HIS Radeon HD 5850 1 GB

mdm-adph · Oct 2, 2009

W1zzard said:
it's 9.7 actually. what kept me from giving a 10? it's not the best price/perf wise, the fan could be quieter, it could be available in masses and the shaders unlockable. neither of these is impossible or unrealistic.

Where would it have to be on this chart for you to consider it one of the best price/perf wise?

As good as a 4770, at least?

I think that'd be around $180 or so -- the perfect sweet spot for a 5850.

rpsgc · Oct 2, 2009

W1zzard said:
it's 9.7 actually.

Lies!!!11one~

but they're the same size here

Apocolypse007 · Oct 2, 2009

mdm-adph said:
Where would it have to be on this chart for you to consider it one of the best price/perf wise?

As good as a 4770, at least?

I think that'd be around $180 or so -- the perfect sweet spot for a 5850.

They won't go near that price until ATI can flush out their 4000 series stock. They would have to seriously discount their 4850's and 4870's for example. Great for consumers, but not realistic profitwise for the company.

W1zzard · Oct 2, 2009

mdm-adph said:
I think that'd be around $180 or so -- the perfect sweet spot for a 5850.

yep something like that

newtekie1 · Oct 2, 2009

mdm-adph said:
Where would it have to be on this chart for you to consider it one of the best price/perf wise?

http://tpucdn.com/reviews/HIS/HD_5850/images/perfdollar.gif

As good as a 4770, at least?

I think that'd be around $180 or so -- the perfect sweet spot for a 5850.

Well, there are 22 cards in that chart, so I would say at least 11th spot or higher is a good spot to be considered one of the best.

cbupdd · Oct 2, 2009

W1zzard said:
added gpuz 1 ghz. temps in the high 80s, stock cooler of course

Oh, thank you! this card rocks :rockout:

zCexVe · Oct 2, 2009

Nice review W1zz,As always.
Can't wait till a card arrive with a non-reference cooler and a single 6 pin connector. And Ihope there will be a price cut on this thing

OneCool · Oct 2, 2009

W1zzard,I didnt like your review.Please send me a 5850 to test for myself

Really looks to be a solid card.Could be cheaper but that will come.

HTC · Oct 3, 2009

Great review: awesome!

I assume you only have 1 5850 @ your disposal, @ the moment, unfortunately

I would really like to know crossfire performance as well as temps. If @ all possible, i also would like to know if 2 5850s next to each other and 2 5850s as separated as possible in the motherboard have different temps and, if so, how much.

Is there a crossfire review for 5850s planned? If so, any chance you could also include trifire or even quadfire?

trt740 · Oct 3, 2009

W1zzard is there any advantage besides Dx11 to owning this card over a 280 gtx /285 gtx if you already have one. I'm talking over clocked.

DaMulta · Oct 3, 2009

Printable review look is broke......

This card is epic kool, and I wonder how the 5850x2 will turn out to be.

jaredpace · Oct 3, 2009

trt740 said:
W1zzard is there any advantage besides Dx11 to owning this card over a 280 gtx /285 gtx if you already have one. I'm talking over clocked.

mostly just slightly more performance, cooler temps, more overclocking headroom, eyefinity, better AF, faster 8xAA, and it costs less (but you already have the 285). If you could get $300 for your gtx285 on ebay or something, then you could upgrade and save money.

troyrae360 · Oct 3, 2009

Ive noticed that no one is reviewing these cards with 8xAA i wonder if theres a reson for this,
The first actual revew of the 5870 i read was benching at 8xAA and it was absolutley smashing other cards

glenboy · Oct 3, 2009

thanks wizzard, the review of the 5850's is just what i've been waiting for and the card overclocks as i expected and hoped and with having the same memory chip as its bigger brother makes it even better and i've just ordered 3 on the strength of your review, shame the extra shaders can't be unlocked, but i think with leaving the rops the same as the 5870 when overclocked i think the difference in 3d scores will be negligible apart from at a very high resolution, but i think overclocked with 3 of these babies it won't make much difference,

whens the brilliant gputool going to be publically available

thanks wizz

WarEagleAU · Oct 3, 2009

I agree with the power consumption, it is kick ass on that. Love the overclocks too. I wish they would unlock their shaders, this really seems to be one area in which Nvidia excels and AMD could learn to use it.

btarunr · Oct 3, 2009

WarEagleAU said:
I agree with the power consumption, it is kick ass on that. Love the overclocks too. I wish they would unlock their shaders, this really seems to be one area in which Nvidia excels and AMD could learn to use it.

NVIDIA excels at unlocking shaders? Teach me how to turn my GTX 260 into a GTX 275.

kylzer · Oct 3, 2009

I ordered just based off this review so it better be good

chaotic_uk · Oct 3, 2009

why do ati/amd rate the card @ 188w when this review says 144w for the 5870 ?

edit : whoops wrong review lol

Scrizz · Oct 3, 2009

awesome,
I'll get a pair to replace my 4850s

anyone interested in 4850s?

wolf · Oct 3, 2009

Scrizz said:
awesome,
I'll get a pair to replace my 4850s

anyone interested in 4850s?

Thats exactly what I was thinking, and Like I thought, IMO its well worth getting these over 5870's, as the memory is the same and should clock to ~1250mhz, and the core with extra volts will do 1ghz, have seen this in a few places now..... I want so bad!

newtekie1 · Oct 3, 2009

btarunr said:
NVIDIA excels at unlocking shaders? Teach me how to turn my GTX 260 into a GTX 275.

I believe he meant unlock the power of their shaders, as in having 1600 getting beat by 512...(or 800 getting beat by 240 if you want a comparision that is guaranteed)

Of course, he also might have meant unlock the shader clock from the core clock...

I don't think he meant unlock in the way you are using the term unlock.

Velvet Wafer · Oct 3, 2009

W1zzard said:
let me get that for you .. after my döner kebab

how can you eat that? :laugh:

i had a severe döner intoxication a few years ago, and since then, cant eat any turkish spices anymore. i want to puke instantly

i believe in ati architecture, you have to clock the shaders and the rops equally, the high amount of shaders is needed to operate useable at low clocks

cbupdd · Oct 3, 2009

Currently I have an ati x300se :cry:

I want a 5850 but the price in Europe is 290€ -> 425 USD This hurts...
I will need a favor from someone in US..

wolf · Oct 3, 2009

Hey W1z, any chance we can get some overclocked performance numbers @ 1ghz core/1250 memory?

Zehnsucht · Oct 3, 2009

cbupdd said:
Currently I have an ati x300se
I want a 5850 but the price in Europe is 290€ -> 425 USD This hurts...
I will need a favor from someone in US..

Wow that is expensive, where do you live?
Here it's at 225€, which is pretty nice, but I'll wait until it drops to 177€ which should happen in a reasonable timeframe.

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