Time to replace my 8800GTX

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.. because tonight it died. :(

I can probably muster a budget of R3,500 at the most. It's a toss up between the Geforce 275 and the, I think Radeon HD4870/4890.

I haven't kept up to date with all the latest GPU news, I'm not a fanboy of either nVidia or ATI - I just want the best FPS/quality for my buck and a good warranty.

Any suggestions?

and please, no nVidia/ATI fanboymafiawars kthnx :)
 
ENGTX275 is about as high as you can go on a branded nvidia card for that money...


On the ATI side you are looking at an HD4890... :)

You are pretty much on the mark there... I would go GTX275... based on minor differences in performance based on benchmarking results online...
 
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i would wait for the release of the ATI5xxx series cards... if you can of course.

Already considering selling my card to get one of them, but want to see benchmarks first.
 
5850! or go 5870 if you can wait 2 or 3 weeks / save a few more bucks
 
There isn't anything to compete with the 5850 at the R3k price level. It isn't even close.
 
5850 without a doubt! My 8800GT will shortly be replaced by one of these puppies.
 
cerebus said:
Those charts show it coming ahead of the 285 consistently. Look again.
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Yeah, soz, my bad, tho it's not that drmatic, I'll have to see a good price on the 5850 vs the 275, atm I see it'll cost about R800 more for a few FPS.

The Crysis score on the 5850 was 38FPS and 32FPS for the 275, so atm it's a price issue.
 
Crysis is not a good indicator of overall performance comparison. It's a game that has always favoured Nvidia drivers. The best is to take a spread of the fps scores in the resolution you care about, even it out and see the percentage difference between them.

But as for 'a few fps more' - 5850 vs 275 is a slaughter in gfx card terms:

anno - 72 vs 41
FC2 - 46 vs 51
Hawx - 65 vs 51
Crysis warhead - 38 vs 32
Mass effect - 94 vs 87

Etc - COD5 is the only game which gives 275 a lead and i suspect that's a fluke. An average of 6fps better is not a small lead. In terms of graphics cards that's a pretty significant upgrade. that's about the same difference between a 4850 and a 4870.

Get a HD5870 for a few rands more.
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Wow R3600...that's not bad at all. I'd go for that rather if you can stretch it :)
 
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cerebus said:
Crysis is not a good indicator of overall performance comparison. It's a game that has always favoured Nvidia drivers. The best is to take a spread of the fps scores in the resolution you care about, even it out and see the percentage difference between them.

But as for 'a few fps more' - 5850 vs 275 is a slaughter in gfx card terms:

anno - 72 vs 41
FC2 - 46 vs 51
Hawx - 65 vs 51
Crysis warhead - 38 vs 32
Mass effect - 94 vs 87

Etc - COD5 is the only game which gives 275 a lead and i suspect that's a fluke. An average of 6fps better is not a small lead. In terms of graphics cards that's a pretty significant upgrade. that's about the same difference between a 4850 and a 4870.



Wow R3600...that's not bad at all. I'd go for that rather if you can stretch it :)
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Yeah I'm not comparing Crysis with other games, mostly the mindset of "well if it can do crysis at my res at a nice FPS, it'll run any other game at a great FPS" The other games are mostly all well over 60fps, I just use Crysis as a sort of bassis for minimum desired performance.

This was also the case of when Doom 3 came out years ago for me, and it worked well.
 
Any idea on the warranty? Not much info on Sapphire's site.
 
cerebus said:
Crysis is not a good indicator of overall performance comparison. It's a game that has always favoured Nvidia drivers. The best is to take a spread of the fps scores in the resolution you care about, even it out and see the percentage difference between them.

But as for 'a few fps more' - 5850 vs 275 is a slaughter in gfx card terms:

anno - 72 vs 41
FC2 - 46 vs 51
Hawx - 65 vs 51
Crysis warhead - 38 vs 32
Mass effect - 94 vs 87

Etc - COD5 is the only game which gives 275 a lead and i suspect that's a fluke. An average of 6fps better is not a small lead. In terms of graphics cards that's a pretty significant upgrade. that's about the same difference between a 4850 and a 4870.



Wow R3600...that's not bad at all. I'd go for that rather if you can stretch it :)
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ALL PRICES EXCLUDE VAT (14%):)
Subversion said:
This is the best bet for your price range:

http://www.landmarkpc.co.za/store/sapphire-hd5850-game-edition-5850-radeon-hd5850-p-3566.html

Sapphire 5850 for R3141 incl. VAT.

Add shipping costs and it will come in nicely under ur R3,5K budget.
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Sapphire HD5850 Game edition, HDMi ready, 1GB
R3,086.75

Club 3D Radeon HD 5870 - 256-bit, 850MHz Clock, 1024MB 256-bit G
R3,833.03
 
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