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***The Official ATI Radeon HD 5850 / 5870 Reviews and Discussion Thread***

[timko];14951060 said:
If you knew this then surely that should have made you wait for the Asus rather than the Sapphires you are getting now, no? :)
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Asus was a example to the rule as they have a good clocking program already.
but all the usual overclocking programs we use will be updated soon to let us do that very same thing ;)

so no all cards currently out are all the same apart from the sticker there for they all have the chance to shine when overclocked with higher gpu voltage and clocks ;)
 
Guys, I don't really want to sift right through this thread to see if anyone else has asked this, but is the only difference between the 5870 and 5850 their clock speeds??

Looking at the benchies, the performance is really good on the 5850, it only seems to be a little bit slower than the 5870.

Can anyone confirm if the clock speeds is the only difference, or if there is more to it than this.

Thanks
 
Ahhh, What a dumb ass, I never saw that!

I really don't know whether I should upgrade once new stock arrives.. I know that I dont NEED to, but I would really like a new toy to play with!!
 
DavyBoy said:
Ahhh, What a dumb ass, I never saw that!
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This should help...

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Courtesy of http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/Radeon_HD_5870/
 
Vertigo1 said:
Interesting! I stand corrected, didn't realise they'd done that.

Are they all single PCB models now then?
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As far as I know - both the 4870x2 and GTX 295 are single PCB, dual GPU solutions.

And they suck so much power it's hilarious, hence my mild evangelism of the 5850 over the 4870x2 - slightly less grunt, but DX11, 20w idle, 100W load [a quarter and a half of the 4870s figures respectively] and still as quick as a 285GTX and none of that Crossfire/SLI malarky either.

God, at this rate I'm going to have to buy one to prove the point to myself or some other equally bizarre rationalisation I can come up with :eek:
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
yeah but usually GPU's dont overclock very well tbh.. some hardly even 50mhz
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which GPUs don't overclock very well ? - not meaning to be deliberatly obtrusive - just wondering what made you say that ?

8800GTX overclocked very well

4890 overclocked very well

and didn't the GTX260/275/285s all overclock very well ?
 
Tom|Nbk said:
Heads up for anyone that already has a card or is recieving one tommorow

8.66 RC6 Windows 7 Sep 14 Build

is available on the ATi site, these are slightly newer than the ones most reviewers used and probs newer than the ones on the CD
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Link ? cant find them lol
 
Buckster said:
which GPUs don't overclock very well ? - not meaning to be deliberatly obtrusive - just wondering what made you say that ?

8800GTX overclocked very well

4890 overclocked very well

and didn't the GTX260/275/285s all overclock very well ?
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Well i'm not so up to date on clocking of the latest cards but i know for sure older ones didnt clock very much at all
 
My 8800GTS:
530 core
1300 shader
850 memory

Clocked:
620 core
1620 shader
1000 memory

I'd say that was quite well on a stock cooler?
 
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