XFX 5850 Black Edition for 27" monitor??

[gunners77]

Hi there

Will the XFX 5850 Black Edition (specs below) be powerful enough to play the latest racing games (Grid, Dirt2, NFS Shift...) at full res. on a 27" monitor (2048 X 1152). What kind of performance (fps) should I expect?

*Black Edition has core clock of 765 MHz vs. the normal 725 MHz.
*Black Edition has memory clock of 1125Mhz(4.5Gbps) vs. the normal 1000Mhz(4.0Gbps)

Thanks all!

G

 

[MarcVenice]

If you use DX9 in DiRT2, you should be fine with minima easily above 30fps. And trust me when I say DX11 isn't worth the performance hit in DiRT 2 compared to DX9.

 

[gunners77]

only 30fps?? that sounds disappointingly low...

 

[stag3]

aren't those speeds what you can already overclock the card to using ati overdrive?
why buy a black edition

 

[gunners77]

Probably.. I am getting this through work so it's all good.
Anyways back to the point...

 

[SlowSpyder]

That resolution is just a very little bit higher overall than 1920x1200, so you can pretty well judge by any benches that use 1920x1200. I plan on getting a 5850 for my 1920x1200 res monitor, based on the reviews I've seen it should be a plenty capable card for that resolution (and your resolution). Also, the 5850's tend to overclock pretty well from what I've read.

 

[TJ Tom]

I have a Samsung 2343BW, same resolution as you and I sue a Powercolor HD5850 and I can play every game at max, realy max as in 8 times AA and all.

Lowest fps is probably crysis so far at 27 fps at max resolution and 8xAA entheusiast settings. Still it's playable.

In DirT 2 I get about 60-70 fps but that was using DX10, I had problems installing DX11 and I think this puts me down to about 60fps based on some other HD5850 reviews out there.

30fps? ofcourse not...

 

[stag3]

oh hell if works paying for it, why not a 5870? or dual hah =)

i run everything @ 1920x1200 with my xfx 5850, no slowdowns that i've noticed
except in bc2, which no matter what res i set it at, it runs that slow, so i don't think
its the card