AMD's Radeon HD 5870: Bringing About the Next Generation Of GPUs
by Ryan Smith on September 23, 2009 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Left 4 Dead
Valve’s venerable Source engine continues to roll on with Left 4 Dead, their co-op zombie shooter. As the Source engine is CPU limited, this is once again going to be a collection of ridiculously high frame rates.
Once again the 5870 is the king of single-GPU cards, putting away the GTX 285 by 36%, and even managing to beat the 4870 X2. The GTX 295 continues to get the best of the 5870 however, leading by a slimmer 8% margin. The difference is once again academic however, as all of these cards are pushing more than 100fps. Interestingly, the 5870 CF doesn’t completely dominate the field as it usually does – it can only beat the GTX 285 SLI by 9%.
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Scali - Thursday, October 1, 2009 - link
Here's a screenshot of my 8800GTS320 getting almost 49 fps when I overclock it:http://bohemiq.scali.eu.org/OceanCS8800GTS.png">http://bohemiq.scali.eu.org/OceanCS8800GTS.png
So you see why I think 47 fps for a GTX285 is weird. It should easily beat the 72 fps of the HD5870. Even an 8800Ultra might get close to that number.
mapesdhs - Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - link
I sincerely nope not as we need the competition. See:
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Ian.
Johnwo - Monday, September 28, 2009 - link
so wait, can this card play Crysis?vsl2020 - Sunday, September 27, 2009 - link
AMD only introducing new things which merely would make yur frap fps go 1000 and thats it.....no new good or interesting features such as what nvidia did with physx/3d Stereoscopic or similar that would convince me thats the way to the future...why should I need to buy a new dx11gpu only can do 1000fps...I would still luv my 260+ and 60fps in batman arkhum or other games which supported phsyx or similar...AMD just bring us back to the stone age race ..who has the higher fps race......
Jamahl - Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - link
did you even read the review? what about eyefinity, you know a good way to use up those 1000fps by adding more screens?you can be stuck with your 260, you aren't really gaming unless you are gaming on eyefinity.
Zool - Monday, September 28, 2009 - link
Actualy the delaying of nvidia dx11 card will make introducing new things harder. DX11 and OpenCL means enough that u can forget nvidias physx. At least with open platform dewelopers could finaly merge gpu and cpu code and make some more usefull things than improwed water splashing,unrealistic glass shatering and curtains which just run on top of the code and act as some kind of postprocessing + efects just to maintain compatibility.(miles away from the nvidia demos)And also dx11 compute shader can make these things.
RNViper - Sunday, September 27, 2009 - link
Hey GuysNeed Eyefinity a Nativ DisplayPort TFT?
pawaniitr - Sunday, September 27, 2009 - link
maybe a 2 GiB memory will help this card at highest resolutionswaiting for that version
Troll Trolling - Saturday, September 26, 2009 - link
I think you guys from anandtech could do an article explaining why the new Radeons don't don't double performance, even with doubled specs.It happened too with the HD 4870, it had more than doubled everything (except bandwidht, that was 80% higher) and was not close from double performance.
SiliconDoc - Saturday, September 26, 2009 - link
PS - The bandwidth is not doubled.124GB/sec to 153GB/sec, nowhere near an 80% increasse, let alone, virtually double.