HD5870 and HD5850 Reviews

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Anand, bit-tech, Hcanucks,....., and it can´t beat easy the 4870x2.
With same specs, better clocks, and without de handicap of crossfire, i expected better performance in all games. So, yes, the results with the drivers used is a bit dissapointing.

even though the benchmarks show a pretty strong performance i tend to agree, atleast for now. if you consider that the 5870 is basically a 4870x2 in one chip (without crossfire which adds some sort of overhead etc) i still can't really think of a reason why the 5870 isn't faster than a 4870x2 most of the time

i really hope performance increases with more mature drivers later on. or are we really looking at a bottleneck regarding the 256bit interface some people "predicted" prior the launch?

two 5870 in cf however look impressive. pretty good scaling considering the fact these use release drivers, especially compared to the scaling of the gts295 or two 285 in sli.

however, i'm really tempted to replace my 4850 with a 5870 - even if i don't know why, as everything i play atm runs fine on the 4850 i think it's the charm of new hardware and dx11 (including compute shader etc...)