Here's another version of Crysis benchmarks. 460 still does very well in SLI, but this one looks more correct (from www.techpowerup.com)
you can get a 5850 for £230 on dabs anyway as for the 260 I'd get one over the 5770 and 5830 but seeming the deal in dabs witha 5850 +3 games for £229.99 it'd be hard to choose seeming this is retailing as what £200?
As littlepuppi has just pointed out here, the 5850 is now £199 on Aria's Super Specials... Now it gets interesting...
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/768M...5MHz-Shader-Clock-1350MHz-336-Cores-DVI-mHDMI Two of those would be very nice for SLI.
The GTX 460 is a great card and I hate Nvidia but love quality. I want to see some GTX 460 1024MB Sli vs. HD 5850 crossfire (10.6 drivers) as I'm going to upgrade soon but can't decide on what GPU to get but it boils down to GTX 460 1024MB Sli vs. Hd 5850 crossfire. Help me out Bit-Tech with some great benchmarking and can you please use ARMA II: OPERATION ARROWHEAD, Stalker COP, BFBC2, and ARMA II: OPERATION ARROWHEAD as these are some games me and my friends play. Coming soon: Core i7 950 Gigabyte X58A-UD3R 6GB Gskill DDR3 1333 Corsair Nova Series 64GB SSD 2 WD Caviar Black 640GB HDD 2 GPUs sli or CF? Thermaltake 850 PSU Antec DF-85 Case
The GTX460 scales better in SLI, the HD5850 is better as a single card. The GTX460 wins anyhow since it's cheaper.
Interesting comparison between Scan and Aria. Heres Scan's range of 460s: http://www.scan.co.uk/Shop/Computer-Hardware/All/GPU-NVIDIA/NVIDIA-Geforce-GTX460-PCI-E-(336-Cores) Heres Aria's range of Fermi cards in total: http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/Nvidia+GTX+400+Series/ If Aria really want to compete they need to start offering a bigger range of their items!
Uhmm, Southern Islands coming out in a few months maybe? Best of all, AMD finally cutting thrit profit margins [semi-accurate estimated the're making $170 per RV870, at least] A 5850 for £160, I'm holding my breath.
it has a really good overclock potential, I would say it worth the money you spent. I just hope amd starts to reduce their price tag, so consumer wins, lol
In those few months, we don't know if it'll perform good or not(most likely decent) but if that's the strategy I might as well wait till the next generation, surely the prices of the cards now will drop.
well, not quite a GTX 285 if my figures are correct we'll see when I/james retest(s) tomorrow - those scores were pretty good no?
I dunno just seen evga gtx465 for 250 on newegg.. and ten dollar rebate unlock that to a 470- best deal.. *edit well looks like pny cards are the ones you want evga bins with 8 chips instead of 10 according to the guys on xtreme systems
I think you have to take crossfire results with a pinch of salt. Scaling has to be invoked via game settings. I mean it doesnt scale say 10 + 9 = 19/20 like sli which seems to scale under just about any settings, but rather it's at very high settings where crossfire scales well. So say crossfire 5870s would scale best in Crysis with all enthusiast setings at 1900x1200 and above, where of course the power of that setup would show. SLI seems to act like lego blocks, just keep stacking cards one atop another. Crossfire doesnt look very good until your far beyond a point where a single card craps out. The anandtech chart referenced is just not at difficult enough settings to show all that good a scaling factor.
You buy now you got 5 months before the next cards are out. ATI product releases come after a long trail of specs and pics from rumour sites. All those sites have is a code name and nothing else besides. The next ATI release is a looooong time away (Q4 this year).
