AMD’s Radeon HD 5770 & 5750: DirectX 11 for the Mainstream Crowd
by Ryan Smith on October 13, 2009 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
HAWX
HAWX is another game that’s not particularly GPU-bound, which means we can turn in some high numbers.
The 5770 fares better at HAWX. Not good, but better. As compared to the 4870, we lose around 10%. The situation versus the GTX 260 isn’t very good however.
With the 5750, we have a break-even proposition. It loses one resolution and wins another by roughly the same amounts. It also does rather well here against the GTS 250 at 2560.
Meanwhile that $100 more on a 5850 only gets you 30%-40% more performance. We’re probably approaching a CPU-bound situation here.
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endlesszeal - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
sorry, if this seems newbest since im still using DVI. anyway, i did a quick peak at apples site and only saw minidp to dvi dongle. however, i jumped over to monoprice and found this:http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id...">http://www.monoprice.com/products/produ...1&p_...
would that work?
Xajel - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
Nope this wont work, the card(s) has only two TMDS's for one DVI and one DVI or HDMI, you can't use two DVI's + HDMI...if you want to connect the third monitor you have to use Display Port, and adapters won't work since DP on this card doesn't support DVI single Pass through ( this will need a seperated TMDS chip )
there's some devices that support DVI/HDMI pass throught using DisplayPort, I'm talking about Apple latest Mac's where they dropped DVI/HDMI and replaced it with DP... that one supports DVI/HDMI adapters as it has it's own TMDS chip which is required for DVI/HDMI signals...
elfick - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
Monitors with HDMI seem fairly common and DP-HDMI adapters appear to be cheap. Could you do DP-HDMI, HDMI, and DVI for a triple monitor setup?Ryan Smith - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
DP-HDMI is still a passive converter, so it still won't work.Ryan Smith - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
No, it has to be an active (powered) adapter. You can tell if one is active if it has a USB plug, since that's where they're drawing power from.Minion4Hire - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
It has to be powered if you wish to run dual-link DVI. The single-link MonoPrice adapter will work fine for resolutions up to 1920x1200. But most people looking to run Eyefinity will probably be wanting to go whole-hog with 2560x1600 given the large price tag already associated with such a setup.kzig - Thursday, October 29, 2009 - link
If I want to run 3 1280 x 1024 monitors together as 3840 x 1024 in Eyefinity, will I need an active adapter, or can I use a cheaper passive one?BladeVenom - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
The Apple one is poorly rated. Dell has one, but it to is $100. And just to rerepeat that, it has to be an active adapter. http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Cables...">http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/prod...us&l...Ryan Smith - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
I was going to respond to this, but Xajel took the words out of my mouth. Just read his post, it explains why an active adapter is required.bijeshn - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
Phasing out the 4870 is a bad idea. With time I look forward to the 4870 dropping even lower in price...