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5850 Or 6850
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Cheers, think I will.
No biggy your still running S775
Might aswell match OLD with the OLD
No biggy your still running S775
Might aswell match OLD with the OLD
Does everything I want it to.
As a 5850 owner I can see both points of view, easyrider has a point but for £125 you cannot go wrong with 5850, or a 68xx for that matter. Most 5850's (including mine) will easily do 1000core and have a full feature set just like the 68 series. Sure the temptation is there to go for a 68 series because they are newer and supported for longer but then there is that mediocre trade off in performance.
Answer.... pull paper from a hat, both offer good value and near on the same feature set and performance.
Answer.... pull paper from a hat, both offer good value and near on the same feature set and performance.
Except the 6850 is far better in an xfire configuration
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Better scaling on xfire yes, but due to the card itself being slower, it is only on par with 5850 xfire according to reviews.
So what you are saying is the 5850 is faster on current race tracks?
What about Race tracks yet to be designed... DX11 Racetracks? Racetracks of the future.
I get it very well thanks.
Who cares about DX9 games anymore DX 11 is where its at
My old 4850 destroyed Doom 3...See what I mean
So what gains does the 5850 give you in the future again ?
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Nope. dx11 games are like the corners I mention, which the 5850 doesn't really fall behind the 6850. Heaven Bench and Metro2033 results already clearly illustrated that 6850 is barely any faster than 5850 under those condition.So what you are saying is the 5850 is faster on current race tracks?
What about Race tracks yet to be designed... DX11 Racetracks? Racetracks of the future.
I get it very well thanks.
Who cares about DX9 games anymore DX 11 is where its at
My old 4850 destroyed Doom 3...See what I mean
"Meanwhile taking a quick look at Crossfire performance we see an interesting trend: the 6800 series cards are much closer to their 5800 series counterparts than they are in single card mode. Here the 6850CF even manages to top the 5850CF, an act that nearly defies logic. This is something we’ll have to keep an eye on in later results.
Moving on to our minimums, in CF mode now both 6800 series cards top their 5800 series counterparts. Crysis’ minimum framerate has always been a bit brutal to AMD cards due to how AMD’s drivers manage their memory, a problem compounded by Crossfire mode. Perhaps something has changed?"
Moving on to our minimums, in CF mode now both 6800 series cards top their 5800 series counterparts. Crysis’ minimum framerate has always been a bit brutal to AMD cards due to how AMD’s drivers manage their memory, a problem compounded by Crossfire mode. Perhaps something has changed?"
FML!
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The load power consumption of the HD6850 1GB is lower than an HD5850 1GB and it only requires a single PCI-E power connector too. Most HD6850 1GB cards tend to be shorter than the HD5850 1GB so it means that an HD6850 1GB can be run in more systems than an HD5850 1GB.
Oh Dear
Not that one again used so many time by people who think they are being witty
Fact is I make a valid point.
Indeed the power consumption of the 6850 V the 5850 considering the samll gain in perfromance is excellent.
Very valid when running an Xfire configuration.
6850 in xfire is faster than 5850 xfire ad uses far less juice.
1 watt in it when gaming, furmark is slightly higher. The 5850 we're suggesting is a fairly standard size so will fit in 99% of cases. So the 6850 uses one PCI-E power cable, that's a bonus only if you have a crap PSU.
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"Looking at load power consumption it’s clear from the start that AMD’s efficiency gains are going to pay off here. On the latest iteration of our power consumption chart the 6850 underconsumes even the already conservative 5850 by 20W under Crysis and 25W under FurMark, showcasing how AMD was able to reduce their power consumption by a significant amount while giving up much less in the way of performance"
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Oh Dear
Not that one again used so many time by people who think they are being witty
Fact is I make a valid point.
Hardly. You keep saying the performance difference is small but it's not. Then you argue about the future... but then people always say that and yet people want to play games NOW. By the time those new tessellation heavy games you keep going on about come out, there might be better solutions out there. Look at popular games such as cod and bc2, those are games that people will be playing for a long time and the 5850 is clearly better at them.
Power consumption might be lower but maybe, just maybe it could be partially due to it being a less powerful card... I'd rather have my 20% better performance at a lower cost than get a 6850.
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Where are the benchmarks showing 20%?
Also look at the CF benchies the 6850 uses less power and yet its faster in CF than a 5850's
So how do you do your math?
I've ordered the MSI 5850. I had a quick and easy decision to make when it came to choosing between the 5850 and 6850. The 5850 is the more powerful card, it has a non-reference cooler and voltage tweak. It is the better card, its not the better card at games with heavy Tessellation, it brings them about level. The difference is neglible if the 6850 is at faster anyway. I have no intention of going CF as my motherboard doesn't allow it, so any gains the 6850 has there aren't relevant for me.
For me theres just no reason whatsoever to get a 6850. Even if they were the same price I still would have got the 5850.
For me theres just no reason whatsoever to get a 6850. Even if they were the same price I still would have got the 5850.