ATI 5850 vs GTX 470

[LakshanA]

Hello friends,

I am going to buy new graphics card, basically for gaming purpose. I have two choices for this graphics card, which are ATI Radeon HD 5850 and another is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470. I am not able to get which is the best graphics card between these two. I have referred many websites, but didn't get more details over these graphics car. If you have any suggestions about these ATI Radeon HD 5850 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470, then please let me know that. I am waiting for your reply.

[Marthaz]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 gives your games an adrenaline shot with incredible performance and futuristic, visually-stunning graphics. Experience heart-pounding, cinematic visuals on your favorite games with the combined power of DirectX 11, CUDA, and NVIDIA PhysX technologies. And expand your visual real estate across three HD displays in jaw-dropping stereoscopic 3D for the ultimate in immersive gaming. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470: pure adrenaline meets visual bliss.

[ApPy10]

You can get high-definition gaming experience with ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card. You can also enlarge your visual upto three displays and get lost in the exploit with innovative ATI Eyefinity Technology. This graphics card is based on the ‘ATI Stream technology’, that increase speed even the most challenging applications and do further than ever with your computer.

[Team Leader]

Please go through the following features of ATI Radeon HD 5870:

1. HDR texture compression
2. Based on ATI Stream acceleration technology
3. Integrate Shader Model 5.0
4. Advanced video playback accelerator 'UVD 2'

[kiLLer]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 allows, among other things smoother video display and store the information necessary for the synthesis of 3D images. The modern operating systems like Windows Vista, Mac OS or GNU / Linux both require a large amount of video memory to optimize their display. As for the latest video games, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 work even better as the amount of video memory is important.

[Amd Athlon]

According to my information the ATI 5850 is derived from RV770 with a fine engraving improved (40 nm). These are also the first cards to support DirectX 11. It is characterized by the presence of six mini connectors Display Port allowing a six-screen display (7680x3200). The announcement of this technology allows ATI to compete indirectly Matrox which already proposed solutions multi-screen with the M9188, and M9148.

[Nihir]

Both these ATI Radeon HD 5850 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 graphics card comprises quite similar features. NVIDIA and ATI / AMD, the two leading manufacturers of high performance graphics cards offer all proprietary solutions in order to use their product for scientific computing. The GPU has become a component very complex, very specialized and almost unbeatable in its class (rendering 3D images). Except for some video games or use computer graphics, the possibilities of graphics cards are little used in practice.