[Hexus.net] AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs 6850 vs 5850 at same clocks

For being pretty old, 5xxx series of cards still is awesome. The 5850 and 5870 are still damn good cards.
 
My toxic 5850 cards were beasts.. especially in xfire. They just can't handle tessellation very well. Wish this review would of came out a week earlier.
 
Why are they comparing the performance of an enthusiast level 5000 series card with budget tier 6/7000 cards?
 
Skripka said:
Why are they comparing the performance of an enthusiast level 5000 series card with budget tier 6/7000 cards?
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Amd's slide compares the old 5800 generation to the 7800 generation and says it's time to upgrade.

We all get that the 7870 performs like a 6950 and amd says the 7870 is mid-tiers?
Let's not get into a price debate again ;) , oc'd it can match a 7950 in some case and beat a gtx580 for alot less$.
 
my 5870 oc's well. I still want a 7950 though. IDK why... I love the smell of new hardware.
 
I'm not surprised at all that the 5850 comes close in performance to the 7850, at an embarrassingly-close introductory MSRP.

Kyle, along with every other site out there has panned the 7850 for having a piss-poor price/performance ratio, being very close to the GTX 560 Ti while costing $30+ more. And while the 2GB ram is enticing, it doesn't make sense not to officially offer a 1GB version on a card with this level of performance. I would have thought AMD would have learned from their delayed release of the 6950 1GB.

Still interesting to see the improvements in the 6850 and how modern games have utilized them. In terms of pure shader power the 5850 defeated the 6850 soundly when it was first released, but now for many games the gap has closed or turned completely in favor of the 6850 :D
 
Too bad they didn't take transistor count into account. The 7850 has 33% more transistors than the 5850.
 
TheCommander said:
For being pretty old, 5xxx series of cards still is awesome. The 5850 and 5870 are still damn good cards.
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THUMPer1 said:
my 5870 oc's well. I still want a 7950 though. IDK why... I love the smell of new hardware.
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Well my 5870 at 1ghz has been a hell of a good deal over the years. (got it 4 months or so after launch)

The 7970 6GB along with a couple more screens (again) are what is attracting my attention, else the 5870 on a single screen just keeps on cruising along...
 
huh, I was thinking of getting a 7850 to replace my 5850. But, short of overclocking the 7850 like a boss, I guess theres no point in upgrading at this point :)
 
Yakk said:
Well my 5870 at 1ghz has been a hell of a good deal over the years. (got it 4 months or so after launch)

The 7970 6GB along with a couple more screens (again) are what is attracting my attention, else the 5870 on a single screen just keeps on cruising along...
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Yep. BF3 even runs fine for me on max settings (no AA) with the 5870.
 
I cant help but chuckle at articles like this. I love my 5850, it has been a kickass card for a long time. Longer than it has any business doing so. My CPU at its current clocks is still plenty fast as well. NEVER had a rig for this long and still been so satisfied with it.
 
its kind of misleading - it should be 5850->6950->7950
or 5750->6850->7850

as they changed the naming standard. Of course the 58xx do good compared to mid ranged, they were top tier at the time duh
 
Chihlidog said:
I cant help but chuckle at articles like this. I love my 5850, it has been a kickass card for a long time. Longer than it has any business doing so. My CPU at its current clocks is still plenty fast as well. NEVER had a rig for this long and still been so satisfied with it.
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I'm in a the same boat. I've been thinking about getting a new card, but then I saw this thread (fate? lol) and I think I'll wait a little longer.

New cards are sweet, but other than the awesome factor, I really can't justify the price of an upgrade versus what is already working well for me.
 
c@Nc3r1369 said:
its kind of misleading - it should be 5850->6950->7950
or 5750->6850->7850

as they changed the naming standard. Of course the 58xx do good compared to mid ranged, they were top tier at the time duh
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One thing that you're missing, the 5850 was around the same price of the 7850. You're not getting a whole lot more oomph for your money with the 7850.
 
Yup a lot of people thing I'm noob for saying my 5850 @ 1GHz is still pretty good....but it's they who are the noobs.

Especially since I bought it for 180 almost 1.5 years ago.
 
Oh well, I got my 6850 for $100 last year, so I cant complain really. Do sort of wished I had at least purchased a 5870 (which I saw selling for $160 refurbished on Geeks.com at same time) after seeing some subsequent benchmarks afterwards.
 
gordon151 said:
Oh well, I got my 6850 for $100 last year, so I cant complain really. Do sort of wished I had at least purchased a 5870 (which I saw selling for $160 refurbished on Geeks.com at same time) after seeing some subsequent benchmarks afterwards.
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Goes to show how bad AMD'S marketing is/was fir people not to realize how good their cards are/were.
 
c@Nc3r1369 said:
its kind of misleading - it should be 5850->6950->7950
or 5750->6850->7850

as they changed the naming standard. Of course the 58xx do good compared to mid ranged, they were top tier at the time duh
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Yeah I'm confused why they are using a 5850 when it should of been a 5750
 
Skripka said:
Why are they comparing the performance of an enthusiast level 5000 series card with budget tier 6/7000 cards?
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because it shows the progression of the architectures and what has changed/not changed in the last 3 years. that and the fact that some people are still to daft to understand AMD's naming scheme(talking about the review, not anyone in this thread)..


but to back them up, the 5850's honestly the closest option. since the 6850 was much closer to the 5830 which is what the card was meant to replace, not the 5750. but none the less i agree with everyone else that at the least it should of been compared against the 5770.
 
The 58XX cards were soo much ahead of their time with the massive amount of stream processors.

That is why for "other" tasks like F@H or Bitcoins the 5-series card just blows everything else away in a $/performance ratio. I can OC a 5830 a little for example and have it match a 6950 in Mhash for example.

I have to admit, I love my 5970 Quadfire box right now, for the price I picked up the both cards was only slighly over a single 6990!

What I don't get is why AMD decided to make the 69XX/79XX with a single GPU. A 7990 will end up being close to two 7950s in bechmarks perhaps? In the 5XXX series days the 59XX was dual GPU and the top end 58XX was the fastest single GPU.
 
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