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HD 4890 to 5850?

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I am thinking of upgrading form HD4890 to HD5850 but as always I wonder if I will see any improvement in FSX.Would welcome your thoughts on this matter.My system is made up of:Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Socket 775 LGA @ 3.00GHz. Overclocked to 3.60.Gigabyte EP45_UD3LR motherboard with Award F5 bios. 45nm optimized.4GHz Kingstone Hyper DDR2. Sapphire Radeon HD4890 1GHz.Corsair TX650 power supply.Thermaltake ISGC-300 air cooler.Windows 7 64bit.

Richard Binns
MSFS 2020 & 2024- Asus ROG Strix Z390-E - Skylake i7 9700k - Asus Geforce RTX 4070 Super OC 12gb, 64gig G.Skill TridentZ DDR4 - Thermaltake Thor 850w Platinum PSU - Corsair H150i AIO Liquid CPU Cooler - H150i AIO Liquid CPU Cooler - Thermaltake V71 Case - Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2 500GB  - 2 x Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus V-Nand 1TB

 

I am thinking of upgrading form HD4890 to HD5850 but as always I wonder if I will see any improvement in FSX.Would welcome your thoughts on this matter.
While you are nowhere near maxing out the fillrate on the 4890, you may see better performance in heavy clouds with the 5850. Also if you are running a high resolution e.g. 1920 x 1080 you may see a modest bump in framerates. KJ
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While you are nowhere near maxing out the fillrate on the 4890, you may see better performance in heavy clouds with the 5850. Also if you are running a high resolution e.g. 1920 x 1080 you may see a modest bump in framerates. KJ
Thanks for that. I run @ 1900 X 1200. I notice on some forums they are saying that these new 5xxx cards are much better for running Flight sims.I may save myself A$425. Most of the time I Overclock to 4.09GHz with good results except @ Orbx's Ymml where things get very slow.

Richard Binns
MSFS 2020 & 2024- Asus ROG Strix Z390-E - Skylake i7 9700k - Asus Geforce RTX 4070 Super OC 12gb, 64gig G.Skill TridentZ DDR4 - Thermaltake Thor 850w Platinum PSU - Corsair H150i AIO Liquid CPU Cooler - H150i AIO Liquid CPU Cooler - Thermaltake V71 Case - Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2 500GB  - 2 x Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus V-Nand 1TB

 

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