, but when it comes out it's not nearly as good as they said it was. AKA marketing.
 
The results from the 5870 in xfire playing Crysis @ 1680x1050 res doesnt look all that great....my 4890 get 79fps in some places in crysis and thats just one card?

But i suppose they are early drivers.
 
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Motoxrdude said:
Yeah, I'll believe it when actual consumers post their results. They always exaggerate the performance on new hardware, but when it comes out it's not nearly as good as they said it was. AKA marketing.
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Yes. I'd also like to see which setups they paired these with. Probably Core i9's, 6GB of DDR3 1600mhz and some crazy-ass feature packed motherboard. :cool:
 
THERMAL-REACTOR said:
Here's a video showing the new Eyefinity feature 5760 x 2400:
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That is pretty freaking cool....only downside I have on it is the fact is multiple monitor black bars...I dunno why but that bugs the living crap out of me.

Though imagine owning such a system that could even run that many monitors/resolution.
 
Twist86 said:
That is pretty freaking cool....only downside I have on it is the fact is multiple monitor black bars...I dunno why but that bugs the living crap out of me.

Though imagine owning such a system that could even run that many monitors/resolution.
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Ati is working with Samsung to make super small bezels on the monitors specifically for this. Here is the article : Eyefinity
 
This makes me wanna become a AMD/Ati fanboy after reading that. Gotta love how each company has to outshine each other...if only AMD could bring the fight back to Intel again ^-^
 
I bet you anything those results are a little higher than the average consumer will see.

If the price is good and the cards perform...they will be a huge hit. Gamers will love them!

The only issue I have with ATI is the cards are terrible Folding cards. They can do it, but at fractions what Nvidia based cards can produce. Most of the ATI cards Fold at about 50% or less than the Nvidia equivalent.
 
If more and more games can support this kind of resolution I will switch from using a TV to this. Here's some qoutes from the article:

"This unique AMD innovation gives PCs the ability to seamlessly connect up to six ultra high definition displays in a variety of portrait and landscape configurations giving viewers a stunning new perspective on their PC experience. ATI Eyefinity is powered by one AMD graphics card for up to 12 times 1080p high-definition resolution, which approaches eye-definition optical clarity."

"ATI Eyefinity technology brings AMD closer to delivering true eye-definition experiences, where the display of a virtual environment is so detailed that it seems optically real to the human eye. Using ATI Eyefinity technology in a single PC, it is now possible to power displays with a combined theoretical resolution of 268 megapixels,2 roughly equivalent to the resolution of a 90 degree arc of what the human eye sees.3 For reference, today’s average 19 inch LCD display typically has an image quality of only slightly more than 1 megapixel."
 
hmm, i heard a rumor that nvidia is having poor chip yeilds for the gt300 series(less than 2%) so i for some reason think that the retail for those cards is going to be a bit higher than that :P doubt i'll upgrade any time soon either, i may well just pick up a third gtx 285 if the prices drop low enough
 
just a noob said:
hmm, i heard a rumor that nvidia is having poor chip yeilds for the gt300 series(less than 2%) so i for some reason think that the retail for those cards is going to be a bit higher than that :P doubt i'll upgrade any time soon either, i may well just pick up a third gtx 285 if the prices drop low enough
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You sicken me:P
 
just a noob said:
hmm, i heard a rumor that nvidia is having poor chip yeilds for the gt300 series(less than 2%) so i for some reason think that the retail for those cards is going to be a bit higher than that :P doubt i'll upgrade any time soon either, i may well just pick up a third gtx 285 if the prices drop low enough
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That is just a rumor, i highly doubt it is true, i remember alot of other gpu's they said would have bad yeilds and didnt.
 
bomberboysk said:
That is just a rumor, i highly doubt it is true, i remember alot of other gpu's they said would have bad yeilds and didnt.
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it wouldn't suprise me though, i mean look at the gt200 chips, they don't have very good yeilds, unless nvidia has decided to move to a smaller chip
 
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