The Official HD 5800 Series Review thread

[Treeckcold57]

Looks like ATI Radeon 5770/5750 should be out on October 8.

[jam2k]

Reviews and availability please.

[Treeckcold57]

Reviews and availability please.

Not yet. But here's link for ya.

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15838/1/

[Moskus]

Same here.

Got a 4870 1GB and looking to get a 5850. Running a E6750 Core 2 Duo and wondering if its worth the upgrade.

I had 2 4870 in crossfire, now im using 1 5870, and that gave me 10-20% performance boost + the games looks better on the samme settings.

[jam2k]

1920x1200 8xAA / 16xAF

- 5850 %33 faster than 4870
- 5850 %20 faster than GTX 285


Link

[Crisler]

If you want to add it to the list my 5850 review has been posted on my blog..

5850... The Dragon Gets Some Teeth

[meerkat154]

My MSI 5870 is too large for the case. I had to remove my HD drive bay and my two hard drives are hanging outsite the case. Watch out if you plan to buy a 5870 that you have enough room in your case. It's a good 2-3 inches longer than the 4870.
-Kat

[jam2k]

If you want to add it to the list my 5850 review has been posted on my blog..

5850... The Dragon Gets Some Teeth

Thanks, added to the list.

[Lupine]

jam2k, do you want us to split the 57xx stuff into a separate thread, or have this one renamed to to include both 58xx & 57xx?

EDIT: HD 5700 discussion - GO HERE!

[jam2k]

Thanks for splitting the thread !

BTW we might need a 59xx thread sooner than expected

[Exposed]

http://www.amazon.com/XFX-RADEON-5870-Express-HD587AZNF9/dp/B002Q5V704/ref=sr_1_2/184-9863787-2668633?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1255551140&sr=1-2

Don't you just love marketing? Take a look a the DX10/DX11 comparison pics, and the bit about tessellaton concerning cloth and wind interaction

[{0}Salamander{0}]

Sorry for perhaps asking a stoopid question, but what tools are people using to overclock this card? Is there a tool to increase clockspeeds and voltages or do you have to use two different tools for each?

[SIrPauly]

Here is a review of Sapphire Vapor X card:

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/25111-sapphire-radeon-hd-5870-vapor-x-1gb-review.html

[jam2k]

Thanks, added to the main list.

[caveman-jim]

Rage3D's Sapphire HD5870 Vapor-X review (and 'HD5900' simluation!)

[jam2k]

Added PCPop's 5870 Eyefinity Edition review.

[cmar]

My MSI 5870 is too large for the case. I had to remove my HD drive bay and my two hard drives are hanging outsite the case. Watch out if you plan to buy a 5870 that you have enough room in your case. It's a good 2-3 inches longer than the 4870.

I was considering one now, and then a second later 5770's I guess this now confirms this for me. A 4890 or 4870X2 will just fit in my case.

[moshpit]

My MSI 5870 is too large for the case. I had to remove my HD drive bay and my two hard drives are hanging outsite the case. Watch out if you plan to buy a 5870 that you have enough room in your case. It's a good 2-3 inches longer than the 4870.
-Kat

This is definately a fair point. I'm using a monster of a tower case, and if these cards were any longer at all, they'd be inside the drive bays.

[Sasquach]

My case rules, i think i can fit a 5870x2 inside Theres still some wiggle room after i put my 5870 in it.

[caveman-jim]

Rage3D Sapphire HD5850 1GB Review

[SIrPauly]

I don't know where to post this:

But there is a patch for Shift and a read about its performance benefits for AMD products:

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1130/1/

EA said that the new game patch increases ATI graphics card support in general and we confirmed that as well by noting a 26% performance increase by updating the game and installing the latest beta driver by ATI.