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[comp@ddict]

Sapphire HD5870 review(23rd September reviewed with Ati Catalyst Cypress Drivers)
HIS HD5870 review(28th September with Hotfix for the Video Drivers)


- We see increase in fps in all resolutions


- We see increase in fps in all resolutions


- We see increase in fps in all resolutions


- We see increase in fps in all resolutions

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We do see anywhere between 1-5 fps increase in all games and resolutions in the same card, and it's drivers are not yet properly released...wow!

[Krow]

nVidia GT300's Fermi architecture unveiled: 512 cores, up to 6GB GDDR5

GPU specifications
This is the meat part you always want to read fist. So, here it how it goes:

* 3.0 billion transistors
* 40nm TSMC
* 384-bit memory interface
* 512 shader cores [renamed into CUDA Cores]
* 32 CUDA cores per Shader Cluster
* 1MB L1 cache memory [divided into 16KB Cache - Shared Memory]
* 768KB L2 unified cache memory
* Up to 6GB GDDR5 memory
* Half Speed IEEE 754 Double Precision

Read on.....

[topgear]

^^ Thanks! That's what I was waiting for - A new performance war by the green demon

BTW, here is the HD5850 Review from guru3d - this link was found by our member asigh though
http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon...ew-crossfire/1

[Krow]

Some more reviews of the same beast.

Tech Report
http://techreport.com/articles.x/17652

Well, there you have it. The Radeon HD 5850 manages to outshine the fastest single-GPU GeForce card overall while costing less, drawing less power, and producing less noise. We wouldn't be surprised to see Nvidia cut prices in the near future, but in any case, the 5850 is hands-down the second-fastest single-GPU graphics card on the market.

Anandtech
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3650

When you take the Cypress based Radeon HD 5870 and cut out 2 SIMDs and 15% of the clock speed to make a Radeon HD 5850, on paper you have a card 23% slower. In practice, that difference is only between 10% and 15% depending on the resolution. What’s not a theory is AMD’s pricing: they may have cut off 15% of the performance to make the 5850, but they have also cut the price by well more than 15%; 31% to be precise.

The result of this is clear: the 5870 is the fastest single-GPU card, and the 5850 is the value alternative.

Tom's Hardware
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...5850,2433.html

With the Radeon HD 3800-series, ATI settled for second place right out of the gate. The Radeon HD 4800-series was a staggering improvement, catapulting ATI right onto Nvidia’s heels. It was a second-place finish, yet again, but fast enough to outperform the GeForce GTX 260, surprise Nvidia, and force the company to restructure its prices. Now, with the Radeon HD 5800-series, ATI has two cards that are faster than its competitor’s quickest single-GPU board. My, how times have changed.

Legit Reviews
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1097/14/

The ATI Radeon HD 5850 that we highlighted here today might be smaller and cost less than the Radeon HD 5870, but that doesn't mean that it isn't still a great gaming graphics card. The 1440 stream processors operating at a core clock frequency of 725MHz are still more than enough horse power to play all the latest game titles. The Radeon HD 5850 will be the DirectX 11 card to have for overclockers looking for the biggest bang for the buck.

PC Perspective
http://pcper.com/article.php?aid=788&type=expert

AMD has built a product that truly stands out from the competition with the Radeon HD 5800-series of cards. Though we have already reviewed the HD 5870, it and the new HD 5850 are really going to put NVIDIA in a bad position this coming holiday if they can’t somehow magically deliver a new architecture by years-end.

PC Games Hardware
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,6...rgain/Reviews/

Like it has been the case in our review of the Radeon HD 5870, we can have come to a clear conclusion in matters of the Radeon HD 5850: In games the card is slightly faster than the GTX 285, which currently costs about 270 Euros. Depending on the game the DX 11 is a bit slower, but on the other hand there are game where it beats the Geforce noticeably. Furthermore AMD's 200 Euros card isn't just cheaper, but also offers several new features: Besides Sparse-Grid Supersampling and Ati Eyefinity multi-monitoring the HD 5800 series offers DirectX 11 hardware support. Furthermore the low power consumption and the low noise in idle mode are positive, too. The 4.0 Sone on workload on the other hand are not goos - here the cost saving cuts on the cooling become obvious.

Hot Hardware
http://hothardware.com/articles/AMD-...rmance-Review/

HD 5850 through an assortment of tests, a distinct trend emerged. Save for a few instances (namely in 3DMark Vantage and L4D), the Radeon HD 5850 performed right on par with or just ahead of the GeForce GTX 285. The Radeon HD 5850 was also significantly faster than the Radeon HD 4890, but it trailed the more powerful and more expensive cards, like the Radeon HD 4870 X2, GeForce GTX 295, and of course the Radeon HD 5870.

[comp@ddict]

Now,,, who says HD5850 isn't the new budget winner????

[Krow]

^Now I can back you, since we have the reviews in sight.

[topgear]

HD5850 is the winner in Rs. 15-22K single GPU Price Range ( read it pwns GTX285 )

BTW, waiting eagerly for Nvidia GT300 and ATI's HD5770 and HD5670 without PCI-e power connector HD5770 and HD5670 just a wish though - but IMO they will outperform Nvidia 9xxx, ATI HD4850 and HD5770 might even GTX 260

[comp@ddict]

^^^^^^^^

HD5700 series come on October 12th guys!!! And it's performance will be better than HD4870 and maybe better than HD4890/GTX260 too.

[j1n M@tt]

^^any idea abt its price range??

[comp@ddict]

149 to 199$

[topgear]

^^^^^^^^

HD5700 series come on October 12th guys!!! And it's performance will be better than HD4870 and maybe better than HD4890/GTX260 too.

Thanks for the news buddy

[desiibond]

Hack Released to Enable PhysX on Windows 7 with ATI GPU Present\

Source: http://techpowerup.com/105329/Hack_R...U_Present.html

Although having a powerful ATI Radeon GPU aided by a less-powerful NVIDIA GeForce GPU for PhysX was possible on Windows XP, the succeeding Windows Vista restricted this, by making sure two active display drivers couldn't coexist. Windows 7 removed this restriction, but before you could rejoice, NVIDIA quickly released a driver-level code with its 186 series drivers, that disables NVIDIA PhysX altogether when a GPU from another vendor is coexisting and enabled, even an IGP for that matter. If that wasn't bizarre enough, with the latest drivers, you can't even pair an Ageia PhysX PPU card with an ATI Radeon GPU going about its business. To the rescue comes a soft-modder's nifty bit of software that overrides this restriction from NVIDIA's drivers, so you can use dedicated GeForce PhysX cards on machines with ATI Radeon primary GPUs again. The corrective driver patch comes from tech portal NGOHQ.com community member GenL.

[topgear]

go to this link and look at post no. 277 to download this patch

http://www.ngohq.com/graphic-cards/1...html#post82812

[desiibond]

Gigabyte HD 5770 listed, pictured

It looks like a proper dual-slot card. It sports a good looking, massive enclosure for the heatsink and rather sizable fan, and the PCB doesn't look small, either. At the rear, it packs two DVIs, HDMI and DisplayPort, as well as an exhaust vent. It seems all HD 5700 series cards will feature DisplayPort.

Pics and more

[sagargv]

^^ what do u think will be the price of 5770 and 5750 in india ? will 5750 compete against 4870 ?

you're predictions seem to be very accurate.I would love to hear your view.

[desiibond]

hd5770:

sub 10k card ( I think 8k-8.5k would be ideal price)
should be able to compete with GTX260 and HD4870.

HD5750:

ideal price: 6k
should be able to compete with HD4770 and 9800GT

[sagargv]

^^ really ?

5770 is set to be launched at 199$ .. if this is to compete with radeon 4870 which is probably selling around 140$ i doubt people from other countries will buy it. ..

ofcourse , it will be ideal for us indians.

[desiibond]

^^ I thought it's going to retail under or around $150. $199 won't be the price for this given that HD4890 is available for $190 (also newegg is giving another $15 mail-in rebate).

[sagargv]

my bad. .i wonder if 5770 will be better than 4870. the leaked 3d mark scores dont look too good.. i hope its because of bad drivers.

[topgear]

^^ Or it could be that 3DMark06 is now a outdated app to benchmark DX10 and Dx11GPs. For DX10 and DX11 gpu's you can trust 3DMark Vantage results.

3DMark06 is now a nice CPU benchmarking app as it scales well with CPu's

[desiibond]

^^3dMark Vantage showed that HD5770 lagged behind HD4890 by a good margin.

[MetalheadGautham]

^^3dMark Vantage showed that HD5770 lagged behind HD4890 by a good margin.

HD5770 is meant to replace the HD4870.
HD5850 is the one which replaces HD4890.

[comp@ddict]

HD5750 and HD5770 are more like 100-150$ and not 199$ price range...

[MetalheadGautham]

HD5750 and HD5770 are more like 100-150$ and not 199$ price range...

Well, they will reach that range after stock of 55nm GPUs clears first.

[comp@ddict]

yea...and I guess prices will also come down as GDDR5 will get cheaper(obviously, looks like AMD will use GDDR5 for HD5800, HD5700 and maybe HD5600 series too...)

[j1n M@tt]

^^3dMark Vantage showed that HD5770 lagged behind HD4890 by a good margin.

HD4890 is superior than HD5770. Look at the ATI naming convention...The first digit denotes generation, and the second digit the performance series and so on...So 4890 is superior than 5770, even thou it belongs to the next generation.

[comp@ddict]

yeah...but later a highly OCed HD5790 may appear and beat the HD4890/GTX260 in performance....

[j1n M@tt]

ya...that is possible. HD5xxx series is 40nm, so we will be seeing higher GPU and mem clocks

[comp@ddict]

^^^^With the ASUS voltage tweak feature HD5700 as well as HD5800 crds clock at 1GHz + on stock cooling...

[desiibond]

All that I hope is that ATI won't bombard market with too many models. three below 5k, two between 6k and 10k, 2 between 11k and 15k and three above 15k should be good and healthy.