Radeon 5850 Gaming Benchmarks

[Jamin43]

Conclusions

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.

Performance isn't the 5850's only strength, either. AMD's newcomer also brings higher-quality antialiasing and filtering algorithms, as well as next-generation DirectX 11 goodness, so it'll let you enjoy extra eye candy in upcoming games while making old ones look even better. That functionality would be worth a price premium if the 5850 commanded one, but it doesn't—at least not for now.
AMD Radeon HD 5850
September 2009

The Radeon HD 5850 is also a compelling solution for quiet, low-power, or compact builds, since it delivers excellent performance with a more reasonable power and noise footprint than previous high-end cards. And it doesn't have a freakishly long circuit board like the Radeon HD 5870, which is always a plus.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/17652/10

 

[FairDoos]

I just cant wait for nVidias response thats why im waiting before i buy considering the 295 & 285 Were just a little lower that the 5850 im intreagued on what nVidia is going to pull out if its hat

 

[funkysnair]

I just cant wait for nVidias response thats why im waiting before i buy considering the 295 & 285 Were just a little lower that the 5850 im intreagued on what nVidia is going to pull out if its hat

a rabit!!!

nah there 300 series will be really impressive, well they have to be now

 

[FairDoos]

a rabit!!!

nah there 300 series will be really impressive, well they have to be now

So true but thinking though i bet they will be overpriced :l

 

[linkin]

Definately. there is a thread somewhere about the specs of GT300 cards. all are going to use a 512-bit memory bus. the best card (prolly GTX 395 or something) can have up to 6gb of VRAM... yes, a whole 6gb.

 

[Bodaggit23]

Definately. there is a thread somewhere about the specs of GT300 cards. all are going to use a 512-bit memory bus.

Nope.

384-bit memory interface

512 shader cores

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/new...ure-unveiled-512-cores2c-up-to-6gb-gddr5.aspx

http://www.nvidia.com/object/fermi_architecture.html

 

[Gooberman]

wasn't the 200 series like 240 cores? that's like more then double!!!

 

[linkin]

Oh, my bad. but 6gb of vram?

 

[Ethan3.14159]

Oh, my bad. but 6gb of vram?

Up to 6GB. There tends to be a sweet spot for VRAM anyway. Right now it's 1 GB per GPU. Unless you're running Crysis in 2560 x 1600 more than 1GB isn't necessary.

I'm sure Nvidia won't have a problem coming out with something that performs just as good as the new ATI cards. The real problem for Nvidia are prices. They dump way more money into developing their cards. They have to charge a premium to make a profit. Remember when they had to drop prices on the GTX 260 and 280? They were losing money on every card they sold.