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The wait is over!!!!

Awesome! That gpu can support up to 6 monitors! The downside is that they're all mini displayports.
 
The short answers is NO..Someone had a link up to the review and it didnt make a big difference against the GTX480.
 
dont really care about the E6 edition, just wanna see 2 gigs with the standard outputs (at a lot less than 499).
 
FranklyShankly said:
extra vram is only really gonna help in eyefinity.
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Funny,..the link and that whole thread is GONE!!..:eek:

I think it was techreport though..They even had 5870CF vs GTX480 results and the Fermi SLI won most of those especially at higher rez with eye candy on.
 
Ahhh..I found it...

http://techreport.com/articles.x/18682/3

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Once we get to the highest resolution, the GTX 480 once again is no faster than the Radeon HD 5870 in this game, although the GTX 480 SLI config scales better than two 5870s in a CrossFire pairing.
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I can't see very many gamers at all going with six monitors. Not only does that represent a huge extra cost in monitors, the scaffold costs a lot of money, and the displayport connectors cost money too. Meanwhile the 2GB version doesn't really provide that much of an increase in performance over the 1GB version until you really start cranking up the AA.
 
If someone is staying single monitor in the 24-30 inch range neither the 2gb 5870 or even more wild 4GB 5970 or cards like that are worth considering, correct? Stick with either a 1gb 5870 or at most a 2gb 5970 as far as ATI goes?
 
Q-BZ said:
If someone is staying single monitor in the 24-30 inch range neither the 2gb 5870 or even more wild 4GB 5970 or cards like that are worth considering, correct? Stick with either a 1gb 5870 or at most a 2gb 5970 as far as ATI goes?
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for the most part, yes.

AFAIK, the only game that would really benefit from all (or some of) that vram would be gta4.
 
Wow. First, I'm not sure if the title of this thread merits three exclamation points. Opening this thread was like opening a moist towelette packet to find the towelette is not moist at all.

Second, it's disappointing to see in the reviews the extra 1GB doesn't help much in Eyefinity resolutions.
 
Q-BZ said:
If someone is staying single monitor in the 24-30 inch range neither the 2gb 5870 or even more wild 4GB 5970 or cards like that are worth considering, correct? Stick with either a 1gb 5870 or at most a 2gb 5970 as far as ATI goes?
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How many times are you going to ask this question?
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dook43 said:
How many times are you going to ask this question?
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Sorry if I missed the answer somewhere else. There's a lot of action to follow in several threads and I'm suffering from a little information overload in the past day or so.

I'm covered now. Promise. :)
 
I think Tom's put it best... even in eyefinity (5760x1080 for their test setup), the extra RAM isn't worth it until you crossfire since it doesn't come into play until you really crank up AA which is unplayable on a single card anyway.

In fact... in pretty much all of Tom's eyefinity benches, the 2GB variant lost by a very slight (but consistent...) margin to the 1 GB card everytime...

However, it's nice to see that sites are actually benching eyefinity and more importantly crossfire as well. I'm really tempted to add another 5870 now...
 
Intel_Hydralisk said:
I think Tom's put it best... even in eyefinity (5760x1080 for their test setup), the extra RAM isn't worth it until you crossfire since it doesn't come into play until you really crank up AA which is unplayable on a single card anyway.

In fact... in pretty much all of Tom's eyefinity benches, the 2GB variant lost by a very slight (but consistent...) margin to the 1 GB card everytime...

However, it's nice to see that sites are actually benching eyefinity and more importantly crossfire as well. I'm really tempted to add another 5870 now...
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Yeah i was pretty surprised by that. If other review sites show the same, I guess I won't worry about upgrading to the 2gig cards.
 
harmattan said:
Wow. First, I'm not sure if the title of this thread merits three exclamation points. Opening this thread was like opening a moist towelette packet to find the towelette is not moist at all.

Second, it's disappointing to see in the reviews the extra 1GB doesn't help much in Eyefinity resolutions.
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It actually helps a lot because you can actually use AA and crank up the details.
The initial charts they are showing you are games with 0 AA on Eyefinity.
And I don't think anybody could stand the jaggies that would cause!

1GB%20vs%202GB.png


Now check out the difference in framerates of the 1 and 2 GB cards when 8x AA is activated in Eyefinity.

1GB%20vs%202GB%208xAA.png


Bad Company 2 was a slideshow on the 1GB cards and Far Cry 2 is not nearly as smooth as on the 2GB cards.

Source:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-5870-eyefinity6,2595-11.html
 
vjcsmoke said:
It actually helps a lot because you can actually use AA and crank up the details.
The initial charts they are showing you are games with 0 AA on Eyefinity.
And I don't think anybody could stand the jaggies that would cause!

1GB%20vs%202GB.png


Now check out the difference in framerates of the 1 and 2 GB cards when 8x AA is activated in Eyefinity.

1GB%20vs%202GB%208xAA.png


Bad Company 2 was a slideshow on the 1GB cards and Far Cry 2 is not nearly as smooth as on the 2GB cards.

Source:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-5870-eyefinity6,2595-11.html
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I run 4xAA just fine. Not sure it warrants the hassle and expense of upgrading to 2 gb cards just to go up 1 AA level.
 
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