Radeon HD 5870 review

Reading it now, wowzah

hahaha, yeah it looks like I traded up.

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@ Jaydee

Dunno how late I am on this but congrads on becoming a mod

Not late at all, just today actually, and TY

man i can't wait to see the crossX benchies, Think 2 5870 = 4870 X2 quad that actually scales well (or just about).

My estimates since the 5870 is slightly weaker at times and slightly stronger at others, we might see it equal 4870 X2 quadfire.

But again just assumptions.

SCALING FTW!

EDIT

DAmn you jaydee u answered my question before I asked it!

Another for you;
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/Radeon_HD_5870/

Unfortunately nothing from my Fav yet B3D/TechReport.

Reading that brought up the IQ debate again for me.
Essentially it's still theoretical, but interesting none the less, I wonder what this will do with their FirePro range, and if they can enable AA above 8X finally (the Quadros support 32X on a single card).

Seems to be getting a lot of good recommendations in every review. [H] gave it a gold award, guru3d must-have.

Overall, good card, quick, and beats the P/P of everything about the HD 4890/GTX275.

LOL !! CLASSIC !!

I just read Tom's and [H]'s reviews, and it looks like an amazing card.

One thing that I don't understand, though, is how the new "Eyefinity" technology on these cards differs from previous cards. Is there something special about the inputs, or does it allow you to use dual-screen resolutions with games that didn't previously support it?

I first tried dual-screen gaming two years ago; I played Portal on two 19" monitors (2560 x 1024 rez), and that was with an old Radeon X600. If a Radeon X600 could do that, then there's no way that newer cards couldn't do it. What's the difference with Eyefinity (stupid name)?

Same. I feel like it has more hidden potential just waiting to wreak havoc on Nvidia.

Firstly congrats on the Modship sir JDJ
Secondly Anyone have an idea on how long the 5850's will be ? About a week ?
Thanks
Mactronix

PS Love the Batmobile

Damn, are there gonna be any Vets left that are not super mod lords?

This topic has been reopen by TheGreatGrapeApe

ahahaha congrats to both of you on getting Mod superpowers btw. I haven't found any real variation in any reviews, so it's performance seems pretty consistent.

Yeah, in the end it landed about where it was expected to, between the 4870X2 and 295, so no real surprises there. In fact, I was expecting at least a couple compete failures in some games, but I guess since it was so similar to the 4800s what worked on them will work on it. The other encouraging thing (to me at least) was the rumors/previews of some real DX11 games (as in using a lot of DX11 features) coming up sooner than expected. That sure is a relief after DX10's fiasco. That gives me hope that maybe around January I'll have an excuse to grab a 5850 (or NVidia 300, best to keep an open mind). I also really like the idle power on these cards, though I would like a comparo between these and the newest revision 4850/70's, as I am amazed at my XFX 4850. It barely runs its fan at all, yet it stays in the 40C idle 60C max range (I wish I had measured the power of my old 4850 before moving it over to my other system).

And congrats JDJ. I thought it must have been recent, because I don't remember seeing you as a mod until just now.