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5970 vs 6850 cf if both same price?

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I would double check before buying any used components.Still, the HD 6850 CrossFire setup should be faster, because AMD did a good job with CrossFire scaling with the 6xxx series. Moreover, because of the lack of optimization of the HD 5970, it will give very low minimum FPS in certain games, and as said in the above post, a pair of 6850s are better for tessellation.

Used... Bad choice imo, depending on the seller.

I agree with Tamz. The 6850 is the best bet, as above states. But it all depends, what resolution? Even if the 5970 is OC'd to where each of the downclocked 5870s are to its full potential, the 5xxx series had horrid scaling, so... The 6850 is my bet to win in CF, since the can OC to a 6870's level.

aznshinobi said:
Sorry double post, as you can see, the 6850 already owned the 6970.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/Radeon_HD_6850_C...

Sorry for not mentioning my monitor resolution.It's 1600*900 and i already own a 5850 but i am gona sell it and get either two 6850 or 5970.And yes the minimum fps is very important for me.If any of you guys can give me link with minimum fps comparison amongst gtx 460 sli/6850cf/5970 that would be great.Any way thanks for the replies.

^ Maybe? I mean 1600 is pretty wide, the only thing is the height might be a bit small. How big is the screen? The 6850's in CF shouldn't bottleneck to bad though since an i5 750 does bottleneck on most CF cards, IE CF 5850.

abhishekshukla1989 said:
Sorry for not mentioning my monitor resolution.It's 1600*900 and i already own a 5850 but i am gona sell it and get either two 6850 or 5970.And yes the minimum fps is very important for me.If any of you guys can give me link with minimum fps comparison amongst gtx 460 sli/6850cf/5970 that would be great.Any way thanks for the replies.


If you are most concerned about minimum fps, perhaps you'd be best off with a single 6950 or 6970. For the most part, you should be nearly maxing out most everything with your single 5850 at your resolution. What you can't would certainly be helped by a single 6950.

Crossfired cards are more prone to having just as low of minimum FPS as if you only had 1 card. Not always, but on occation.

aznshinobi said:
^ Maybe? I mean 1600 is pretty wide, the only thing is the height might be a bit small. How big is the screen? The 6850's in CF shouldn't bottleneck to bad though since an i5 750 does bottleneck on most CF cards, IE CF 5850.


The only reason an i5 system would bottleneck, is because you have more GPU power than needed for your resolution. Which in his case, would happen at times, if he went with crossfired 6850's.

Well I know that, but I just really haven't done any bottlenecking research. Because I have a somewhat similar resolution of 1600x1050 and 6850 CF w/ an i5 750 wouldn't bottleneck at this res.

bystander said:
If you are most concerned about minimum fps, perhaps you'd be best off with a single 6950 or 6970. For the most part, you should be nearly maxing out most everything with your single 5850 at your resolution. What you can't would certainly be helped by a single 6950.

Crossfired cards are more prone to having just as low of minimum FPS as if you only had 1 card. Not always, but on occation.

There are two problems in having a single card:-
(i)No single card(Except maybe a heavily OCe'd gtx 580) is able to provide a minimum fps of 30 in games like metro 2033 ,NTW(fraps on)and some other games with everything turned on.
(ii)A gtx 580 costs about 630$ here and 6970 would cost about 480$ ,while i can have 6850 cf for just 420$.
These things make me move away from single card configuration for my next purchase.What are you r thoughts after taking these two things into consideration?

abhishekshukla1989 said:
There are two problems in having a single card:-
(i)No single card(Except maybe a heavily OCe'd gtx 580) is able to provide a minimum fps of 30 in games like metro 2033 ,NTW(fraps on)and some other games with everything turned on.
(ii)A gtx 580 costs about 630$ here and 6970 would cost about 480$ ,while i can have 6850 cf for just 420$.
These things make me move away from single card configuration for my next purchase.What are you r thoughts after taking these two things into consideration?


Looking at this: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-6970-rade...

It appears there is no setup that will get you to 30 min fps in metro 2033.

What is suprising is that a single 6970 is doing better than 6850's in CF.

But my main reason for recommending you to go down the 6950/70 was your desire for higher minimum FPS. CF/SLI solutions sometimes suffer with low min FPS. That and crossfire/SLI setups suffer from a lot of other problems from time to time.
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