w1zz disabled a part of his 5870 and downclocked it to 5850 clocks... he says its the same perf as a 5850...Originally Posted by Dante80
so tpu has the only 5850 review and its not even a REAL 5850 review? 0_o
and this after all the hype and "hold your horses" launch?
terrible launch...
link? its listed in many places but no stock... its pre-order... :/I can buy from plenty places in UKso ARE retail hehe
and i just finished the tpu review... 43db under load for the 5870?
thats a lot... and tdp is about the same as a gtx285 so why is it 6db noisier?
and performance... i really expected more...
both 5850 and 5870 are always between 285/4890 and 4870x2/295...
i thought the 5870 was supposed to beat at least the 4870x2 and the 295 at least in some cases?
5850 is on average only 5% faster than a 285...
the 5870 is on average 15% slower than a 295...
compared to their own predecessors the 5850 is only ~20% faster on average than a 4890 and a 5870 is only ~40% faster...
performance per dollar the 5870 is about the same as a gtx285 and the 5850 is between a 280 and 260...
the 5870 only oced around 5%... so basically zero...
5870 at 379$ and 5850 at 259$ are still priced too high...
4890s are available below 200$ and are only 20% slower than a 5850...
4870x2 is available for 330$, 50$ less than a 5870 and its faster than a 5870!!!
this is really a big letdown... double the hw resources and only a mere 20-40% performance gain? how come? maybe its because they have two seperate blocks of 800sps instead of one block of 1600 sps? thats probably what chiphell was refering to with their dualcore gpu talk...
im really dissapointed... more hw resources than a 4870x2, in one gpu and not 2, at higher gpu clocks, with faster memory... and it ends up slower than the 4870x2? and it costs more?
what happened???
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