Gigabyte Working on Radeon HD 5870 1 GHz Super Overclock Model

[mathwat]

Gigabyte is expanding its Super Overclock family of graphics cards with highly tweaked factory overclocking with a model based on the ATI Radeon HD 5870. The Gigabyte GV-R587SO-1GD features a complete design overhaul over AMD's reference design, with the card sporting a typical Gigabyte-blue colored PCB, and a custom-design double-slot VGA cooler. The PCB uses Gigabyte's Ultra Durable VGA construction which makes use of a PCB with 2 oz copper layer, ferrite core chokes, low RDS (on) MOSFETs, and Japanese solid-state capacitors. The VGA cooler consists of a GPU base from which four copper heat pipes convey heat to aluminum fin blocks cooled by two 90 mm fans.

The GV-R587SO-1GD comes with out of the box clock speeds of 1000 MHz (core), and 1300 MHz / 5.20 GHz effective (memory), against reference AMD clock speeds of 850 MHz (core) and 1200 MHz / 4.80 GHz (memory). ATI Eyefinity support is retained with a display connectivity that resembles the reference design: two DVI-D, and one each of DisplayPort and HDMI. The GPU features DirectX 11 compliance, 1600 stream processors, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. It connects to 1 GB of memory.

source :- http://www.techpowerup.com/112849/G...deon_HD_5870_1_GHz_Super_Overclock_Model.html


Looks cool to me.

mathwat

 

[CreAtiv3]

Awesome, good on Gigabyte for this.
I honestly think more companies should be taking the reference designs and improving them as they see fit.

 

[ebilcake]

Or just buy standard version and overclock then use 3rd party cooler to keep temps low, easy and cheaper.

 

[mmj_uk]

I wonder if it's 1Ghz on standard voltage or just an average card with increased voltage via BIOS.

 

[Turambar]

The price premium wont be nearly as impressive.

 

[Baboonanza]

It would be nice if someone would release an Eyefinity card with 2xHDMI instead of DisplayPort.

You know, connectivity people can use instead of one that requires an £80 bloody adapter.

 

[hyperst]

It would be nice if someone would release an Eyefinity card with 2xHDMI instead of DisplayPort.

You know, connectivity people can use instead of one that requires an £80 bloody adapter.

3 dvi's would have been nice, i suppose its all with being in each others pockets though

 

[el Kuarlos]

Sounds nice but my god will you be made to pay for it!

 

[Meaker]

If you look at the prices of their other super overclock cards, they are perfectly reasonable.

Gigabyte don't **** about with their super overclock cards lol.

 

[asoxedri]

price and some benchmarks would be cool to see.

 

[drunkenmaster]

3 dvi's would have been nice, i suppose its all with being in each others pockets though

Its more to do with the fact the vast majority of buyers don't upgrade every year, and display port will be the defacto standard on every new LCD in the future. Not to mention the fact that the vast majority of current 5870 buyers don't go out and purchase 3 screens to use eyefinity, like crossfire its a tiny % of the market. More people will buy a 5870, have one screen and add another in the next couple years than the number of people who have to have eyefinity now.

In 2 years time people will be complaining theres only one displayport on their stupid 5870, and they now only have screens with only displayport on them.

You can't win, there will always be combinations people can't use. Why anyone would pay £80 for an adaptor when its probably cheaper to sell your current monitor and get a newer/better one with a display port connection on it though I don't know.

Awesome, good on Gigabyte for this.
I honestly think more companies should be taking the reference designs and improving them as they see fit.

A company that produces reference designs, and thats about it, requires the equipment to put together other peoples designs, thats it. A company that comes up with completely new pcb's, componentry, R&D testing, compliance testing, safety testing requires an entirely extra, very expensive department on top of the manufacturing. The vast majority of companies simply don't have design departments and can't make their own stuff.

Gigabyte obviously have design guys for their mobo departments, though the cost involved in designing a new pcb, that won't sell that many cards, is pretty large, especially when you have a perfectly good reference design essentially free to use.

My biggest issue with these kinds of cards is, they are always too late to the game, I got a 5850 before the prices went up, I'm not going to switch out to another one now, and its quite possible by the time this is available you buy it for a premium and a 5890 is out within a month or two to compete with Fermi which is faster and costs the same, or even less depending on how much they mark it up.

 

[Rroff]

Or just buy standard version and overclock then use 3rd party cooler to keep temps low, easy and cheaper.

As quoted below - to be fair to gigabyte their prices are pretty reasonable and they aren't just a few normal cards that happen to manage a mild overclock... they are a completely reworked design with slightly lower power consumption - running slightly cooler and are properly hand picked cores that even tho are massively OC'd out the box usually manage another ~10% on top of that.

If you look at the prices of their other super overclock cards, they are perfectly reasonable.

Gigabyte don't **** about with their super overclock cards lol.

I've been extremely impressed with my pair of gigabyte super overclocked cards.

 

[Rroff]

It would be nice if someone would release an Eyefinity card with 2xHDMI instead of DisplayPort.

You know, connectivity people can use instead of one that requires an £80 bloody adapter.

My Gigabyte 260 Super Overclocked came with an adapter to convert the native HDMI into an extra DVI socket - so theres a chance they will pay attention to the connectivity.

 

[Diamondbuild]

Or just buy standard version and overclock then use 3rd party cooler to keep temps low, easy and cheaper.

not possible, I pushed my 5870 to 900/1300 and crashed due to not having enough voltage

 

[Ritsugamesh]

there must be something special to get this running safely and still offer a warranty on it.

Looks like a gem of a card if all works well and without temp issues, just hope the price isn't too crazy.

 

[Zerolimitz]

looks great would love to get it but i have a feeling the price will be over the top..

 

[Rroff]

Gigabyte's SoC models are usually around 20-25% higher price than the stock models... but well worth the money IMO.

 

[Temi_D]

isnt MSI the 1st to do a 1GHz 5870? The cyclone version

 

[Nuwidol]

That'll be cheap. I wonder if it'll still be within regular power draw limits?

 

[Greebo]

Why anyone would pay £80 for an adaptor when its probably cheaper to sell your current monitor and get a newer/better one with a display port connection on it though I don't know.

Problem is if you already have two or three monitors and want to use eyefinity, if you want matching screens you will have to replace all of them which becomes expensive compared to just buying the adaptor.