HIS Radeon HD 5850 1 GB

[rpsgc]

On another note, does anyone here actually owns the card? People say it's pretty quiet, but then again I have a different definition of what is "quiet"
I'm torn between buying a reference card now or waiting for custom cards to come out. Sapphire's Vapor-X is usually quiet enough.

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

its an increase nonetheless, and a linear one

 

[wolf]

The notion of the memory holding the card back makes me want to sit on this one for a while without adding another or whatever X2 variant there is for Trifire and wait on something with 2gb of memory and some SERIOUS bandwidth, I'm sure some company was talking big about 7gb/s GDDR5 in Q4 last year, here we are a year later and stock clocks are 4.8 gb/s.

I bought one anyway because the performance is pretty darn nice for a single GPU, but I honestly expected more, I mean at least 5.5-6gb/s given what I just mentioned.

EDIT: here's one link - http://www.multicoreinfo.com/2008/11/hynix-worlds-fastest-gddr5/ - but I'm pretty sure it made a news story here on TPU.

Second EDIT: BAM - http://www.techpowerup.com/77290/Hynix_7GT_s_GDDR5_Chip_to_Make_it_to_Major_SKUs_R700_Included.html

 

[cbupdd]

The notion of the memory holding the card back makes me want to sit on this one for a while without adding another or whatever X2 variant there is for Trifire and wait on something with 2gb of memory and some SERIOUS bandwidth, I'm sure some company was talking big about 7gb/s GDDR5 in Q4 last year, here we are a year later and stock clocks are 4.8 gb/s.

I bought one anyway because the performance is pretty darn nice for a single GPU, but I honestly expected more, I mean at least 5.5-6gb/s given what I just mentioned.

EDIT: here's one link - http://www.multicoreinfo.com/2008/11/hynix-worlds-fastest-gddr5/ - but I'm pretty sure it made a news story here on TPU.

Second EDIT: BAM - http://www.techpowerup.com/77290/Hynix_7GT_s_GDDR5_Chip_to_Make_it_to_Major_SKUs_R700_Included.html

You can expect in April a new radeon hd '5890' with this mem. or a 384bits bus.. Just with 950mhz core and some more bandwidth, like 4870->4890.. and then some non-reference at 1ghz core. 1/2 year left...

 

[Scrizz]

still a mighty fine card
I want a 6-monitor edition

 

[vagxtr]

On another note, does anyone here actually owns the card? People say it's pretty quiet, but then again I have a different definition of what is "quiet"

It's all closed up so you could claim it's quiet

Anyway it's probably much quieter than few claimed silent (ultrasilent) ones that have in a row from hd3870 to hd4870. They all had more or less squealing ferrite coils when they are under stress, that's just more crappy cards flying around since hd3800 series is out and even 1st tier producer like Sappire is not prone to that. I cant simply understood how can they put pure silent pipe cooling or even vaporx thats in the end much quieter than card itself And i'm use to some air blowing sound more than to some irritating noise coming out of the card. No it's not psu or the mobo but the cards.

 

[wolf]

still a mighty fine card
I want a 6-monitor edition

Maybe if they ship it with 6 active adapters.... not many people will be willing to buy that or fork out for all DP monitors.