AMD’s Radeon HD 5850: The Other Shoe Drops
by Ryan Smith on September 30, 2009 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Resident Evil 5
The latest installment of Capcom’s popular survival horror series just arrived for PCs a few days ago. As is often the case with console ports, it’s not particularly GPU starved, and can crank out high numbers on just about anything.
The 5850 once again defeats all earlier cards, and the 5850 Crossfire does the same to all multi-GPU solutions. Here we also see AMD’s fortunes reverse on the multi-GPU scaling front, where the GTX 285 SLI doesn’t beat the 5850 Crossfire like it has in past benchmarks.
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bigboxes - Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - link
Well, you meant YOUR HTPC case. Not all HTPCs are limited to half-cards. Although, I thik that these fan blower cooling solutions are horrible for HTPC applications with their horrible whine. It may be awhile until aftermarket solutions are out for this new line.NA1NSXR - Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - link
...thats what he said.gigahertz20 - Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - link
I'm surprised it performs so closely with the 5870 yet cooler running and doesn't demand so much from your power supply. I think this is my next card come Christmas time, unless Nvidia releases some details about their next generation GPU's along with expected prices before then.I've read rumors that we will not see any Nvidia cards for sale until next year...ouch, but I'm betting they release before Christmas. Missing the holiday buying season would be a real stupid move for Nvidia.
melgross - Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - link
It isn't a matter of stupid. It's a matter of what they can do. If they can do it, we know they will, but if they can't, well, that's a problem.blanarahul - Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - link
These younger brothers of the fastest parts are always great.GTX 570, 470, 260, 8800 GTS all were superb value cards with high performance!