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5:00 PM on 09.24.2009, Jonathan Ross

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AMD releases the Radeon HD 5800 series photo

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If you follow PC hardware news, you may have been hearing about ATI's 5800 series for some time. Well, they're finally here, as yesterday AMD announced that the graphics cards are finally available for purchase. AMD is putting out two cards, the 5850 and the 5870, priced at $250 and $399 respectively. If you haven't heard of these cards before, they're the first graphics cards designed from the ground up to support DirectX 11, so if you plan on gaming on a Windows 7 machine you'll want to look into these.

The benchmarks I've seen so far show the 5870 performing pretty impressively -- it tends to outperform NVIDIA's GTX 285 in most tests, and can hold it's own against the 295. While overall the 295 tends to get slightly better numbers, it's also currently $100 more expensive, and uses up a whole lot more power. That said, don't be surprised if NVIDIA drops the prices on the 200 series soon.

Any of you guys running Windows 7 planning on picking one of these up? Do you care at all about the lack of PhysX?

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Gyrael

I'm surprised the still haven't lowered the 200 series' price.

PreacherMan89

Yeah, a price-drop would be nice. I'm stuck with a crappy GeForce 7200, lol. (Works fine on Windows 7, cant handle any decent games though.)

Jon B

I care about the lack of PhysX, for one. nVidia are really going to struggle to match this though.

Knives

I should get one considering my Nvidia 7800gtx is dying

Magnalon

Finally, some PC love! I'm content with my card for now, but I think I might pick this one up at some point.

TewDee

This is great news considering Nvidia doesn't care about DX11 and doesn't plan on supporting it soon...

DV2FOX

Physx FTW...ATI doesnt has it,even if they have a lower price that doesnt justifies its total power..or whatever

Waiting for Nvidia's Price cuuuuut....keep us informed,Jonas

SecCom

I grabbed the 4850 with 1GB of RAM and it still dominates any game I throw at it...and I bought that for under 200, which I'm sure its even cheaper now. Highly recommend that card if you are not one of those people who like to brag about their 3DMark scores.

N0R3M0RS3

I plan on trying to pick up one of the 300 series when nVidia releases them in December. I've always had issues with the ATI cards I've used. My SLI'd 8800GTs are starting to show their age...

brainderailment

I'm hoping BFG will release a new card so I can get my free card swap in before the 100 day limit.

TheDirtyHobo

This, or the 5890 when it applies, will be my upgrade in a year or two. I've got a 4870 right now, so I can still sit pretty for quite a while.

septan179

How many developers have adopted DirectX 10 besides Crytek?

runtheplacered

@ septan179,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_DirectX_10_support

w4ffles

Many developers didn't bother with DX10 because there wasn't a big enough difference over DX9 to justify the new coding path. However, DX11 looks like it's going to bring a lot more in terms of speed and eye candy. Compute shaders on DX11 cards is a big selling point.

I go with whatever gives me the most bang for my buck, like the HIS HD4850 IceQ4 512MB I got for $80 after MIR.

Jon B

Just as a little additive to w4ffles above, watch this video.

Arianol

That's one badass looking GPU, I must say.

mrberns

I'm more excited to grab a 4890 for a reduced price soon. I doubt I'll be investing in any directx11 hardware till I do a total rebuild, which won't be for a while.

TheNomadicTroll

Well hopefully dev. will get on DX11 and start pushing pc hardware again. Of course this is a hopeless dream since most dev. are just making games on a DX9 console (xbox 360).

Volomon

Wait the lack of PhysX from hardware or software? On the video card, windows directx, windows 7, or video games? Confusored...also I was thinking about DX11 cards but I'm not sure if getting the first ones out of anything is a smart idea especially with PC gaming. Have to see what Nvidia puts out then have to see ATI's response.

@septan179 Most if not all current games have DX10. The few that don't are because of Xbox360 crossplatform. Did you ever hear my rant about out of date systems lowering the quality across all platforms? Which by the way wonder if Dragon Age will suffer. I mean once you fall out of graces with the Shader tech your auto screwed in PC gaming especially.

Halaster

For me the lack of CUDA has a bigger impact than the lack of PhysX, though that would in the end effect my purchasing decision as well.

Those two features combined are a pretty big selling point for a nVidia card over an ATI card beyond just performance to performance comparison. If I can get an equivalent card with just a difference of say 5-10% in performance but also obtain both of those features it is really not a question. If the performance difference is more along the lines of 15-25% though I would easily give up PhysX, though would wrestle with CUDA.

gamadaya

That is a sexy card. Of course I would say wait for nVidia to show their 300 series, but that is still a sexy card. And it's good for everyone, regardless if you like nVidia or ATI, because you know nVidia isn't going to be launching any $600 cards anymore. I also heard a lot of people saying that this is worth upgrading to from the 8800 cards, and I agree. And it has insanely low power consumption when idling. Yeah, ATI isn't fucking around here.

@Volomon: But do games really suffer that much for lack of DX10? By most accounts, there is little noticeable difference, other than slightly better graphics and a lower framerate. And Far Cry 2 is the only game I can think of that really significantly benefited from DX10 in terms of fps and image quality (mostly) and that was on 360 and PS3.

jorge

I would never spend anywhere near $400 on a video card.

Arch649

I payed $600 for my 8800GTX and it was worth every penny. I will be looking to upgrade once I start getting a cash flow again.

Diverse

Running an HD 4870 now and I couldn't be happier with it. Don't really see a point to upgrade, but it's a possibility.

Methos

My 4850 also smokes any PC game I throw at it as well. I'm more curious about the 5770 and the 300 series of Geforce.

ajaxender

I dont care too much for the card itself, but rather in the progress of the GFX card competition, and what Nvidia will release in response. Nvidia have much, much better driver support, and stuff like PhysX too, so Amd/Ati will have to have a card series thats ahead by quite a large margin to make me want to switch.

I'll worry about DirectX 11 when games use it properly. If DX10 is anything to go by, itll be another year or two.

Crunshii

meh for some reason I don't like ATI cards. Had bad experience with drivers and such on my last laptop. Nvidia has always been there for me supplying both power and performance with 0 mistakes.

I'll wait for Nvidias model to be released.

Cyber Altair

Is this the one with the 7000 something resolution that can handle like 3 monitors at once and is like the Jesus of graphics cards cause I read about them on a GS article. Also PhsyX is owned by Nvidia so you need a standalone PshyX card if you own an AMD card.

CWal37

I have no problems with my 4850. In fact, I love it. When I do upgrade I'll definitely be looking to ATi again.

KorJax

ybfelix

Consoles have been around for a looooong time. Maybe PC developers should try squeeze more power out of existing specs, you know, like some console developers do?

triclops41

I'm getting the asus 5850. The asus cards are overclocking like champs, making the 5850 almost the same as it's 120 more expensive brother, the 5870. Dx11 isn't the biggest reason these cards are great. Yes they can both do 3 monitors. And physx is cool, but almost no games use it so it's pretty worthless.

Gyrael

I bought a GTX260 on like December of last year for around 210$. They're at like 170-180 now.

matrixdude171

It's beautiful!

FUBAB107

I should pick this one up when i get a chance too

abydos

Good news. I'll be upgrading my rig next year so they'll be even cheaper.

Raphael Nguyen

Whether or not AMD's 5800 series is better/worse than NVIDIA's 200 series, I gotta say - if that image (in the post) is representative of them, the 5800s a stupid sexy.

-- Griffinhart

Mohammad Nasir Mirza

What about XFX GeForce GTX 295?

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