5870/5850 User Benchmarks, Thoughts & Feelings

magnuswinwick · 24 Sep 2009 at 20:34

Hmm, I finished a blast of Crysis ten minutes ago and CCC is showing current values are still high, not in idle mode and temp is 60C. It keeps flicking down to idle mode and then back up....

A minute later...

Seems it is jDownloader doing it, when it is on the taskbar it kicks up to full speed but load is still 0% when minimised to tray CCC drops to idle mode and temp to 43C.

I can actually hear my HDD working now, which is annoying

straxusii · 24 Sep 2009 at 20:35

LeJosh said:
Video memory usage 96%?

That's GTA4 for you! With my 512MB 4870 I had to turn settings way down to fit in the ram

ViRuS2k · 24 Sep 2009 at 20:36

Anyone for cookies and cream

kablooey · 24 Sep 2009 at 20:36

straxusii said:
GTA4, I tucked this one away for later while I had my 512MB 4870.

5870@stock:

Statistics
Average FPS: 56.13
Duration: 37.25 sec
CPU Usage: 68%
System memory usage: 76%
Video memory usage: 96%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1920 x 1200 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Render Quality: Highest
Reflection Resolution: Very High
Water Quality: Very High
Shadow Quality: Very High
View Distance: 22
Detail Distance: 31
Definition: Off
VSync: Off

Looks like the quad has the biggest effect in GTA4....Why the hell did a take a screenshoh of notepad and uypload it to imageshack when I could have just copied/pasted it like you did...like I even did in the original GTA4 thread? I blame lack of sleep!

straxusii · 24 Sep 2009 at 20:46

kablooey said:
Looks like the quad has the biggest effect in GTA4....Why the hell did a take a screenshoh of notepad and uypload it to imageshack when I could have just copied/pasted it like you did...like I even did in the original GTA4 thread? I blame lack of sleep!

Yes interesting isnt it, even at those high settings if I had a dual core wolfdale at 3.6ghz it would be holding GTA4 back, I'm quite suprised at that.

mmj_uk · 24 Sep 2009 at 20:47

It's a nice card, I did try a 4870x2 but preferred GTX280 to that whereas this is definitely a keeper, clearly faster than the GTX280 but also cool/quiet.

Add to that low power usage/DX11 and all the other improvements it's great value at £300.

Tom|Nbk · 24 Sep 2009 at 20:48

My entire tower at idle is only pulling 112w :|

LeJosh · 24 Sep 2009 at 20:52

What's it like at load Tom? If you can tell.

Monkeynut · 24 Sep 2009 at 20:53

Tom|Nbk said:
My entire tower at idle is only pulling 112w :|

Surely that's a good thing? Or does it make you feel like less of a man?

Tom|Nbk · 24 Sep 2009 at 21:05

Monkeynut said:
Surely that's a good thing? Or does it make you feel like less of a man?

Yea it's outstanding!

I'll load up furmark and prime core see how much its pulling at the absoloute max

Tom|Nbk · 24 Sep 2009 at 21:08

Pulling 300W with Furmark, so more like 250w gaming normal situation.

TheMorningStar · 24 Sep 2009 at 21:30

Winnter said:
My girlfirend says she will buy me a 5850 for Xmas

not quite at that 5870 level of love yet eh..

Phinor · 24 Sep 2009 at 22:18

Tom|Nbk said:
Pulling 300W with Furmark, so more like 250w gaming normal situation.

Damn, an overclocked i5 and a 5870 pulling only 300W. My [email protected] and a mildly overclocked GTX280 hovers at 470-490W under full load. Makes me wonder if it might be worth the electric bill to, cough, let's call it upgrade my poor poor components up to today's standards

Tom|Nbk · 24 Sep 2009 at 22:25

Yea I'm massively impressed!

BTW for anyone that wants to check out some new tech DX11 goodness.

Battlefore is FREE TO PLAY and the DX11 patch was released yesterday, check it out.

http://www.battleforge.com/portal/site/BattleForge/landingpage

555BUK · 24 Sep 2009 at 22:34

Phinor said:
Damn, an overclocked i5 and a 5870 pulling only 300W. My [email protected] and a mildly overclocked GTX280 hovers at 470-490W under full load. Makes me wonder if it might be worth the electric bill to, cough, let's call it upgrade my poor poor components up to today's standards

If you run both pc's at full load for 3 hours, the one with the 5870 & i5 will save you approximately 5p. Assuming you game every day of the year for 3 hours (pretty hard for most people to do), the total saving will be ~£18.

How much did you spend on that i5, mobo & 5870

? After 35-40 years the entire rig will pay for itself.

....I know the performance is much better.

Chronictank · 24 Sep 2009 at 22:34

wow they are pretty awesome min rates tbh, glad to see the card has a bit of umph

Tom|Nbk · 24 Sep 2009 at 22:38

fornowagain said:
You might want to put the overall quality back to very high, custom makes it hard to compare to older runs otherwise.

RavenXXX2 said:
Your crysis bench has the objects set to high..

Sorry guys didn't realise it had taken the recommended settings from in game, I've now redone the benchmark and tbh it's made 2FPS difference, that's the kind of horsepower these suckers have

LeJosh · 24 Sep 2009 at 22:43

For a single GPU card that is seriously impressive.

Lightnix · 24 Sep 2009 at 22:44

Tom|Nbk said:
Yea I'm massively impressed!

BTW for anyone that wants to check out some new tech DX11 goodness.

Battlefore is FREE TO PLAY and the DX11 patch was released yesterday, check it out.

http://www.battleforge.com/portal/site/BattleForge/landingpage

Oh awesome. Any idea as to what improvements DX11 brings to the game? I've not found any interesting information regarding this.

miker1 · 24 Sep 2009 at 22:46

555BUK said:
If you run both pc's at full load for 3 hours, the one with the 5870 & i5 will save you approximately 5p. Assuming you game every day of the year for 3 hours (pretty hard for most people to do), the total saving will be ~£18.

How much did you spend on that i5, mobo & 5870? After 35-40 years the entire rig will pay for itself.

....I know the performance is much better.

KILLJOY!!