AMD’s Radeon HD 5850: The Other Shoe Drops
by Ryan Smith on September 30, 2009 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Crysis: Warhead
Kicking things off, we’ll start with Crysis: Warhead. Warhead is still the single most demanding game in our arsenal, with cards continuing to struggle to put out a playable frame rate with everything turned up.
With Crysis: Warhead being so GPU limited, we see a pretty standard breakdown of GPU performance. The 5850 loses only to the 5870 for single-GPU cards. The 5850 Crossfire on the other hand gives us some surprising results, losing to the GTX 285 in SLI in spite of a single 5850 beating a single GTX 285. Clearly NVIDIA is getting better multi-GPU scaling out of Warhead than AMD is.
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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!