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Benchmarks for AT HD 5870

Actually they appear to be running without the latest SLI profiles for some of those games from comparisions against the 285... and in others the 295GTX would be running out of VRAM at those settings (slide 67)... so its not really as impressive as first seems at all.
 
According to that graph, a 5870 is only 20% faster than a GTX285 on Crysis Warhead @ 4xAA + 8xAF. Is the dotted line the average speed increase? So 45% better than a GTX285 overall...
 
Anyone explain why all graphs are 5870 vs GTX 285, and not the GTX 295?

Sounds to me like the graph would not favour the 5870 much, otherwise you would compare the best single current GPU surely? not 2nd best:confused:
 
I wouldn't even consider those benchies, all done by AMD, so they bound to show their cards are faster lol, i'll wait for the proper reviews next week. :)
 
LoadsaMoney said:
I wouldn't even consider those benchies, all done by AMD, so they bound to show their cards are faster lol, i'll wait for the proper reviews next week. :)
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Assuming these benches come directly from AMD - which would imply a best case scenario for AMD, aren't they rather lacklustre seeing as the vast majority of the 4xAA benches are only between 20% and 40% faster than a GTX285?
 
It looks to be about 30% faster on average than a (reference?) GTX285, only when FSAA is increased to 8x does it destroy the GTX285 and that's down to NVidia's poor 8x performance more than anything.
 
Remember how the GTX280 completely destroyed the 9800GX2 and was not slower in any benchmarks at all when first released?
 
the GX2 was all over the GTX280 I seem to rember lol but the X2 when that came out was like wow
 
Even if the 5870 is only a bit faster than a 295, it will cheaper and will use a shedload of power less.
This all helps
 
tbh i think it slightly concerning that full benchies are not available yet.
(I could be wrong) but I recall that when the 4870x2 was released, benchmarks were available a good while before the card was out.
 
D13 said:
tbh i think it slightly concerning that full benchies are not available yet.
(I could be wrong) but I recall that when the 4870x2 was released, benchmarks were available a good while before the card was out.
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The 4870x2 was not a new gen & its was easy to extrapolate its performance from 2 4870s
 
D13 said:
tbh i think it slightly concerning that full benchies are not available yet.
(I could be wrong) but I recall that when the 4870x2 was released, benchmarks were available a good while before the card was out.
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A lot of the preliminary 4870 X2 benchmarks were just 4870 crossfire reviews with sensationalist titles if I'm remembering correctly.
 
Final8y said:
The 4870x2 was not a new gen & its was easy to extrapolate its performance from 2 4870s
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thats a good point, but also the x2 blew the living crap out of the 280.
Also 5870 is literally due to be released next week, I mean seriously now is a good time to really hype its perf.

I'm not too bothered though, personally if a single gpu can outperform a 4870x2 without the pain of dual gpu, i will find it hard to resist it assuming its not too costly
 
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