• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

ATI 5870 2048 MB EYEFINITY 6 PRODUCT LAUNCH - IN STOCK NOW FROM £429.99 inc VAT

phill1978 said:
sapphire_5850_3.jpg


Radeon 5850 Toxic

been reviewed on a few sites, runs nice and cool/quiet also.

unfortunatley it would seem that unless you run AA with eyefinity the 1gb is actually a frame or two faster... but hey you might wanna run AA or in future games may run even higher HQ textures like the new crysis ?

also.. 2 x these badboys is 4GB video RAM :cool:

review

http://www.pureoverclock.com/review.php?id=940&page=1
Click to expand...

ahhh very nice, any pricing on these?
 
I find it strange that people are comparing the 5870 1Gb, 5870 2Gb and the GTX480 with each other.

Eyefinity card is marketed at segment of the market thats going to be small in size and their for not many sales will be made. Display port furthers that basis.

So the card's price will be a lot higher for this model since they wont offset the costs that a large run and market would allow.

I would be more inclinded to compare this to a 5870 1Gb plus a matrox multi screen card or even 2x 5870 1Gb cards for price and functionality.
 
Defiant306 said:
I find it strange that people are comparing the 5870 1Gb, 5870 2Gb and the GTX480 with each other.

Eyefinity card is marketed at segment of the market thats going to be small in size and their for not many sales will be made. Display port furthers that basis.

So the card's price will be a lot higher for this model since they wont offset the costs that a large run and market would allow.

I would be more inclinded to compare this to a 5870 1Gb plus a matrox multi screen card or even 2x 5870 1Gb cards for price and functionality.
Click to expand...

And the other top end cards arent? You do realise that the majority of company profits and sales come from the OEM market where they sell the low and midrange cards by the millions to pre built computer companies. The top end of all the cards acts as a technology showcase to help the sales of the mid and low end cards more than the sales of the top end kit.
 
I really don't get why people are expecting these cards to offer more performance than what is allready available etc.

As far as I am aware the this is a 5870 with some extra ram (which equates to a very small performance gain). It costs a lot compared to a normal 5870 because it has 6 outputs. This is what you are paying for and should only be considered by people looking to have 4+ monitors running on a single card.
 
overclick said:
I really don't get why people are expecting these cards to offer more performance than what is allready available etc.

As far as I am aware the this is a 5870 with some extra ram (which equates to a very small performance gain). It costs a lot compared to a normal 5870 because it has 6 outputs. This is what you are paying for and should only be considered by people looking to have 4+ monitors running on a single card.
Click to expand...

After the 480 benchmarks, people suspected that the loss in 5-10% per game would be nullified by increasing the memory levels on the boards to similar levels. 1gb 5870 vs 1.5gb 480 the 480 wins in 9/10 tests so people naturally thought that the 5870 was being held back by only have 1gb of RAM.

Turns out though its no faster unless your gaming at an extremely high res (basically 2 or more monitors) WITH AA enabled, otherwise you actually lose FPS due to the lag caused from the larger frame buffer on the 2gb boards.
 
James J said:
And the other top end cards arent? You do realise that the majority of company profits and sales come from the OEM market where they sell the low and midrange cards by the millions to pre built computer companies. The top end of all the cards acts as a technology showcase to help the sales of the mid and low end cards more than the sales of the top end kit.
Click to expand...

Im fully aware that Both ATi and Nvidia make most of their sales from the £100-250 price bracket.
But as it stands the 5870 Eyefinity card is a top end card that went for one specialised line IE 6 screens connected at any one time.

Also Technology show cases only work if you can pay the bills and I bet these will be costing a bomb to make since their hasnt been an ATI or Nvidia product before in general customer market that can connect 6 screens on a single card with the performance of a 5870.

That kind of tech costs and sales of these cards will be rare for ATI.
I bet the numbers for selling these cards are even rarer than sales of the 5970 due to the nature of the connections and the way the card design is being aimed.

I mean come on go a spec me a 5870 1GB and a Matrox card to allow a total of 6 screens, or even a GTX480 and a Matrox card.

Its just not compareable to a standard 5870 or a GTX480, imo it shouldnt be.
 
Defiant306 said:
Im fully aware that Both ATi and Nvidia make most of their sales from the £100-250 price bracket.
But as it stands the 5870 Eyefinity card is a top end card that went for one specialised line IE 6 screens connected at any one time.

Also Technology show cases only work if you can pay the bills and I bet these will be costing a bomb to make since their hasnt been an ATI or Nvidia product before in general customer market that can connect 6 screens on a single card with the performance of a 5870.

That kind of tech costs and sales of these cards will be rare for ATI.
I bet the numbers for selling these cards are even rarer than sales of the 5970 due to the nature of the connections and the way the card design is being aimed.

I mean come on go a spec me a 5870 1GB and a Matrox card to allow a total of 6 screens, or even a GTX480 and a Matrox card.

Its just not compareable to a standard 5870 or a GTX480, imo it shouldnt be.
Click to expand...

It HAS to be compared to what it is technologically speaking. Its the same core as the 1gb 5870 so why shouldn't it be benchmarked against it? Its a single GPU solution, just like the 480 so the same question still remains.

Most of the OEM market is £50-£150 at best btw due to the enormous bulk buying companies do to get the prices down.

I highly doubt that people would actually buy one of these for 6 monitors due to its performance on games across all 6 of them, plus the bezels. It makes more sense to get a 5850 2gb and use 3 monitor eyefinity setup and enjoy the large resolution with some AA added.

You can't compare a matrox card to a flagship ATI product as the matrox card is what, 9 year old at least?
 
hmm, whois this card for? surely it won't be powerful enough to power 6 screens...

unless you o/c and crossfire them, that should give betterthan 5970 performance wth 6 screens, is that correct?
 
Mr Fujisawa said:
hmm, whois this card for? surely it won't be powerful enough to power 6 screens...
Click to expand...

That's what I pondered earlier, a 5970 version would have been more sensible with just a standard "no thrills" 2GB 5870 for those who want more memory.

I get the impression that AMD aren't interested in selling too many 2GB cards this generation perhaps there is just less profit in it.
 
Mr Fujisawa said:
hmm, whois this card for? surely it won't be powerful enough to power 6 screens...

unless you o/c and crossfire them, that should give betterthan 5970 performance wth 6 screens, is that correct?
Click to expand...

No it's not powerful enough for 6 screens gaming wise.

If you want 6 screens, surely you'd just get two 5450s or something?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom