Friday, September 18th 2009
Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850 Smile for the Camera
Here are the fist pictures of Sapphire's Radeon HD 5800 series offerings: Radeon HD 5870 1GB and Radeon HD 5850. The cards sport the usual sticker design of a CGI girl in a reddish background. With these cards having the cosmetic "red-streak" cleaving the cooler shroud in the center, the so is the sticker. This is also perhaps the first public picture of the Radeon HD 5850, and our size projections were right: While the Radeon HD 5870 maintains a long PCB, the HD 5850 is about as long as a Radeon HD 4870 (reference design). Both accelerators stick to the reference AMD design.
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148 Comments on Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850 Smile for the Camera
I can telll you right now that the rv770 on a 4850 is quite limited by its memory bandwidth.
The last time we saw identical cards was the HD2900XT and HD2900Pro, and eventually ATi changed the HD2900Pro to use a 256-bit bus instead of the 512-bit like the HD2900XT. When has memory speeds NOT enhanced performance? Never...so your logic is flawed. Yes, lowering the memory bandwidth by moving to GDDR3 would have hurt performance, so does crippling the core. The whole point of BOTH is to hinder performance. ATi has never used this strategy to hinder performance right out of the starting block. The cards don't need GDDR5 to perform well.
I don't believe that a HD5850 with GDDR3 would perform that much worse than the incarnation we are seeing here.
HD4350 - HD550 only difference is memory type and you get quite a nice boost.
Sure faster/wider memory is nicer, sure clocking higher the core makes it faster. Also sure is that the people at DAAMIT who designed the cards have at least a vague idea what to do in order to hit the market segments they need to. And this is what it's all about.
I’ve bought ASUS, HIS, EVGA, BFG, XFX and haven’t had a problem with any.
i just hope it lasts more than five minuets
as i want a card with good performance and longevity
Yet HD 5850 looks better than the HD 5870, but meh i'll probly take the sticker off, never now might lower core temp by 1 degree :p
Is this real? Is the one above real wtf? CPU scores look a little squwiff :D
im sure there both fake tbh.
EDIT wait?
thats a HD4890 lol
I was curious about the 5xxx GPU-Z screeny and posted up 4890 results for comparison.
I remember reading here on TPU that Wiz has not yet released a version of GPU-Z supporting the 5xxx series cards.
P.S I see your sig is fake too :p
Going back on topic now though them cards do look great . I wonder why the vent on the back is so small?
forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1552086&postcount=716
and yes ^_^ premature i guess :D