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In our opinion, Sapphire hit the nail straight on the head with their HD 5870 Toxic but it’s also important to remember that it can’t perform the miracles many people were hoping it would. There were many that had unrealistic expectations that a HD 5870 equipped with 2GB of memory would somehow be the silver bullet that put an end to the GTX 480 even before it got off the ground. Let’s make this clear right from the start: that’s not going to happen. Nonetheless, this card is able to play with the big boys and offers excellent performance across every single game without the performance drop-off at 2560 x 1600 which plagues NVIDIA’s flagship products...
...There are however some issues you should be aware of and as we alluded to in the introduction, the 2GB of memory is mostly window dressing. If you are playing game at or below 1920 x 1200 resolution you will likely never benefit from the extra memory on this card. Even if you are using a massive 30” monitor with every IQ setting cranked, there is at most a negligible difference in most games. Yes, there are a few games like Metro 2033 that seem to be extremely framebuffer limited but they are few and far between. It could be argued that Eyefinity setups could benefit from a 2GB configuration but that’s a subject we will be covering in a future review. This bears repeating again: the HD 5870 IS NOT framebuffer-limited at any single-screen resolution, even with literally every single in game IQ setting pushed to its max. Period.
It will wow?!! I havent seen that before!I have owned both cards. The 5870 will get a higher pure GPU score in Vantage and certain bencmarks
SLI-FIRE scalability: http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/geforce-gtx480-sli/avp.png
Being completely based on facts, I'd say go 5870 2GB edition. It will offer slightly improved scores over the ones here, but it might raise tempuratures and power consumption too. Also, the 5870 seems to perform better in crossfire at higher resolutions, if you care. The additional memory in the 5870 2GB will also help when compared to the 480. Spend the extra couple bucks.
Thank you guys
Some where advised me to find Deal that has the best performance against price by buying two GTX 460 card for this i will get them at a temperature less than the GTX 480 as well as higher performance of the HD 5870 and GTX 480
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maybe i will use two
I'd go with 460 1GB in SLI over both the 480 and 5870