Help with new system

[Sam DeathWalker]

The 5970 is a dual gpu so 5870 is the best single in the mainstream area.


http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...70,2474-2.html



Radeon HD 5970
Radeon HD 5870
Radeon HD 5850
Total Transistors
4.3 billion
2.15 billion
2.15 billion
Shader Processors
2 x 1,600
1,600
1,440
Engine Clock Rate
725 MHz
850 MHz
725 MHz
Memory Clock Rate
1,000 MHz
1,200 MHz
1,000 MHz
Memory Bandwidth
2 x 128 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
128 GB/s
Texture Units
2 x 80
80
72
Texture Fillrate
116 GTexel/s
68 GTexel/s
52.2 GTexel/s
ROPs
2 x 32
32
32
Pixel Fillrate
46.4 GPixel/s
27.2 GPixel/s
23.2 GPixel/s
Compute Performance
4.64 TFLOPs
2.72 TFLOPs
2.09 TFLOPs
Maximum Board Power
294W
188W
170W
Idle Board Power
42W
27W
27W

Even though hardware seems similar the Firepro can outdo the 5870 by as much as 650 percent on some tests:

http://fireuser.com/blog/firepro_v87...70_benchmarks/


But no doubt for the price its best for us to stick to gaming boards.


Here are some workstation cards doing gaming:

http://hothardware.com/Articles/Nvid...-Card/?page=10


Also keep in mind these are the cards used by the people who create the game worlds we play in .....



But ya the best single gpu is the 285 or 4890 (5870 is better then 4890 but not shown) it would seem:

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/g...1200,1538.html