AMD / ATI Radeon HD5800 -review thread

I disagree. As time goes by and more and more release/performance rumors come out about Fermi, there is the chance consumers might decide to wait a bit longer to see what the competition looks like.

 

The performance numbers would certainly have to increase over what I've heard so far to make anyone want to wait another five months to buy a Fermi based card. It's not like Fermi will be the fastest board on the market when it comes out.

 

Fermi should be the fastest single GPU when released, no?

 

yes, but not the fastest board and certainly not the most price competitive.

 

No, but there is no interest being earnt either.

 

HardOCP noticed a HUGE performance gain in NFS Shift going from 9.10 to 9.12 beta

http://hardocp.com/article/2009/11/10/need_for_speed_shift_gameplay_performance_iq/7

 

Shame we have to wait until at least the 18th before they put them up on their site since they are the 'Hemlock' driver's. Unless they leak before then :/

 

18th? 23rd!

 

Are we really going to see a big bump in all games?? Man, that will make my 5850 really scream in Crysis !!!!

 

It's a bugfix for NFS for crying out loud. Not a performance driver.

 

This seems to suggest otherwise.

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost.php?p=1336078469&postcount=24

 

As soon as they offer more performance and are free of bugs (graphical corruption all-around) wake me up

 

Don't turn into Sleeping Beauty™.
Might have to send digi on a quest to find you and wake you up with some glitter and glam.

 

Pripyat DX10 vs DX11

http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/..._call_pripyat/2/#abschnitt_cop_und_directx_11

 

I noticed when looking at the link that the HD4870 has a better "durchschnitt"(I think the english word is average) than the GTX 260...Could that have to do with DX10.1 vs DX10?

 

Well it goes from 12% slower without AA to 8% faster with AA so yeah that does point to DX10.1 helping out.

 

HD5970 Reviewed

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=3&id=3072

 

Does anyone have any idea why Windows 7 doesn't seem to think that my 5870 supports DXVA-HD?

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost.php?p=1336083752&postcount=17

I'm almost sure on XP the part under Video Accel: showed VC1, but not on 7.

 

Quite silly that they are running the benchmarks at 1280 x 1024 and 1600 x 1200.

A card that expensive should be benchmarked at 1920 x 1200 and up.

Interesting that the power consumption is topping out at 304 Watt though (in 3DMark Vantage).

 

I believe DXVA-HD provides some post processing functions - we already provide this capability through our own interface.