Video Card for My Specs - 200$ Budget

The maximum resolution on my current monitor is 1680x1050, though I can't run skyrim at that due to my current card.
 
gurusan said:
I'd get a used 5850 over a 6870. Most 5850s will do close to 1GHz and the 6870 needs to be around 1.2GHz to match it which obviously is impossible.
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Not true. The 6870 is on par with the 5870 in most games. Sometimes the 5870 comes out on top.
 
Which of these cards will still be running neck to neck with one another in 2 years? Is a 5870 as future proof as a 6870? Ditto for the 560's?
 
5870 is not very future proof IMO. It's very powerful, but it also consumes more power than a newer card, and it won't scale as well in Crossfire. In 2 years, video cards will be even more efficient than they are now, and a 5870 isn't very efficient even by today's standards.

6870 and 560 are probably more "future-proof", at least as far as $150 video cards go.
 
So, according to the above graphic, 6950 2Gb>5870>560ti>6870. It goes from 106% down to 93% relative performance. (Again, just roughly based on the above chart.) For my purposes, that makes them essentially equal. The OP may disagree.

The discriminators would be cost, size and power consumption. That's in my world. Someone else may rank them differently.

(BTW, I'm running a 6870 and a 6850 in two machines (the 6850 is a stopgap because my 8800gtx died and I'm waiting for kepler). The 6850 will be replaced by Kepler (or a 7xxx) and then it will go into a third machine currenly running integrated graphics. Shudder... I'm AMD/Nvidia agnostic. Pick your own personal flavor.)
 
M249SAW said:
Not true. The 6870 is on par with the 5870 in most games. Sometimes the 5870 comes out on top.
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did you even read what I said about overclocking. The 6870 barely has any headroom while the 5850/70 have loads.
 
7850 comes out in a month or so. Its MSRP is going to be $200 and is said to have 6950/70 performance. Might be a good idea to just wait off a little bit.
 
The 7850 actually has a 249 msrp and only has 1280SP....I don't see it even beating even a 6950, however I'm sure it will overclock extremely well.
 
gurusan said:
The 7850 actually has a 249 msrp and only has 1280SP....I don't see it even beating even a 6950, however I'm sure it will overclock extremely well.
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HD7850 (Pitcairn Pro):

The HD7850 price and specs would put it at a sweet spot for budget gamers. Based on the 28nm Pitcairn Pro Core and offering performance similar to the HD6950/GTX560Ti. The card would feature 1408ALUs clocked at 850Mhz, 88 Texture Units, 32ROPs, 22SIMDs and a rated TDP design of 90W. A 2GB 256-bit wide memory interface would run at 5.2Gbps 166GB/s.

The HD7850 would be priced at $199 US when launched.
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Everything I have read says $200 and 6950 performance. As for how it overclocks or where it fits in, im going to wait off until reviews start coming out before I start listening to where people "think" they might end up or how they will overclock.
 
Wherever you got that info..well it's wrong.

1280 SP with VLIW4 architecture is not going to outperform a 6950 unless it's clocked far, far higher.
 
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