Quote Originally Posted by mk_dir View Post
OK today is the NDA break for AMD's HD5870/HD5850, however, anyone see a HD5850 review??

And yes, I can make me an idea about his performance (matched with GTX285) but seriously, not even one review?
Quote Originally Posted by Jamesrt2004 View Post
one I read did in one of the main page (they downclocked and disabled 2 simd's or something so its literally 100% 5850 with maybe bit higher power consumption
Techpowerup?
We simulated the performance of the HD 5850 by taking our HD 5870, reducing the clock speeds and disabling two SIMDs, which results in exactly the same performance as HD 5850.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...HD_5870/5.html