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Old 21-09-2009, 19:24   #30
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Re: So whose buying an Ati 5xxx gfx card when they are out :).

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Originally Posted by RizzyKing View Post
All we have right now are leaked benchmarks nothing official but at the minute the single gpu 5870 is comparable to the dual gpu nvidia 295. Have to remember that the 5870 is being benched on early drivers and will get a little better with mature drivers. But short answer is yes they are better then most nvidia cards with only the 295 having an advantage in some but not all games.
The drivers aren't immature. Aside from the configuration of the shader clusters, it's pretty much the same architecture, only everything is doubled.

The drivers for the 5xxx series should be as stable as the 4xxx series.
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