That was a mistake from my side I calculated from 100 instead of 66.
*Actually, if I'm doing my math right, at 1080 it's [(85-66)/66] ~29% faster. That's stock! The 7850 will O/C so much more than the 5850 and scale better while it's doing it. It's not even close, really.
*That's using TPU's benchmark suite. YMMV. It's best to look at particular games the OP plays for a more accurate picture.
So... if the cost to make a chip at the same size goes up or they lose other revenue/profit by having to cut out other parts from their graphics lineup, you say they should keep the prices the same?I don't know how many times I have to say it but AGAIN I expect a decent increase in performance at around the SAME price point from a next gen card.
Hey, what are your specs, BTW?
And I agree that on certain games, the new cards are much better than the 5-series. That's the tessellation effect. No doubt they are much better cards, even where a TechPowerUp performance summary would suggest otherwise: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_7850_HD_7870/26.html
But outside of a few current games, a 7850, and in my opinion even a 7870, is not a reasonable upgrade from a 5850/5870.
The gtx 680 oc is about 40-50% faster than a gtx 580 oc and sometimes even faster and it trades blows with a 590 making ven an overclocked 590 pointless.
As a 5850 user for a long long time, it is a worthwhile upgrade only IF you are an overclocker. The performance of OC 7850 is stellar for the price and thermals/power use. The biggest difference is the performance is high in pretty much every game, whereas 58xx suffers in most NV sponsored titles. That and minimum fps improved a lot, not sure if its the extra vram or just the GCN architecture.
I was about to jump on for a gtx680 but over here they are priced ~$700 USD and my logic prevailed; no way would I folk out that much for what is essentially a mid-range GPU product.
I tried setting up a sig once (and it looked awful) and I've yet to redo it:
Mine:
HD 7970 @ 1125/1575
i5 2500K stock (need to OC this bad boy)
ASRock Z68 Gen3 Extreme4 (or is it Gen4 Extreme 3 - dyslexia )
2x4GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600
Corsair TX850
ASUS 1080p 120hz/ Samsung 1080p 60hz
Corsair Cabride 500R White/Black
Her:
GTX 680 +75 offset
i7 930 @ 3.6ghz with Corsair H50
ASRock X58 Extreme
3x2GB G.Skill Black Pi DDR3 1600
Corsair GX650
ASUS 1080p 60hz
Cooler Master Scout
I think those are the important things?
Batman:AC alone to me is a huge perk to my upgrade. Amazed how much they fixed their tesselators.