• 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.

** Official omg I just got my 5870 thread **

magicroundabout said:
so basically those games are optimized through Nvidia for SLI are only just keeping up with the 5870 in crossfire on beta drivers.

http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone2_game.html
Click to expand...

OK, but on the whole, did you not expect Xfire performance from the 5870 to yield better results, even at launch?

I did, particularly given the single card performance which is impressive.

It remains, at this moment in time for true dual card solutions, SLI 285's offer much better value for similar performance. Haven't been able to say that about NV for a while.
 
gurusan said:
mind posting up a gpu-z and a screenshot of the sensors page wtih VRM temps and such?
Click to expand...

Sure!

Im on the 21st Sept drivers straight off the AMD site by the way.

gpuz.jpg
 
HummuH1 said:
OK, but on the whole, did you not expect Xfire performance from the 5870 to yield better results, even at launch?

I did, particularly given the single card performance which is impressive.

It remains, at this moment in time for true dual card solutions, SLI 285's offer much better value for similar performance. Haven't been able to say that about NV for a while.
Click to expand...

not in crossfire no. as a single unit yes.

So far it hasn't let anyone down on that front

you need to allow ATI some room for driver improvements for crossfire and also the single unit too.

Depending which review you read then yes 285's in SLI offer better performance over Crossfire but for me personally a single gpu unit which offers better performance over my 2 4870's and draws so much less power is a winner. whether that be ATI or Nvidia.
 
magicroundabout said:
the 285 came out in Jan of this year if i remember rightly?!
Click to expand...


Just had a peek, think the first GTX's came out June last year, so was a fair bit out in my calculations. Even at that, around 1.5 years old technology to keep up and better todays is still pretty impressive. Think I'll wait for the 5870x2.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom