Great, first review! But I must say, I've not enough with this one. I'm with the others saying this: what's up with the AF off on so many tests? As I see it AF is at least as important as AA, probably more. I don't think the AF performance impact should be ignored this way in a review.
On the other hand, I love those power consumption measures: ~50W less than a GTX285 idle, wow! And ~25W less load! Not bad at all for a card ~50% more performant...
I don't like much the Tom's reviews, but if those preliminar results are seen again in the following reviews, this card is a great, great product. Awesome product if you ask me. Lovely. Let's see in other reviews. I'd like to know the OC headroom also, and with voltage tweaking due to the Volterra (but probably this is too much to ask for those kind of reviews).
I think that if you're a dual GPU user you shouldn't expect a change to a single GPU from the next generation to be a worthy change performance wise. It's kinda hoping that changing your high end card to a value card from the next generation is going to improve your performance (for example, 3870->4670 or 4870->5670). Power consumption and heat, or performance/price value in the time of launch are completely different things, of course, but performance wise...Originally Posted by unkn0wnhacka
Performance wise if you expect to have an improvement, you should be aiming to a card of the same market segment than yours: HD5870 X2, or a HD5870 CF.
That said, I don't see the need to change a GTX295. But I'm not the kind of people who changes hw that fast...
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