Reviewers Liked

  • Excellent Overclocking, Free game, Build quality, Price
  • Good performance; XFX warranty; interesting cooler design
  • Wide range of supported FSAA modes, Best Edgedetect CFAA in the industry, Best anisotropic filtering in the industry, Supports up to three monitors, DirectX 11, Shader Model 5.0 and DirectCompute 11 support, Fullyfledged hardware HD video decoding, Highqu
  • Silvertachaward.png, Robust, modern power supply design, Unmatched feature set, 1250 MHz Samsung GDDR5 memory, Full 256bit memory architecture, 1.79 TeraFLOPS of doubleprecision computing, Free Aliens vs. Predators game, DoubleLifetime warranty, H

Reviewers Didn't Like

  • Needs a better GPU Cooler
  • Priced too high for the performance; needs more space than a 5850
  • Performance is too low for the price, Yields to Radeon HD 4890 and GeForce GTX 275 in some cases, Extremely limited RBE subsystem, Relatively high power consumption, No PhysX acceleration support
  • Only 1120 Stream Processors, Only 16 ROPs, same as HD 5770, No software voltage control, can limit OC abilities, Stock fan settings make GPU too hot, Stock GPU clock is nearly maxed out, Requires more power than stock HD 5850