• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

5850 or 5870

Swi1ch

Swi1ch

Swi1ch

Associate
Joined
19 Nov 2008
Posts
1,584
I cant comment on the 5870 as havn't got one, but can confirm i am very happy with my 5850 which i got on release last year.

Has played everything i have wanted on max settings including using eyefinity for 3x 22 montiors.

Can be overclocked to 5870 speeds and cost £100 less and i cant really recall a time when ive said to myself 'if only i got the 5870'.
 
Swi1ch said:
I'm torn between http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-233-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411 and http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-236-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1502.

It will be replacing my duff GTX280, which will be RMA'd and then sold to reimburse some of the cost.

Thoughts on the £100 difference? Rest of spec is Q9550, 8GB DDR2 Corsair XMS3, 850 Zalman PSU and Asus P5Q Pro mobo.
Click to expand...

Here is an old thread which I think you will find very useful. It seems 5870 is only 5% faster than 5850. I don't think it's worth spending £100 extra for 5-8% performance gain.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18112756
 
I have never seen a 5850 or a 5870 in action.

However, website benchmark's seem to suggest there most definetly is a gulf between a 5850 and a 5870 definetly beyond 5%!
 
Swi1ch said:
Thanks.

Do you think i'm going to be bottlenecked with my CPU? Q9550 @ about 3.2
Click to expand...


Well I have E6600 which is 65nm cpu whereas Q9950 is 45nm, so first of all Q9950 should run cooler and be more power efficient. I also have sapphire non reference 5850 which I overclocked to 900/1200MHz on stock voltage. I first ran Crysis on 1920X1080 res with both [email protected] and 5850 @725/1000MHz
which are both stock settings. I wasn't impressed as I was getting 28-32 fps on average and the graphics looked very rough.
So then I overclocked GPU to 900/1200MHz and E6600 to 3.2GHz. I then ran Crysis Warhead which has better looking graphics on 1920X1080 and immediately I saw huge difference. I was getting 38-45 on average and game ran very smooth.
So I would say that [email protected] GHz is fast and should be fine although it would be better if you can overclock it more. At lower settings CPU is the bottleneck and at higher resolutions it is usually graphics card which is the bottleneck. So if you buy 5850 and overclock it to my settings or more; not only you beat a stock 5870 but also you will have a very nice system which can run games smoothly :).
 
Swi1ch said:
The OcUK 480 is actually cheaper than the 5870, i'm considering that.
Click to expand...

So.... are all the Fermi's made by NV and shipped out to the "manufacturers" who just stick a label on, or are the individual brands actually making their own?

Is it true that all the Ati 58XX series are just made by Sapphire?

This looks interesting regarding the "own brand" GTX 480, but only if its of the same quality as the other makes on the market.
 
TangoSixteen said:
So.... are all the Fermi's made by NV and shipped out to the "manufacturers" who just stick a label on, or are the individual brands actually making their own?

Is it true that all the Ati 58XX series are just made by Sapphire?

This looks interesting regarding the "own brand" GTX 480, but only if its of the same quality as the other makes on the market.
Click to expand...

The individual brands make Nvidia cards based on the specifications provided by Nvidia. As for non reference design I am not sure as they probably have to get permission from Nvidia; may be someone with more insight can help.

Same goes for Ati. Sapphire is only one of the brands that produce Ati card. You have Powercolor, Asus, XFX, Gigabyte, MSI etc which also make ati cards. Although I would also like to know if Nvidia and Ati make their cards in large numbers or just delegate mass production to individual brands.
 
Not from the OcUK shop but from the members market. You can join in once youve been on the forum for 3 months and made 250 posts. Id prefer to get a card from someone on here than buy one from ebay
 
FiCtioN75 said:
Not from the OcUK shop but from the members market. You can join in once youve been on the forum for 3 months and made 250 posts. Id prefer to get a card from someone on here than buy one from ebay
Click to expand...

I still cant see the members market and I emailed 2 mods and been around 2 3 weeks and still nothing from them??
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom