Is my HD 5850 performance ok?

[Dual]

Hello,

I purchased a 5850 a little while back and im getting roughly 40 frames in crysis wars (online) with everything on lowest settings @ 1920x1200.

I am also getting some stutter or lag now and then when it drops to nearly 20.

I previously owned a 8800GTX and didnt have any lag from that.

Is that the right amount of performance?

-Dual

 

[InfiniteNoise]

Not sure about Crysis Wars but that doesn't sound right.

On Crysis with everything on Very High settings @ 1920x1080 I get 40+ FPS (drops to 20-30 for a moment during heavy moments) on my 5850 (850 core/1000 memory)

 

[=XDC=FluphyBunny]

Try and download a benchmark program (3d Mark maybe) and run it then come back with the GPU score plus the rest of your system. Very hard to compare in game performance.

 

[muppet]

hi
what cpu do you have . is your gpu overclocked , they are still very fast cards
cheers

 

[pcpietrek]

Is only Crysis you have a problem with or other games running slow as well?

 

[j.col]

hi
what cpu do you have . is your gpu overclocked , they are still very fast cards
cheers

this^^^ what is your cpu,and how much ram have you? and is the cpu overclocked.
A good way is to compare the card to other HD5850's, so go here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18249292
Download the program, and run it with the settings mentioned in the link.
Then compare your score with other HD5850's in the list,

 

[Dual]

Hey guys,
Thanks for replying,

I have a Q6600 CPU @ 3Ghz
(was at stock but just put upto 3ghz thats helped a lot about 40 to 50fps)
AND 2GB of Ballistix ddr2 ram @800mhz

I'm running the game at the moment 85% physical memory and about 40% cpu usage (on task manager)

All low settings 1920x1200 @50fps average but sometimes I get 'shudders' when it jults down a bit to about 20fps.
The shudders only last about 2 seconds but happen frequently, enough to get annoyed.

I don't have any other games to test out really. But bfme 2 runs fine although its 6 years old so it wouldn't matter. Actually I have crysis 2 im going to install and try that I'll get back to you on performance.

@stuartw_b I'm downloading the benchmark now thanks.

Thanks
-Dual

 

[d_brennen]

2GB RAM will be hurting it a bit too

 

[C64]

The 5850 has some nice overclocking headroom I'd look at overcocking it and increasing the q6600 to at least 3.2 ghz

 

[Dual]

Got Results

Hey

I got the results from the heaven benchmark


So seems like the card is fine.

I'm guessing something else is causing it

Windows thinks its the RAM.

-Dual

 

[ChrisD.]

RAM upgrade time.

 

[Dual]

I'm still using a DDR2 motherboard not DDR3 compatiable, is it worth upgrading the RAM?