HD5850 or 2 HD5770s for xfire? [Archive]

SonDa5

10-26-2009, 05:01 PM

Tyring to figure out which would be the best option.

Strictly speaking for benchmarking, folding, Open CL apps, and of course game play.

I have some experience with single HD5850 which I am very impressed with.

Appreciate your discussion.

Dezmen

10-27-2009, 10:21 AM

I suggest you get few more money and get 5870

spajdr

10-27-2009, 10:30 AM

5870 is huge waste of money, you can easily with modded bios overclock 5850 thats its faster then 5870 (yes, you can overclock 5870, but huge price difference is not worth it).
2x HD5770 would be faster a little then single 5850, but with overclocked 5850, it would be similar, best buck for money is surely 5850 in CF, which i got also :)

Sgt.McRuff

10-27-2009, 10:38 AM

5850, no xfire scaling issues.

ELItheICEman

10-27-2009, 10:40 AM

1x 5850 > 2x 5770 any day IMO. I'd never recommend two lower-end cards over one higher-end card, even if the performance were a little better.

In my experience, drivers are never truly perfect for CrossfireX, but I'm overly picky I guess. I'd sooner take the single card and overclock it when I need the horsepower. I only still run two video cards because I run three monitors and my cards don't support EyeFinity.

Dezmen

10-27-2009, 10:51 AM

Well than 5850 and oc it ;)

dan7777

10-27-2009, 10:58 AM

think im going to get 2x 5850 would there be a difference with those 2 cards over my gtx 295 ?

Andrea deluxe

10-27-2009, 11:02 AM

5850

GenTarkin

10-27-2009, 02:02 PM

My vote is the single 5850, that way you avoid all chances of micro stuttering as you would have with any multi GPU setup.

Mungri

10-31-2009, 02:41 AM

1x 5850 > 2x 5770 any day IMO. I'd never recommend two lower-end cards over one higher-end card, even if the performance were a little better.

In my experience, drivers are never truly perfect for CrossfireX, but I'm overly picky I guess. I'd sooner take the single card and overclock it when I need the horsepower. I only still run two video cards because I run three monitors and my cards don't support EyeFinity.

Yea, but crossfire scaling works very well these days, at least Ive never had any problems across 4 crossfire setups so far (3850s, 4850s, 4870s, 5770s).

I went for the crossfire 5770s based on my own research and reviews, and they do scale brilliantly and outperform the 4870s with a slight overclock.