so today on my video blog we'll be unboxing the XFX Radeon 5850 now these
launched at the same time as the 870s
but the availability hasn't been quite as good for them so let's uh get started
here and cut the seal there we go so
it's pretty much based around the same chip the same amount of RAM all that
kind of stuff but the difference between the 5870 and the 5850 is that it's
clocked a little bit lower and it's also miss a couple of the of the what is it
the processing cores or something like that anyway it's clocked at 725 MHz and
the RAM is clocked at 4.0 GHz instead of 4.8 GHz like the 5870 so let's get this
sort of shoe box style Box open and like all the 58 70s it comes with a free copy
of dirt to and then we've got a quick install guide here there you are there's
your quick install guide then there's a little okay here's a full installation
guide which is actually not that much longer than the quick install guide but
that covers the software aspect of things there we go and then we have a
driver's disc ATI Graphics ATI driver
you're going to want to download the latest drivers anyway though don't bother with that uh under here we have
one of these cool uh door hangers do not disturb I'm gaming then inside here we
have play hard Okay so we've got two Molex to PCI Express six pin adapters
one crossfire Bridge which is quite normal for a radon on card and then we
have a DVI to VGA adapter if you're actually still using a VGA monitor which
uh please get a new monitor because that is quite ancient at this time okay
inside here we will find the 5850 now
you can see it's not quite as well padded as the 5870 but it's also a
slightly smaller card so let's get this
out let's get this closed and here is
the 5850 so on the front of the card
you've got excess effect's graphics and then you've got the same fan they use on
the 5870 then on the top of the card you can see we've got the ATI radon logo two
Crossfire Bridges although I've heard performance is actually better if you
use just one now the back of the card we start seeing a pretty big difference
here because instead of having a black shroud on the back it's only a bare PCB
with a back plate so that's quite different from the other card now on the
back we find two PCI Express six pin connectors and again you're going to
notice a difference you know what why don't I just grab the other card here for comparison okay so here's the 5870
compared to the 5850 you can see it's actually quite a bit longer but on the
5870 the PCI Express connectors are here
whereas on the 5850 they're at the back so you actually have to account for an
extra like you probably 2 3 cm for that
connector and the ca's coming off the back so it's not that much shorter now
these are both PCI Express 16x cards and they both have the same connectors at
the back so you can connect up to three three monitors One DisplayPort and then
you can do either HDMI and DVI or DVI
and DVI it will not work with HDMI DVI
DVI and you can't use a passive DisplayPort to DVI adapter anyway thank you for
checking out my unboxing on the XFX Radeon
hd5850