On 19 Feb 2010, at 01:01, Winterlight wrote: > At 04:42 PM 2/18/2010, you wrote: >> If I could justify spending $300 my personal choice would be an HD5850. I'll >> never do Crossfire or SLI because to me it's just overkill unless you have a >> 30" monitor and want the fastest FPS you can get. > > well I do have a 30 inch monitor, but crossfire in a multi monitor setup has > proved to be very annoying. > I was thinking of a HD 5770. Wouldn't this, on it's own, be faster then my > two 4870s in Crossfire?... (correction from my calling them 4970s originally.)
the 5770 is slightly faster computationally than a single 4870 (800 shaders at.. 850Mhz I believe? rather than 750 or so for the 4870) but it's WAAAAY down on memory bandwidth, 76GB/s vs 115GB/s or therebouts. a 5870 however, will be about as fast as a pair of 4870's :)
