Question about 5750 512 MB

[Xzyrus]

Anyone know if these will be released in North America? The only stores I can find selling them tend to be in Europe.

As shown here, there aren't many situations where 1GB is actually benenficial over the 512MB and in the situations where 1GB is better by more than just a marginal amount, the 1GB version's actual frames aren't that great anyways (i.e. the settings are beyond what a 5750 could handle).
http://www.tweakpc.de/hardware/tests/grafikkarten/xfx_ati_radeon_hd_5750_512_mb/s07.php

I'm a casual gamer I guess. Been fine with HD4200 for HTPC purposes but perhaps want to pick up a stronger card to play games like GTA IV, NFS:Shift, Batman:AA. I've considered HD4850 and GTS 250 but this is supposed to fall in at roughly the same pricepoint with more features and lower power consumption

Also thinking about waiting for nvidia's card at this price and performance point since years down the road when I do upgrade, it can be a physX card. However nvidia's too hard to judge at this point from what I gather.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

they probably will go on sale at some point here in the US.. but my guess is that they are currently used binned 5750 chips for the 512mb cards.. we'll probably see it here in the US when the 5500 and 5600 series cards are released..

btw if your going to be playing GTA4 then you actually want the 1GB version more then the 512mb version since the games pretty much limited by how much video ram you have available..

 

[Xzyrus]

I thought GTA4 was more CPU limited? People say it's a bad port anyhow. I just want playable settings not super high anyhow. What I have going through my head is if I were to get the 1GB 5750, I might as well have gone 512mb 4870 but then I like the feature set in the 5000 series.

Looks like I'll just have to wait until another couple months to see then. It's probably better that I wait for nvidia's cards to see what ATI does with its pricing scheme. I was just curious with what was up with why the 512MB 5750s weren't available in NA but were in Europe.

After looking at this:
http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=725&pageid=8
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/graphics-ram-4870,2428-9.html
I can see extra memory does benefit GTA IV however, I still stand by that it'd be better if I grabbed a 4870 512MB instead of a 5750 1GB, I'd get better value although yea it's odd how I use it to justify settling at 5750 512MB lol.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

I thought GTA4 was more CPU limited? People say it's a bad port anyhow. I just want playable settings not super high anyhow. What I have going through my head is if I were to get the 1GB 5750, I might as well have gone 512mb 4870 but then I like the feature set in the 5000 series.

Looks like I'll just have to wait until another couple months to see then. It's probably better that I wait for nvidia's cards to see what ATI does with its pricing scheme. I was just curious with what was up with why the 512MB 5750s weren't available in NA but were in Europe.

After looking at this:
http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=725&pageid=8
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/graphics-ram-4870,2428-9.html
I can see extra memory does benefit GTA IV however, I still stand by that it'd be better if I grabbed a 4870 512MB instead of a 5750 1GB, I'd get better value although yea it's odd how I use it to justify settling at 5750 512MB lol.

the game is cpu limited.. but because the way the gfx settings are done you are limited by the amount of memory on the gfx card on what you can turn on.. aka classic console to pc ported game..


if you want the 4870.. make sure you get the 1GB version.. while yes theres almost no performance difference between the cards running identical settings.. the one thing the 4870 1GB does allow is higher AA/AF settings in the same game while losing almost no performance compared to the 512mb version.. its just not cost effective buying the 4870 512mb card since it..