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AMD Radeon HD 5870 Adds DX11, Multi-Monitor Gaming
Vigile writes "Few people will doubt that PC gaming is in need of a significant shot in the arm with the consistent encroachment of consoles and their dominating hold on developers. Today AMD is releasing the Radeon HD 5870 graphics card based on the Evergreen-series of GPUs first demonstrated in June. Besides offering best-in-class performance for a single-GPU graphics board, the new card is easily the most power efficient in terms of idle power consumption and performance per watt. Not only that, but AMD has introduced new features that could help keep PC gaming in the spotlight, including the first DirectX 11 implementation and a very impressive multi-monitor gaming technology, Eyefinity, which we discussed earlier this month. The review at PC Perspective includes the full gamut of gaming benchmarks in both single- and dual-GPU configurations as well as videos of Eyefinity running on three 30" displays."
There is that. Then there's the cost. How much is this card? $380 says techreport.com? That's enough to buy a complete PS3 that'll also play Blu-Ray, plus a 2nd controller and probably a game too.
Really? How big a hard drive does this card come with?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
You completely, totally, miss the point of my post. Look at the post I replied to - it was about why consoles are gaining in the gaming world.
I wasn't talking about image quality. I didn't try and compare the output of the card to that of a PS3.
All I mentioned was that, for the high quality you desire, you need to pay as much for the video card as others would for a complete, functional games console.
Do you really dispute that cost is a significant reason as to why consoles have such a large share of the gaming market?