Thread: Killing Crysis -- ATI's Next Gen

Given the popularity of gaming trackers here, I just thought some of you guys might be interested in the benchmarks of ATI's latest card. Should be interesting once Nvidia gets its cards out on shelves.

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Thoughts?

Tom's benchies have always been a little suspect but nevertheless if the hd 5 series makes as big of a splash at price and value as the 4850/4870 series cards everyone will benefit from that.

its interesting because my 2 gtx 260's hit 45 fps on clearsky in 1920x1200. I havn't overclocked them yet either so it is quite suspicious.

Couple more comparisons.






Of course, it will be interesting to see how it stacks up against the gt300's when they come out.

Originally Posted by ethicks

its interesting because my 2 gtx 260's hit 45 fps on clearsky in 1920x1200. I havn't overclocked them yet either so it is quite suspicious.

Clearsky dominated my system at the time: Q6600, 4870, 4gb ddr2, x-fi. Even at only 1600x1200, with the eye-candy turned on things slowed to a crawl.

If I can keep frames above 50, I will be happy.

In all reality, I won't jump on the 5000-series bandwagon until the X2 comes out. I may even wait for Nvidia to get their products out so that prices will drop.

If any of you don't know, the 5870 is debuting at 399 and the 5850 is debuting at 299. Thats about 100 USD more than the 4000-series...

My guess is that when team green gets their cards out, ati will one-two punch them with a $100 price drop.


OT: Tom's benches show the 5870 a little slower than I expected.

lol @ and agree with staff. I always laugh when I see these graphs of next gen fabs vs. current gen. So I'm assuming they are going to compare 4850/4870/4890's when the gt300's launch? Hm.

Wait Nvidia will do something new? Surely it'll be another spin off 8800GT???

This card looks promising but my HD4850 1GB is here to stay. Are there any power consumption figures out? Usually shows how good the die was and wether there is room for clocking...

Originally Posted by gt3mad

Are there any power consumption figures out? U

DirectX 11 in the Open: ATI Radeon HD 5870 Review (page 7) - X-bit labs

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Originally Posted by mecht

DirectX 11 in the Open: ATI Radeon HD 5870 Review (page 7) - X-bit labs

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Those figures show another design win from AMD. Hats off to them.

Temperatures seem to show there is room for more too, I guess they have the 5890 planned if GT300 gets too powerful.

But really I think larrabee is probably the bigger threat.