Conclusion
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recent high-end line-up the 5850 is the entry card. The GPU clock is
at a reasonable 725 MHz which makes it 125 MHz lower than the
HD5870. Therefore also lower is the cards power consumption. Under
load it will draw 170 Watt and in idle the 5850 only need 27 watts.
Also with a length of 28 cm there shouldn't be any problems when
putting the card into a computer case. |
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- Power
consumption
- Lenght |
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| Delivery |
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| Dual-Link
DVI, HDMI and a display port, what do you want more from a recent
graphics card regarding connectors. Also the delivery is very good.
What you get is a short manual, a driver CD, two power adaptors, a
CrossFire-Bride, a DVI to VGA adaptor and a voucher for the race
game Dirt2. |
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- Connectors
- Dirt2 Game
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| Performance |
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| Regarding
the numbers and figures the HD5850 leaves a very good impression.
Compared to the HD5870 it is only about three percent slower on
average in our benchmark parcours. Especially astonishing is the
card when anti aliasing and anisotropic filtering is activated.
There you can clearly see the RV870's strenghts because it doesn't
break in as much as its predecessor - the RV790 - did. |
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- Performance
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| Overclocking |
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| With the standard cooler and the fancontroller at
40 percent we were able to reach a stable GPU-clock of 820 MHz and a
memory-clock of 2400 MHz. By integrating a Volterra-Chip ASUS makes
it possible that you can also adjust the cards voltages. |
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- Temperature
- GPU-Overclocking
-Memory
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| Recommendation |
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smallest variant of the RV870 chip convinced us completely. The
average performance difference to the 5870 is only three percent and
therefore not really significant. Also the delivery is exemplary and
the package top-quality. We would recommend the card especially to
gaming-enthusiasts where the most important point is
price/performance. |
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- PC-Enthusiasts
- Overclockers
- Price / Performance
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The ASUS EAH5870 G 2DIS can be bought at
Digitec to a price of CHF 369.- (est. EUR 248.-).
Author: Marc Voser, m.voser@ocaholic.ch Copy edited by: Marc Büchel, m.buechel@ocaholic.ch
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