8800GT vs HD5850

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Just exactly how much better is an ATi HD5850 than a nVidia 8800 GT?
 
Infinitly better. I am not sure you give a good comparision because the 8800GT is a few generations back and I haven't see it on any recent reviews in benchmarks. There really is no comparision. I would ballpark a number to saythe 5850 is 3x the performance of an 8800GT.
 

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The 5850 is definitely better. It's still around today under the name of the 9800gt and all of the cards based off of the the G92 core 9600GT, GTS 250, etc. I would say that the 5850 is at least 2 if not 3x faster than the 8800GT. It is also very dependent one you resolution. If you use a high resolution then the 5850 will destroy the 8800GT, but at lower resolutions it wouldn't matter as long as you get at least 60 FPS.
 
Wow. Yeah, no comparison between the two cards. The ATI 5850 is an absolute ton faster.

The 8800GT is lesser than the GTS 250, which is lesser than the GTX 260. And the ATI 5850 is quite a bit faster than the GTX 260.

You're looking at 2 to 3 graphic card generations between the 8800GT and ATI 5850.
 

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lol... You should look up benchmarks. Easy question really but the answer is not as simple as ~ 43 FPS because it depends on sooo many other variables. If you have a single core P4 then you will not notice a difference between an 8800 and a 5850.
 
5970 is two 5870 chips put together, but then underclocked to get in under 300W. You can overclock it back up to 5870 speeds (in theory) and then have the equivalent of 2x5870. In its stock state, it performs similar to 2x5850 like rolli said.
 
8800 gt is bout where the 9500 gt is

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You are referring to the G80 8800GTS cards that were released with the 8800GTX. The GTS flavor came with 320mb and 640mb but the GTX had 768mb. The first release of the G92 offered 8800GT with 256mb and 512mb and a GTS with 512mb. Later these 512mb cards were renamed to 9800gt and 9800gtx respectively.
 




You're both part right, part wrong.

There are three 8800GTS models.

8800 GTS 320MB G80

8800 GTS 640MB G80

8800 GTS 512MB G92

:) They are listed in order of performance, with the lesser card at the top.

The 8800 GTS 512MB is better than the 8800GT / 9800GT. Interestingly, the 8800 GTS 512MB molded into what nVidia called the 9800GTX+, and that was then turned into the GTS 250.
 

the 8800GTS 512 was turned into 9800GTX. The GTX+ came later on a smaller die with higher clock and changed into GTS250. All of my statements are right! We have just been clarifying that 8800GT 512mb which is G92 is the same as 9800GT 512mb G92.
I posted about the G92 8800GTS higher up in the thread.