My experience with Radeon 5850 vs. GTX 285

[Mustang5521]

Recently, I purchased a Radeon 5850 which I ended up returning. After that I purchased a GTX 285, which I installed yesterday, and it's working great!

Here are the differences I experienced between the two video cards:

Radeon 5850 - Gave boot load error problems that couldn't be fixed even after updating bios and updating chipset drivers. Would constantly boot me out of WinXP until I ran Driver Sweeper and reinstalled ATI drivers again (control panel add/remove program wasn't enough to uninstall my previous Nvidia drivers). Power Management options did not work, and kept doing a complete reboot of system when coming out of standby mode. Overall just a problematic video card with problems that were basically impossible to fix even after numerous calls to several different technical support departments. Found out from Asus forums that Radeon 5000 series have known problems with Asus Nforce motherboards (even ones like mine without an onboard graphics card) and there is no solution. Fan can get loud, runs somewhat hot (without overclocking).

GTX 285 - No problems at all. Only needed to install proper drivers (which is normal for any video card install). Equivalent in-game performance to Radeon 5850. Fan is quiet, runs cooler than Radeon 5850 (without overclocking). Great video card!!

Now I know why the GTX 285 cost me $75 more than the Radeon 5850. In this case, I definitely got what I paid for.

 

[AMW1011]

No , you should be tired from pulling your hissy fit earlier in the thread when people tell you the facts that the GTX 285 trades blows with the 5850, I can show you half the 5850 launch reviews that show it.
Grow up, with your lie ***.
Heres a article that compare the 285 to the 5870
http://www.insidehw.com/Reviews/Graphics-cards/ATI-Radeon-HD-5870-vs-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX285/Page-5.html
But of course all the ATI fanbois here , use the 5870 figures in their delusions of Grandeur for the 5 series cards when they force feed them down everyones throat.

Edit: the gtx 260,275 are together because they have NO COMPETITION from ATI.
The 5770 is slower than the 4870 the GTX 260 runs with those, yawn 2 year old tech, and the GTX 275 spanks the 4890.

Well lets see:

1. You say that the GTX 285, just, trades blows with the 5850, but then you say that the GTX 275 spanks the 4890? Funny I'm pretty sure they were far closer to each other and traded far more blows than the GTX 285 vs 5850.

Lets compare:
4890 vs GTX 275 in Crysis Warhead:

Now 5850 vs. GTX 285 in Crysis Warhead:

Hmm, looks like the 5850 beats the GTX 285 far more than the GTX 275 beats the 4890.

How about Far Cry 2?
4890 vs GTX 275

5850 vs. GTX 285

Wow, the 5850 and the GTX 285 don't even trade blows, while the 4890 and the GTX 275 are pretty close.

Well I guess that if the GTX 275 spanks the 4890 then the 5850 rapes the GTX 285 twice, beats it, and leaves it bloody and crying in an alley. 😱

 

[Guest]

Oh yeah, the "reasonable" thing to do it to pull apart my entire system, install a new motherboard, and then hope that the Radeon 5850 works well with it. Pffffttt......real smart there.

I think I'll just keep my more compatible (with hardware and software) and equally fast GTX 285 (with the additional PhysX feature), thank you very much.

Oh and another thing, with the Radeon 5850, suddenly my MagicTune Premium software (that came with my Samsung monitor) stopped working because the video card was "unsupported". Gotta love ATI and their fantastic compatibility.

Oh yes! The AMAZING PhysX feature! YEAH! The one getting f*cking outdated and replaced by open source OpenCL software, totally worth the PhysX! Indeed.

Equally fast?pfft

1.- Nvidia chipset with an ATI card! Yeah, Nvidia loves to make friends with ATI. They work together.(that was sarcasm if you didn't get it)
2.- Wow! I was astonished by how your AMAZING HARDWARE made the GTX285 equally fast as the 5850! Nahh, don't bother reading and watching benchmarks, reviews and comparison videos. Seriously, get some decent hardware. You're bottlenecking the 5850 with your stupidity and hardware.
3.- Oh yeah! The amazing very important outstanding MagicTune that you really need! Yeah! What a shame there are compatibility problems. Also, you have the necessary hardware, drivers and software. Ofc...
4.- "Hoping that the 5850 fits with it."? You're questioning the compatibility between an AMD chipset and an AMD GPU. Indeed that is very clever, WATCH OUT FOR AMD - AMD PROBLEMZZ!!!!

 

[Guest]

Oh, also, the card came out a few months ago and you expect it to be 100% compatible and functional? Are you insane?

Every single card that came out had issues in the beggining, the GTX285 had a lot of them too, and it's been around for... like 2 years or something.

 

[bystander]

Why bring this old post back?

 

[shadow187]

NOT AGAIN?!
D:

 

[Headspin_02]

Wait a sec... you paid 75 bucks more for an older video card that has no DX11 support, is slower and you are happy with it?.

Next time do yourself a favor and spend those 75$ on a motherboard that has AMD chipset and not and NVIDIA chipset (probably the source of the problem) and spare us the propaganda.

sOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT TO ME.

 

[yummerzzz]

Way to Necro.

 

[Mousemonkey]

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