ASUS ATI Radeon EAH5850 G 2 DIS
Published by Marc Voser on 25.01.10Page:
Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| Looking at ATi's 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. | - Power
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| Delivery | + | - | |
| 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. | - Connectors - Dirt2 Game |
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| Performance | + | - | |
| 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. | - Performance |
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| Overclocking | + | - | |
| 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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| Recommendation | + | - | |
| The 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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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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