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First 5830 Review
- Thread starter gurusan
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It's not actually voltage limitations...as I put voltage through mine (and I had a couple different ones), and I think the best OC I got was like 810 or 820Mhz or something.....whereas on my old 512mb model i was fully stable at 875MHz at stock vGPU and benchable at over 900MHz.
The GPU itself had some sort of design limitation with 1Gb memory and clocking....something which was obviously fixed with the 4890
The GPU itself had some sort of design limitation with 1Gb memory and clocking....something which was obviously fixed with the 4890
Right, but the 4870 has much better bandwidth, shame they gimped the 5770
Soldato
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They had to, otherwise it would be too close to the 5850.
Dunno tbh the 5850 has a good lead I don't even think the extra bandwidth would make up for almost half the shaders and more rops etc
Let's hope this means a price drop for the 5770 so I can finally get a second one!
Caporegime
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I really don't know why anyone thinks they should get within 20% performance that often, if it costs 20% less. 99% of that they sell will never be overclocked and its priced where it should be.
In reality if they sell well it could lead to a small price reduction on 5850/5870's, as they are salvaging more parts per wafer, which would be good.
In reality, they just wanted to make a cheaper card that beats a 260-275gtx properly(unlike a 5770) and sell it inbetween the cards they currently have.
Fact is the 5850 is a truly stupendous card for an enthusiast, and a cut down 5850 was always going to be gimped so to an overclocking enthusiast it wouldn't be as good on price/performance.
In reality if they sell well it could lead to a small price reduction on 5850/5870's, as they are salvaging more parts per wafer, which would be good.
In reality, they just wanted to make a cheaper card that beats a 260-275gtx properly(unlike a 5770) and sell it inbetween the cards they currently have.
Fact is the 5850 is a truly stupendous card for an enthusiast, and a cut down 5850 was always going to be gimped so to an overclocking enthusiast it wouldn't be as good on price/performance.
True, but performance-wise they're not outdoing 8800GT 512mb's by much, the only real additional feature is DX11 which it probably won't handle very well in a single-card config, so in terms of price to performance I wouldn't say they were stellar....
They really are. According to the techpowerup average scores posted there the 9800 GT is 66% the speed of the 5770 HAWX edition. That's 34% slower. That means the 5770 is about 51% faster, it's still quite a lot faster... Edit:
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I'll have to read in to this, if it's true and more than one place verifies it I might grab one myself!
LOL
Just what I read, apparently incorrect...
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ooooo! completely forgot about these anybody fancy telling me when they're likely to actually be available? Or is it unknown? Might not bother with a 5850 don't need that much firepower to be fair
