Video Cards

**Lemur** · 04-21-2011, 00:25

The elastic definition of the "business day" is awful when you're waiting for parts. You have my sympathies.

**slysnake** · 04-25-2011, 16:41

I think the best value AMD/ATI card you could go for right now, considering price, efficiency, and the performance it offers, is the AMD Radeon HD 6950 2gb. You get amazing performance for the price that you pay for it (around about £200). It would also offer you at least equal performance to 2x 1GB 6950's, whilst at the same time being cheaper. Also, don't waste your time with the 68xx series, since they are just rebranded 58xx's with just a couple of tweaks, hence their generous pricing.

However, it all depends what sort of games you play most. If you are playing games such as Shogun 2 and other TW games, I would recommend spending more money on your CPU, since, after getting my 6950, I didn't get much of an FPS boost compared to my old 4850! So ignoring what I just said above, you might, instead, want to invest in a cheaper AMD card such as one of the 58xx card, which in themselves, are very respectable cards :)

Hope this helps ^_^

**naut** · 04-25-2011, 22:23

Originally Posted by slysnake

Also, don't waste your time with the 68xx series, since they are just rebranded 58xx's with just a couple of tweaks, hence their generous pricing.

68xx is closer to 57xx

**LeftEyeNine** · 04-25-2011, 23:45

Originally Posted by Psychonaut

68xx is closer to 57xx

Ditto.

**slysnake** · 04-26-2011, 18:17

Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine

Ditto.

I never bought a 5xxx card, I skipped a whole genration, so I'm a little rusty on what's what with it ^^

**LeftEyeNine** · 04-29-2011, 21:32

I have an HD5870 from the end of 2009 and it still as capable such that it can run S2TW all settings maxed out.

**Furunculus** · 05-07-2011, 14:18

Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine

I have an HD5870 from the end of 2009 and it still as capable such that it can run S2TW all settings maxed out.

yeah, my 2GB 5870 is quite capable of running S2 at 5860x1200.

**Ironside** · 05-05-2011, 14:43

Originally Posted by slysnake

I think the best value AMD/ATI card you could go for right now, considering price, efficiency, and the performance it offers, is the AMD Radeon HD 6950 2gb. You get amazing performance for the price that you pay for it (around about £200). It would also offer you at least equal performance to 2x 1GB 6950's, whilst at the same time being cheaper. Also, don't waste your time with the 68xx series, since they are just rebranded 58xx's with just a couple of tweaks, hence their generous pricing.

Actually, the performance difference between 1GB 6950 and 2GB 6950 is negligent atm. It might change with time, but now they're equal. That still makes it a good card though.

I've been digging through a lot of test results lately so.

**Lemur** · 05-05-2011, 15:53

Originally Posted by Ironside

I've been digging through a lot of test results lately so.

Yeah, I've been hearing that too. A 1 gig frame buffer seems to be the sweet spot, although, as you say, that's at the moment. Maybe Crysis 6 will require a terabyte frame buffer. Such things happen.