HD5870 and HD5850 Reviews

[saaya]

I'm wondering where Lestat got those scores as well.

So what's the verdict: one 5870 or two 5850 as best price / perf?

im going to read a few more reviews, but it seems theres quite some variation for some reason... really odd... same hw, same software, same res, same drivers... but some people get notably diferent perf than others... 0_o

tpu is 32bit, which might explain why they got notably diferent results...
xbit anand and hwcanuucks are on vista 64 or win7 64...
i also think at least some results in tpus db are outdated and that might explain diferent results as well...

and yes, price perf 5850CF seems to be the best...
for benching 4890 3x CF might be the same or close though...

Any info on when we will see 3. party coolers and when the 2GB will launch? 2GB should be be alot faster in high res games unless the bus limits it I would presume

i doubt 2gb will be faster, why should it? its not any faster for current gpus...
and i hope we will see better 3rd party heatsink soon as well...

I expected the HD-5870 to be app on par with the HD-4870X2. Yes, CF-scaling is not an issue with one GPU, but who says doubling everything leads to double the performance? Therefore I'm quite pleased up to now, except for the price. BUT AMD is advertising features as well and seeing it's the only DX11-card out there I can understand why they priced them this way. I expect prices to improve soon.

i hope so... even with the 5850 being more than 20% faster than a 4890 on average, im really surprised to see a 5850 cost almost 100$ more... but prices seem to vary as well, originally it was 299$, then 279$ and now some mentioned 249$? i think its 279$ and 4890s can be had to 190$, so theres quite a gap there...

Personnally i have never see an ATI card being good at overclocking at launch!
And for the price difference between 4870X2 and 5870 i think that feature ( Eyefinity, DX11, better power compsumption, etc...) have a cost

huh?
4870 and 4890 both oced well...
what were def clocks for 4890? 850mhz?
and they clocked to close to 1ghz on air... hows that bad ocing?