Radeon HD5750 Vs Geforce GTS 250

[Stonedofmoo]

Hi all

I already have a Geforce GTS250, but I'd quite like to swap to a passively cooled Radeon HD5750/5770.
Powercolor have released a passive cooled HD5750 that fits the bill nicely. The only trouble is the HD5750 performance.

Based on the reviews from back in October the HD5750 was about even or slightly slower than the GTS250. However since then the drivers must have matured quite a bit.

What's the HD5750 performance like now. Has it improved to the point it's now faster than the GTS250?

Cheers

 

[Mojo]

well the 5770 is on par with a 4870, so I would have thought the 5750 wouldn't have been much slower. If you're looking for a passive card you couldn't go far wrong. It'll run cooler, overclock better and consume less power than your 250

 

[Rroff]

Still pretty much same story - 5750 is on par or in some cases slightly slower than the 250.

Newer drivers have increased 5 series performance by upto 20% in some cases but its more like 5% in most titles where there has been an increase and nVidia drivers have increased performance by around 5-7% in some titles in that time.

 

[Stonedofmoo]

ok great. Ideally I'd like a passive cooled HD5770, but it may be a step too far with such a small die size to cool.

The HD5750 looks decent still and the new Powercolor green card doesn't even need a PCI-E power adapter it's so economical on power.

Thanks for the replies. Interesting the Nvidia driver is still pulling out performance improvements on an architecture that's 2-3 years old now. If ATI could do the same their 5xxx series has a great future ahead of it.

 

[gurusan]

If there is any airflow you can probably clock the 5750 a bit in which case it will certainly outperform the 250.

Also if you want low voltage stuff you can mess around with the bios, I've managed to get my 4890 to idle at .85V @ 240MHz, and .95V @ 500MHz for UVD. As the 5750 is 40nm I'd expect to get even better numbers.

 

[Pendu]

Interesting the Nvidia driver is still pulling out performance improvements on an architecture that's 2-3 years old now.

I would be suspicious thou, nVidia have in the past forced certain changes to settings, via the drivers, giving the GPU a couple percent less to do.