Garcian Smith said:
Again, I'm not doubting that the 5850 is a more powerful card, but at $300+ it's also leaning heavily toward the expensive side of the market. I can't argue with those benchmarks, obviously, but you've also cherry-picked two of the most GPU-intensive games on the market (plus a beta running at 8x AA, which taxes any sub-$300 card). For most anything else, the 4890 will run it at max settings, and should be able to for the foreseeable future. That's perfectly fine if the OP wants to pay an extra $100 to push graphics to the max on every game, but I'm working on the assumption that most people here would rather save a substantial amount of cash than occasionally turn down a couple of "Very High" settings to merely, "High." |
At $1200 the computer in question is leaning heavily towards the expensive side of the market.
| Sum of FPS Benchmarks 1680x1050 with anti aliasing, 4AA (High Quality) Score in FrameGo |
584.60 | 459.50 | 407.80 |
HD 5850 vs 4890 which is an aggregate increase of 27%.
Vs a 41% difference in price. The remaining 14% price vs performance is justified from the power, noise and features.
One can expect this gap to narrow with driver updates and later games which are more GPU limited and less CPU limited.
| Sum of FPS Benchmarks 1680x1050 with anti aliasing, 4AA (High Quality) Score in FrameGo |
584.60 | 459.50 | 407.80 |
Tease.
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