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Early benches of 5850/5870

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Here is a link to another forum thread with links, Here . If true, the 5850 just crushes the 285. The 5870 blitzes the 295 :shocked:. In the higher resolutions its just down right ugly. As the old saying goes, it ain't even right. Wow



These benchmarks have already been linked to on the first post of the sticky.

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Originally posted by: cusideabelincoln
These have already been posted 🙂
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I didn't see them, but anyway let me say one thing. At 1920x1200 I see very few games where the 5870 beats the GTX295. The ones that it does win in mean little because they are not very new titles (1920x1200 is my resolution which is why i mention it).

Having said that this is great for dropping prices. I MAY, and I mean MAY look into one of these, but I really want to wait for Nvidia and see if they bring a surprise. Like on the old McDonalds commercials "Hey it could happen."
 
If you don't like it stop bumping the damn thread and let it die.

Plus, we have to weed through multiple pages to find em.
 
Hate to say it, but I'm not that impressed with the 5870 vs 295....

There are only a few benchmarks where the 5870>295. The price difference is a major factor obviously, but outside of price aspects it doesn't really "blow away" the 295...
 
Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Hate to say it, but I'm not that impressed with the 5870 vs 295....

There are only a few benchmarks where the 5870>295. The price difference is a major factor obviously, but outside of price aspects it doesn't really "blow away" the 295...
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Except for Crysis and FC2, though, the 5870 generally seems to catch up to and overtake the 295 once AA and resolution are increased. If you think back to the GT200 release, the GTX280 didn't "blow away" the 9800GX2 either. In fact, it lost in quite a few games to the old dual GPU card.
 
It's not at all inconceivable that one or both of the cards is still CPU-limited at relatively high resolutions (even 1920x1200). We already know this to be the case with 2 and 3-way SLI/Crossfire with current gen cards getting a large boost going from a Core2-->i7. I would not be surprised at all if you need a highly overclocked i7 to get full performance with the next generation of multi-gpu setups.
 
I'm in wait and see mode. Actually I'm leaning toward not buying anything at all unless some phenomenal game comes out that needs DX11 and I don't have a card to run it. Like was mentioned before, there's only a few instances where the 5870 beats what I have now and what I have now can do physx (yes it means something to me for superficial reasons).

I want to actually see benchmarks from AT, HardOCP, Firing Squad, Guru3d, and all the other sites out there and compare everything until I decide whether it "beats the GTX295". When it comes to price there is no question the GTX295 is expensive by comparison.
 
Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Hate to say it, but I'm not that impressed with the 5870 vs 295....

There are only a few benchmarks where the 5870>295. The price difference is a major factor obviously, but outside of price aspects it doesn't really "blow away" the 295...
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People (including myself) would think the same about G80 prior to its launch. It was slower than 7950GX2 in some leaked benches. We now know how that turned out.
 
Originally posted by: lopri
Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Hate to say it, but I'm not that impressed with the 5870 vs 295....

There are only a few benchmarks where the 5870>295. The price difference is a major factor obviously, but outside of price aspects it doesn't really "blow away" the 295...
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People (including myself) would think the same about G80 prior to its launch. It was slower than 7950GX2 in some leaked benches. We now know how that turned out.
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One could also argue SLI is much more mature now than it was with the 7950GX2.

Take that however you want.
 
I have been pondering about selling my 295 and picking up a 5870. It does not smash the 295, sometimes it leads it slightly, other times its behind. For me i can see the benefit of moving to a single card:

The single card is always going to scale in every game.
No more waiting for driver updates to get an SLI profile for newly released games.
Lower power consumption in 3D mode.
With the 295 the FPS is high in some games but micro stutter and input lag is there also.

I still play games based on the Unreal 2.x engine which does not take advantage of SLI, only a handful of games work properly and the few games where SLI scales perfectly i rarely play anyway.

I think its best to wait for proper reviews of the card first, and future driver updates always bring slight improvements over time.
 
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