New Graphic Card

[lappy74]

With the latest launch of the 6900 series graphic cards I was thinking of upgrading.

I have a 5870 at the momment. But i've been considering either getting crossfire 6970, or crossfire 6870 and of course just buying another 5870 when the powercolor colour 5870 drops in price. Personally im disappointed with the 6970 but the performance with xfire was quite good. But then again I guess i'd be better with a 580 at less of the price. Would like some advice on what to choose.

Also will I have any trouble with an nVidia card with an AMD CPU or will everything just be fine ?

Thank you

 

[AMDFTW]

the 5870 is still a monster fella it would xfire that

unless u have the money to put towards a 580 after u sell your 5870

EDIT-look at the 570's fella

 

[lappy74]

I'll look into that

 

[Bocephus]

Personally, if it were me spending that much money on two GPU's I think I'd just buy one 5990 or invidias 580 and be done with it. Until ATI gets their s**t together, corrects the number naming to reflect their previous product numbering that we are familiar with. It's very misleading, I don't know if ATI did this intentionally to confuse everyone or if they did it like Microsoft did with windows Vista to keep up with with mac leapord. Windows 7 is what windows vista should have been in the first place, but I'm getting off topic.

IMHO...the new 6800's - 6900's are just 6830 and 6840 maybe 6700's with new technology or their trying to build them for multi GPU users for scalability...I dont know.

Don't get me wrong..I am a huge ATI fan but this latest development has got me considering going back to Invidia and getting a 580. I am extremely let down with the new ATI GPU's

 

[Brooksie]

Yeah ATI have really screwed up with the number naming. The only thing the 6 series improves on is tessellation, but since no games use it at the moment it's rather pointless to upgrade. But if you want to, 580

 

[Trull]

Well, I don't know why you'd want to upgrade your 5870, that card is superb for almost every game out there... except, you know, Crysis and Metro. But if you really must and have the money, then you can't go wrong with the 580... you should probably try to sell your 5870 though.

 

[lappy74]

I've decided to wait, as I want a larger performance leap for my money rather than upgrading slightly.

 

[alienware]

Adding a second 5870 will take your performance to another dimension. I seriously mean that too.It's also the cheapest option and IMO CF 5870 will be miles beyond what a single 580 can do.

 

[lappy74]

Adding a second 5870 will take your performance to another dimension. I seriously mean that too.It's also the cheapest option and IMO CF 5870 will be miles beyond what a single 580 can do.

Hmmm maybe your right.

But I want to wait for the Powercolor 5870 to come down in price.

It is a brilliant card and is very cool and quiet.

31 degrees on it right now.

If anyone knows where I could one cheap then let me know.

Ebuyer are selling it for 280 and I aint paying that again =/

 

[Trull]

Adding a second 5870 will take your performance to another dimension. I seriously mean that too.It's also the cheapest option and IMO CF 5870 will be miles beyond what a single 580 can do.

I'm not so sure CF 5870s beat a 580...

 

[alienware]

I'm not so sure CF 5870s beat a 580...

I am.

Think about it logically. A single 5870 was about 10% slower than a 480. Crossfire scaling can be up to 95% or so. There is no way IMO that a single 580 could offer that kind of performance. I'll have a look at the reviews/vantage scores but yeah, I'm pretty certain that CF 5870 would be seriously seriously fast.

Yup. I am now 100% certain that CF 5870 will destroy a single 580.

Here is the Vantage score for a single 5870.

About 22500 And a 580

About 29000 stock. Now add 95% to that 5870 and see what you come up with. At least 40000 marks.

It's not a small margin mate, you would literally need to strap your rig down to stop it taking off.

Crap wrong results.. I shall keep digging

 

[alienware]

OK apologies for the double post. It was getting a bit messy. After researching this for an hour it's really confusing as I keep seeing scores that are different. I guess tests will use different results. I suppose Tom can answer this once and for all as he knows exactly what each set of scores mean. For example the Ares review the scores were used differently..

 

[Bocephus]

Well, I think you'll be waiting for quite some time to see any big increase out of the 68-6900 series not to mention that there aren't a lot of games out there that are taking advantage of the ATI tessellation.

Keep in mind that ATI have really screwed up (confused) their number branding with the release of the new 68-6900 GPU's...the 5970 is still flagship IMO