In the network there are some details about the upcoming graphics chips AMD Radeon HD 5870. Resource Czech Gamer compared the new video card with the current heavyweights, including the Radeon HD 4870 X2, Radeon HD 4890 and GeForce GTX 285. According to the results of the tests can make the following conclusions:

Performance Radeon HD 5870 by about 5 ~ 155% higher than the performance of GeForce GTX 285. This is a very large range, leaving plenty of room for conjecture.

In comparison with the GeForce GTX 295 performance of the new chip ranges from -25% (i.e. 25% slower) to 95% (i.e. almost 2 times faster), another range.

Two graphics card for HD 5870 showed the result of -5% (5% slower) to 90% (90% faster) compared to the GeForce GTX 295. Ironically, the maximum output is less than one card.

When installing three graphics cards HD 5870 in the configuration of 3-way CrossFireX performance by 10 ~ 160% faster than GeForce GTX 295.

On the other hand, the performance of a single graphics card on a chip Radeon HD 5850 can be from -25% (25% slower) to 120% (to 120% faster) compared with the performance GeForce GTX 285.