Okay so I know that this is a bit late but at the time these cards were released I had no intention what so ever to be doing anything remotely related to writing my on blog...okay so that’s not entirely true. I do have friends with blogs and they have told me before to start one, but I never really know what I’d do with it one I had it. Then the other day my sis suggested I do a tech/ car blog type thing since am so into that kind of stuff....so...here it is... my first post on a blog that I never thought I’d make.
Wow, I feel like I could go on like this for a while...this might be long...why can’t I do this with essays?!?!
Okay...okay on to the reason for the post.
The HD 5850 and 5870, well what can I say. ATI released these to monsters on the 22nd of last month (September 2009) and they are totally insane! The 5850 is set to go against the GTX 285, which is currently Nvidia’s most powerful single GPU card. The 5870 is set to go head to head with Nvidia’s dual GPU solution, the GTX295.
Now before I say anything about how these cards stack up, I am not a biased dude. And even if I was I would probably have leaned more towards Nvidia than ATI, but after the above mentioned date I feel I have been enlightened.
Now am a bit lazy now so I’ll probably put the specs and comparisons up later. But the performance of these two ATI cards totally trashes the competition. I mean really grabs the back of Nvidia’s head and plants its face first into a large well set slab of concrete.
Am sure a lot of the gamers out there already know how well Nvidia is backed by so many games out there. Almost all the games I see come with an Nvidia logo on them somewhere. And games like Crysis are made to runs on Nvidia cards. But even with this handicap the GTX 285 and 295 simply can’t keep up with ATI’s new cards. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the ATI cards are cheaper!!
What really did it for me is that the 5870 which is a single GPU card performs BETTER than the DUAL GPU GTX295!!!!!! And when in crossfire and SLi respectively (that’s 2 GPU’s with 2 5870’s vs. 4 with 2 GTX 295’s) the 5870 still smashes it, and if my memory serves me correctly by a larger margin.
Imagine 3-way or 4-way crossfire would be totally completely and absolutely insane!! Oh yeah and the 5870 and 5850 are the first cards ever to use Direct X 11 which is gonna come with windows 7. ATI cards were also the only ones that had direct x 10.1 which made me cry when I saw the option greyed out as I was setting up Hawx on my PC (my cards obviously by Nvidia). I can’t wait to see how the 300 series shapes up, it should be interesting, but things aren’t looking good to be honest.
I’d also like to see how the mobile versions of ATI’s new cards turn out.
Nvidia in my opinion even with the rebranding of old cards and putting them in the market as “new” ones was still the better option in terms of ultimate performance. But the tables have turned, majorly. And I think it will be totally awesome if big companies like Alienware started using ATI cards in their top end machines like the ALX. I think would totally kill Nvidia.
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