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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Video Card Review (BmR)

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AMD has leap-frogged NVIDIA by launching the DirectX 11 compatible Radeon HD 5870 video card. Armed with 1600 shader cores, the 40nm Cypress GPU claims to push video game frame rates well-beyond what NVIDIA offers from their GeForce GTX 285 counterpart. While the list of DirectX 11 video games has just started to grow, with one of the first being a free Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) named Battle Forge. Perhaps ATI has created the perfect storm for their Radeon HD 5800-series by offering a price-competitive graphics card with several free games included or available. While NVIDIA toils away with CUDA and PhysX, ATI is busy delivering the next generation of hardware for the gaming community to enjoy. In this article, Benchmark Reviews compares the Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 video card, model 21161-00-50R, against a cross-section of modern graphics accelerators.
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Das Capitolin - contributor
Published: 36 days 20 hours ago | Review | Tech
 
 

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dchalfont - 36 days 16 hours ago
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Just thought i'd do a quick bench to compare my setup,

Their setup, 6gig ddr3, i7 920, gtx285 ( i compared mine to this as i have a gtx280...wanted to know if my pc was performing right)

my setup: c2q 9450, 4gig ddr2, gtx280, and i beat their gaming benchmarks and 3d mark gpu score

haha @ suckers that spent all that money 'upgrading' for a decrease in performance
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Das Capitolin - 35 days 8 hours ago
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1.1 - There's a difference...
They put all of the hardware and settings used for the test, along with driver versions and software configuration. You didn't list any of that, so for all we know you're matching apples to apple pie.
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mortalrage - 36 days 6 hours ago
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sweet

Nice review.
I love this card. I Built me a new system and was lucky to get one from New egg on day of release.
I replaced my 8800gt X2 in SLI. Got a lot of mileage out of them over the years, now my wife gets them :)
She had a Ati 1950pro AGP xD
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dchalfont - 36 days 5 hours ago
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that's my plan, upgrade my pc, use my pc parts to build another one for the mrs
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