How about the poor mortals like us? We still have Radeon 8500!

[Cam]

I have an 8500 Retail 64 Meg in my old Athlon 1000 system. I'm curious to see how it handles the new HL2 bench out at the end of the month. I don't think 8500 owners need to feel anywhere as bad as folks who bought 5200 & 5600 GFFx's. They have a right to cry about poor performance.

[Moridin]

Originally posted by Cam
I don't think 8500 owners need to feel anywhere as bad as folks who bought 5200 & 5600 GFFx's. They have a right to cry about poor performance.

I doubt the 8500 will offer any advantage over an FX 5600. Ultimately the 5600 may be better off running in DX8.1 mode, but that is the best you can get out of an 8500, and the 5600 will almost certainly end up being faster in that mode.

[Chuck232]

Originally posted by Moridin
I doubt the 8500 will offer any advantage over an FX 5600. Ultimately the 5600 may be better off running in DX8.1 mode, but that is the best you can get out of an 8500, and the 5600 will almost certainly end up being faster in that mode.

I'm not so sure:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1863&p=8

Take a look at that, especially the FX5600U and R9200 both in DX8.1 modes. As you can see, even the R9200 beats the FX5600U, so why wouldn't a R8500?

[Moridin]

I'm not saying it's out of the question, but I still don't think it will happen. It's difficult to get the best out of the FX series, but in the end I think they should still outperform the 8500. There is still likely to be a lot of legitimate opportunity for driver optimization for the 5600 while the 8500 is basically static at this point.

[Iceball_AARF]

Originally posted by Chuck232
I'm not so sure:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1863&p=8

Take a look at that, especially the FX5600U and R9200 both in DX8.1 modes. As you can see, even the R9200 beats the FX5600U, so why wouldn't a R8500?

The 9200 score was invalidated because of heavy artifacting, they state so in the article.


Peace.

[Chuck232]

Oh yeah... oops.. Guess I missed that.

[proxops-pete]

In the end... just wait till the game comes out and until the other gamers comment on the ACTUAL gameplay/fps, don't worry about it!!

[Cam]

Originally posted by Moridin
I doubt the 8500 will offer any advantage over an FX 5600. Ultimately the 5600 may be better off running in DX8.1 mode, but that is the best you can get out of an 8500, and the 5600 will almost certainly end up being faster in that mode.

I did not mean to imply the 8500 was better or faster than a 5200/5600 really, what I meant was people were buying these cards as "upgrades" thinking they will play HL2 well etc. whereas the guy who started this thread hasn't upgraded at all yet. In other words he is better off staying where he is for the moment than buying a poor performing DX9 card. The lower end GFFX's may have DX9 support but lack the horsepower to run in DX9 mode.