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AMD ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB PCIe

Based on 9 reviews

Excellent:

4
Good:

4
Average:

0
Bad:

1

Pros

Modern graphics card with the latest technologies.

Cons

It's the middleman of the 5800 series.

Reviews

All (34)
Excellent (4)
Good (4)
Bad (1)

By The Tech Report on July 29, 2010

Putting together these value comparisons is harder than it looks. Oh, sure, looking at our overall value graphs and making broad generalizations is a lot of fun, but it can be quite misleading. You've gotta keep the hidden variables in mind. If this...

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By TechRadar on June 14, 2010

Lesson one for the trainee PC performance enthusiast. Whether it's CPUs or GPUs, always go for a cut-down version of a flagship chip if you want to maximise your bang-for-buck ratio.Enter, therefore, AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5850 graphics chipset....

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By TopTenREVIEWS on June 01, 2010

Nice and modern for those that don't want to go to the...

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By Overclock3D on January 20, 2010

So what conclusion can be drawn from todays testing?Firstly I'm sure a lot of you have come into todays review with a preconceived notion of exactly what card you'd like. In previous times the general consensus was to purchase the highest priced...

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By DigitalVersus on November 19, 2009

The card at a glance For our tests, HIS sent us their Radeon HD 5850 H585F1GDG. It's not really an original card, since it uses ATI’s stock design. It's the same size and has the same cooler and clocks as a standard Radeon HD 5850. But...

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By Motherboards.org on November 04, 2009

Two HD 5850s are definitely better than a single card in almost every game. To take advantage of two cards of this magnitude you almost have to turn up FSAA to 8x and AF to 16x as performance with 4x FSAA is nearly CPU limited on a Core i7 920....

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By X-bit Labs on October 31, 2009

Summing up today’s test session, we have to admit that the Radeon HD 5850 is going to be the only real opponent to the Radeon HD 5870 until the arrival of the next generation of graphics cards from Nvidia. In fact, it is such a dangerous opponent that...

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By HardwareZone.com on October 27, 2009

Widely overlooked and quite often unavailable in retail at launch, the less powerful Radeon 5800 series card, the HD 5850 showed us today that it is no pushover. Despite sporting fewer stream processors and markedly lower clock speeds than the HD...

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By BeHardware on October 27, 2009

With the Radeon HD 5800s, AMD has opened the ball for the DirectX 11 generation of graphics cards, or rather Direct3D 11. On the menu, Cypress, a new GPU that offers full support for the new API, is engraved at 40 nanometres and...

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By PC Pro on October 14, 2009

Blistering pace that tops the best of the last generation – and at a palatable price, too...

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