Monday, September 14th 2009
First Radeon HD 5870 Performance Figures Surface
Here are some of the first performance figures of AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 5870 published by a media source. Czech Gamer posted performance numbers of the card compared to current heavyweights including Radeon HD 4870 X2, Radeon HD 4890, and GeForce GTX 285. Having not entered an NDA with AMD, the source was liberal with its performance projections citing AMD's internal testing that include the following, apart from the two graphs below:
Update: Here are allegedly AMD's own performance figures sourced from Chinese website ChipHell.com.
Sources:
Czech Gamer, ChipHell
- Radeon HD 5870 is anywhere between 5~155 percent faster than GeForce GTX 285. That's a huge range, and leaves a lot of room for uncertainty.
- When compared to GeForce GTX 295, its performance ranges between -25 percent (25% slower) to 95 percent (almost 2x faster), another broad range.
- When two HD 5870 cards are set up in CrossFire, the resulting setup is -5 percent (5% slower) to 90 percent faster than GeForce GTX 295. Strangely, the range maximum is lesser than that on the single card.
- When three of these cards are setup in 3-way CrossFireX, the resulting setup is 10~160 percent faster than a GeForce GTX 295.
- The Radeon HD 5850 on the other hand, can be -25 percent (25% slower) to 120 percent faster than GeForce GTX 285.
265 Comments on First Radeon HD 5870 Performance Figures Surface
BTW I posted these here first.
Had 3DMark Not disabled PhysX for NVIDIA cards this would be funny....
In any case wait for real reviews before judging any product, by NVIDIA or AMD.
I only trust techpowerup and guru3d reviews...
Synthetic benchmarks mean squat anyway and the card isnt even out yet so we're seeing what seems to be premature drivers from that range of improvement.
forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1334677&postcount=2969
100percent faster almost than the GTX295 in wolfenstein, i can't even believe that
I hope I can grab my 5870 in this month :)
Do not expect ATI to post Game Benches that favor NVIDIA cards and vice versa.
Out does a card with two gpus in quite a lot of games!
And its not to far behind in the ones its not, amazing for a single gpu.
Just to make sure nothing will bottleneck my next dream computer.
That being said...it does show its potential and I fully expect it being a contender for the fastest card out there and without a doubt the quickest single-GPU card.
The GTX295 was only about 15-30% faster than a 4870X2, and given that the X2 had a massive price-drop (down to £240 in places) and then went out of stock about a month ago, it made sense that that price/performance zone was where ATI were going to position their new hardware.
But yeah, all that is very very vague. It doesn't even say whether it is a 1GB or 2GB model.
23rd is booked in as a review reading day.
b) yes, it may be "twice" as powerful but if it uses twice the wattage you can forget it.
We need new, graphically intensive games since they tell the story of future games and not games based on old dusty engines.
PhysX does matter. 3D Vision can be fun.
It looks a lot better then I thought it would.
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