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Swapping GTX260 (216) for 5870

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I know these types of questions can be annoying but there's quite a bit of cash involved and I want to make sure I'm not making a big mistake.

My rig is detailed in my sig and so far it's done me proud. That is until it comes to Battlefield Bad Company 2 where it seems to struggle. Forcing it into directx9 mode and turning down the textures helped but it still wasn't as smooth as I'd want it to be.

Would a 5870 be a noticeable improvement over the 260? Has anyone else swapped from the same card as me and can comment first hand?
 
Price-wise, is there really any comparison? My Zotac GTX260 cost around 100 new.

I'd be more interested in a comparison between the GTX260 and a 5770
 
5870 is roughly equivalent to a well clocked 260 SLI in most cases and a bit faster in crysis - so a fairly worthwhile move if your playing at 1920x or above.

Image Quality is subjective... obviously you have the DX11 advantage and you can turn up the AA, but the actual filtering quality is a bit naff tbh - distant textures are not as sharp and clear as on the 200 series and while theres a bit less moire on the surfaces that doesn't make up for the more blurry mipmaps.
 
LOL @ roff, harking back to some dodgy thread about AF filtering on the 5000 cards, anything to put the downer on ATI..:rolleyes: just for the record the 5000 cards had been noted by many respected sites to have the best IQ of the all current cards this included AF, with screens comparing AF btween the 5000 cards and the 200 cards from NV, and guess what, not one reviewer mentioned anything about blurry AF with ATI...;)

Filtering Image Quality

Let’s start right off the bat looking at filtering quality since ATI has put a lot of effort into making it "perfect" with the 5800 series.

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The first screenshot above shows all three video cards being tested here today with Trilinear filtering, i.e. no Anisotropic filtering, their default settings. What will catch your eyes immediately is the fact that the Radeon HD 5870 exhibits a perfect circle on all filtering levels as we look down the tunnel. The GeForce GTX 285 seems to be better than the Radeon HD 4890, so the HD 5870 is a big improvement over AMD’s previous generation.

In the second screenshot we have enabled 16X AF. Once again we find the Radeon HD 5870 produces the best 16X AF out of the bunch. It is a perfect circle, with no dependencies on angles like the Radeon HD 4890. I would say ATI has succeeded in providing the absolute best filtering quality in a gaming graphics card.
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http://www.hardocp.com/article/2009/09/22/amds_ati_radeon_hd_5870_video_card_review/6
 
Take a few screenshots from games to compare and you can see the difference... the 5 series on distant mipmaps is nowhere near as clear as the 200 series - yeah sure the 5 series has better handling of angles but you don't really notice that outside of synthetic tests.
 
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Come on then show me some examples, give me a link to a respected web site detailing this flaw in ATI AF filtering, because I sure as hell can't find them. Therefore this nonsense your going on about is not there or is so negligible only the saddest of the saddest would think anything of it.

ATI has succeeded in providing the absolute best filtering quality
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Card arrived this morning!! Well pleased...

Can someone just confirm these benchmarks look ok for my system? (Both ran at default settings)

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