Quote Originally Posted by jeremyshaw View Post
Because newer games are ever more demanding on the GPU. The HD5850 was a monster, in it's own right, when it was released. However, it's climbing on 1.5 years since that day. It's showing it's age already, IMO. It still should fare okay at lower settings (multimonitor), however.
true. newer games are more demanding. no doubt in that.
the reference 5850 has been for more than year but sapphire tweaked up toxic 5850 released much later with some benefits to the user like better over clocking, cooling etc. it costs only a little more like $20 or so.

is there any games portal or site which recommends cards based on new games performance in terms of fps etc? i could only get the numbers from review sites coz i would like to understand more on medium to high resolution settings/performance in fps on multiple lcds.

one more thing is i dunno how 6950 fares on linux distros such as FC14