HD5870 and HD5850 Reviews

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Originally Posted by SKYMTL

I'm in the same boat. It looks pretty but I don't know anyone who would jump on it and the need for at least one monitor to have a Displayport is a pain.

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I'm considering it. Get two cheap used 17" or 19" LCD monitors and buy a Display Port to DVI adapter at Monoprice for $15 for the other monitor.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...seq=1&format=2

L4D over 3 screens sure looks great imo.

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Originally Posted by Jamesrt2004

With no voltage changes applied, Asus' graphics cards are running at reference 850/725MHz for the core and 4800/4000MHz for the 1GB of GDDR5 memory. When Voltage Tweak comes into play, the HD 5870 can be overclocked to 1035MHz for the GPU and 5200MHz for memory by just raising the voltage from 1.15V to 1.35V. With the HD 5850 it gets even better as it can be overclocked via Voltage Tweak to 1050MHz for the GPU and 5200MHz for the memory by raising the voltage from 1.088V to 1.4V.

By the looks of things and the figures, the HD 5850 is quite a jewel, and this might be a great card if you are into overclocking. According to Asus, this overclock raised the 3DMark Vantage Extreme Preset score from 8,087 to 9,252 for the HD 5870 and from 6501 to 8987 for the HD 5850. This also means that an overclocked HD 5850, which has less stream processors, might be capable of beating the higher priced HD 5870 at reference clocks, at least when talking about 3Dmark Vantage. Of course, we need not remind you about the price difference between these two cards.


INSANE

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+1 !! now we just need some Non Reference 5850's ^^

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Originally Posted by villa1n

+1 !! now we just need some Non Reference 5850's ^^

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Single slot,single slot,single slot :yepp:

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Originally Posted by Hell Hound

Single slot,single slot,single slot :yepp:

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Can't you just cut the upper part and connect an extra monitor by using a DP adapter? :rolleyes:

2 dvi's a hdmi,and a display port can fit on one slot and that will also leave more room for vent.

I have looked through a large portion of the links and have yet to come across tri-fire or quad fire results. On page 16 someone linked tri-fire results, but they look obscure.

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Originally Posted by Silaz

I have looked through a large portion of the links and have yet to come across tri-fire or quad fire results. On page 16 someone linked tri-fire results, but they look obscure.

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Your answer lies elsewhere, :stick: :D

http://www.hardware.info/nl-NL/produ...le_CrossFireX/

From this thread,
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...233621&page=78

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Originally Posted by jaredpace

5870 Tri-Fire review (sorry if repost):



http://www.hardware.info/nl-NL/produ...le_CrossFireX/

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Cpu limited all the way it seems or MSI eclipse 16x/8x/8x PCI-E lane?

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon...-test-review/1

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Originally Posted by AbelJemka

Cpu limited all the way it seems or MSI eclipse 16x/8x/8x PCI-E lane?

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The Stalker results were what caught my eye. Seem low.

The CPU is @ stock, I'm assuming? But it could be the PCI-E lanes like you mentioned. :confused:

Stalker is a poorly coded game , or so I read and was told .

Does anyone know when the HD 5870 2GB will be out ?

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Originally Posted by s3rv3r

Does anyone know when the HD 5870 2GB will be out ?

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Sometime in Oct.

3 5870's.
http://translate.googleusercontent.c...xXiS0SbBjKSmWw

AMD Radeon HD 5870 Video Card Overclocking
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1090/1/

thanks for posting the thread OTH, you always start decent threads :up:, interesting re amd gpu clock tool, yes the ati overdrive goes blank when you exceed the ati overdrive max clocks which i think on reference is 900mhz so once they went above 900 the ati overdrive is blank same as on the 4890's , lets hope wizzard gets the techpowerup gputool up and running on the 5800 series as it worked flawlessly for me with 3 x 4890s in crossfire, and adjusting voltage up to 1.45 volts was straight forward using the techpowerup gpu tool on the 4890's and accordingly the 5800 seies are good for over 1000 on core with a voltage increase

The techpowerup review has tons of numbers with 5870s and 5850s in crossfire. :up:

But I'm always baffled by W1zzard listing no CUDA and PhysX as cons for ATI cards. Perhaps Nvidia cards get no ATI Stream support listed as their cons? :shrug:

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Originally Posted by lockee

The techpowerup review has tons of numbers with 5870s and 5850s in crossfire. :up:

But I'm always baffled by W1zzard listing no CUDA and PhysX as cons for ATI cards. Perhaps Nvidia cards get no ATI Stream support listed as their cons? :shrug:

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good that that is your only concern with the reviews

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Originally Posted by lockee

The techpowerup review has tons of numbers with 5870s and 5850s in crossfire. :up:

But I'm always baffled by W1zzard listing no CUDA and PhysX as cons for ATI cards. Perhaps Nvidia cards get no ATI Stream support listed as their cons? :shrug:

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this has confused me as well
shouldnt they put no havok, open cl support on nvidia card reviews?

if nv doesnt support opencl then they'll get "no opencl support". opencl isnt even out yet
a lot of people at universities use cuda for their crunching because it's the only thing that works and is cross platform
physx is part of a few titles like batman, might matter for some people
nv will get "no dx 11" on their cards even though there is zero use for it today

Thats not a 'con' as such - thats stating the flaming obvious - we KNOW that ATI doesn't do PhysX or CUDA, and we KNOW that nVidia doesnt do OpenCL or Eyefinity.

It's just nit picking for the sake of it.

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Originally Posted by Kai Robinson

Thats not a 'con' as such - thats stating the flaming obvious - we KNOW that ATI doesn't do PhysX or CUDA, and we KNOW that nVidia doesnt do OpenCL or Eyefinity.

It's just nit picking for the sake of it.

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YOU know, I know, half this forum knows, but 99.98% of the population don't. and btw, nvidia DOES opencl

@GLENBOY
You are welcome :D

AMD laat ATI HD 5870 met DirectX 11 los
http://tweakers.net/reviews/1390/amd...tx-11-los.html

My sister, her 3 kids her housband, has no idea what the difference is.
Just a typical average buyer, never know what they actually get and what the cards can do.