Comments on: ATI Mobility Radeon HD5850 1 GB DDR3 first benchmarks

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:05:19 +0000

I just bought an Alienware with the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 with GDDR5 and the performance is piss poor. Even with the newest drivers the computer with an i7 6GB memory and win 7 64bit can’t run any 3D applications with playable framerates at native resolution. I’m FURIOUS and dell/alienware are too stupid to test their computers before they ship them so they don’t know about the problem. EPIC FAIL.

By: Vadim

Vadim — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:23:33 +0000

I bought a 8942, I AM satisfied with the laptop, but not with the performance of the 5850. It was not a cheap machine and i bought it for BFBC2, which i expected to run on full resolution on medium settings. Instead, I run it on minimum resolution with high texture and a couple of other things on medium for it to be PLAYABLE (not ideal). I am praying for better drivers. Laptop itself is really nice though :)

By: Bastian

Bastian — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:21:20 +0000

I bought the Acer 8942g-728 book and I am totally satisfied.
It is a desktop replacement it is not a high end gaming system replacement (No notebook will ever replace a such a system). (Also Bioshock 2, Borderland, WoW, Unreal Tournament 3, lastest Wolfenstein etc. runs full hd, highest quality … so wtf?)
And buying a Clevo-Book with the same feature, beside the VGA-Chip, you will pay more than 1000 Euro ( or $1450) additionally to get 8 GB RAM, a BluRay-Writer, a TV-Tuner, a Remote Controll and not to mention 1,3 TB ( sic est) harddisk capacity….

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:51:07 +0000

I would just like to point out Acer can choose how to incorporate AMD/ATI cards. it could have had 256bit-width but that was Acer cutting it in half not AMD/ATI

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Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:00:10 +0000

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By: The Twisted Team

The Twisted Team — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:56:49 +0000

It is a choice of price and Acer does not manufacture cards themselves. If the GDDR5 version was more expensive what would you chose? Acer never takes fees for “name” and they sell cheap. Given that take into the consideration we are talking about a laptop with price like 1600-1700 EUR in Europe, which is high price for Acer.

We cannot blame Acer for the fact ATI advertises their new graphics cards and especially HD5850 more like a high-end. It turns that the only high-end laptop card they have is the HD5870 with GDDR5 or, if we ever see that – HD5850 GDDR5. And we do not believe the GDDR5 memory will fix everything anyway.

Right now HD5650 is much better choice with similar performance and features at few times lower cost.

By: Boogabooga

Boogabooga — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:53:25 +0000

I say, blame Acer not AMD/ATI.
If Acer paired the 5850 with GDDR5, this review would have been completely different.

By: The Twisted Team

The Twisted Team — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:59:07 +0000

Acer Aspire 5740G, 5942G, 7740G, 8942G ATI Mobility Radeon HD5650 and HD5850 drivers for Windows 7:

ATI Mobility Radeon HD5850 driver

ATI Mobility Radeon HD5650 driver