HD 4000 series was truly amazing for its generation, the HD4890 was a true powerhouse and the 4870x2 was a fire breathing monste […]
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Hoping wrote on 2022-01-29, 16:00:Don't say it too loud, let them continue to think they were bad so that everyone wants an Nvidia, and so they are cheaper ;) […]
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appiah4 wrote on 2022-01-29, 11:31:
Terascale was fucking great.. HD4850/5850/6850 - you can't go wrong with any of these. Amazing workhorse cards for their time..
Don't say it too loud, let them continue to think they were bad so that everyone wants an Nvidia, and so they are cheaper 😉
Well because of this thread it occurred to me to try some relatively new games on the HD 6970 (6950 bios modded).
On that computer I am limited by the processor, a Phenom II X6 1100T, the lack of SSE4 above all is the problem, so I searched my collection for games that did not require SSE4.
Tales of arise 2021, it is not a very demanding game, and it works in 1080p with everything at its maximum without issues.
Resident evil 2019, in 1080p without problems.
Resident evil 3 (2020) also very playable in 1080p and DX11 of course.
It must be said that I am not a fan of antialiasing, and I deactivate it whenever I can, I do not like how it usually sharpens the image.
Not many games like I said because of the processor, and I'm not going to blindly try and waste a lot of time installing only to find that a game doesn't work.
If a game supports DX11 a 6970 should be able to run it better than a 750ti and better than a 1030 so expensive today.
However, a 750ti or a 1030 also don't have enough power to run new games at average quality, so supporting DX12 isn't the answer to everything either.
HD 4000 series was truly amazing for its generation, the HD4890 was a true powerhouse and the 4870x2 was a fire breathing monster GPU that required a PSU upgrade to run the damn thing .. running two of them was like having the gateway to hell open in your PC. A pair of 4890's in Xfire was an amazing setup, I still have a pair in my collection and went out of my way to grab a few spare Sapphire Vapour-X 4980's they were that good.
HD 5000 was simply a refinement of 4000, faster and not quite as hot but still really good, I own a 5970 which is the dual GPU card and its a grate GPU to play games with, it does run hot but nothing like the 4870x2. The best setup was a pair of HD5850s in SLI since they were cheaper than 5870s and not as power hungry so didn't require a new PSU to run two of them. Lots of people had Xfire HD5850 setups it was that popular, you could even grab a pair of 5850x2's and run quadfire on the cheap.
HD 6000 .. was garbage, more of a reactionary rebadge of HD5000 than anything new from AMD, it ran stupidly hot because it was HD5000 with a tweaked TDP and it was pushing that GPU core to its limits, it wasn't till the HD 7000 series that AMD truly had a competitor to nVidia.
The HD7000 series went on to become the early RX200 series which became the RX300 series which got a fourth rebadge as the RX400 series ...IIRC RX500 series was part rebadge part new tech with Polaris, I never got in at the start of the RX500 series so I cant remember. Just checked and yeah Rx500 series is a refresh of RX400 ..AMD just loves their refresh GPUs.