There's also the upcoming 5830. As its numerical designation should indicate, it fits between the 5770 and 5850 in price and performance.
Current rumor (as of today) is that launch is targeted for one week from today. Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of James Boswell > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 7:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics > Cards Equal? > > > 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 :)
