- I have used this card for 5 months now and it is fast, powerful and runs cool...usually in the mid 30s. At the time it was a good value too but now used ones are selling for more than I paid new for mine. I run X-plane 9 with it and at a resolution of 1280 x 1024 it will keep the fps in the low to mid 20s in urban areas with most of the settings maxed. I have it driving a Matrox Triplehead To Go and at 3840 x 1024 the frame rate drops badly in urban areas. I think this is due to lack of VRAM. This card has 1 gig and I think at multi-screen resolutions 2 gigs are needed. I have recently bought a 2 gig card and after I have some time with it I will update this review.Dave
- Hi, plenty of reviews of the HD 5850 out there. Strong card, equal to or outperforms the HD 6850 at a much lower price. Uses more power than most consumer PCs can supply, so make sure you have a big enough power supply. Its running in an HP i7-920 based system with a 460 watt PSU. Very quiet. Card is large, and needs two PCI power connecters. Included are molex to PCIe adapters if you need them.These cards are now very hard to find. Amazon was showing a 4 week wait when I bought. Now there is no estimated time. (My card can in about 2 weeks).Very happy with purchase.
- 725 MHz Core Clock
- 4000 MHz Memory Clock
- 256-bit GDDR5 Memory
