HD5970 4GB!

Ryan-3 · 13 Apr 2010 at 12:40

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, but hey

Even though I personally thought a HD5770 is good enough for gaming, and that a 5970 is over priced
and not really needed,they release a 4Gb version. Heres is some of the article from Tweaktown as they test
one of the four models made, and here are a few of their results.

From tweaktown.com

The GPU itself.

Some benchmarks.

[*]Farcry 2.

[*]Battleforge.

[*]3D Mark Score.

This card doe's look quite a beast, and wouldn't mind seeing what it doe's on Crysis, but I would still expect atleast
an £800 price tag.
The the full article if you want to see more

Liampope · 13 Apr 2010 at 12:51

Is that a tripple slot card? :eek:

Crazy.

bhavv · 13 Apr 2010 at 12:54

Yea they are making these triple slot. The Asus Ares is as well.

bakes0310 · 13 Apr 2010 at 15:26

Anyone wanna guess on the price?

FrenchTart · 13 Apr 2010 at 15:31

They really need to post some eyefinity benchmarks. This 2560x1600 low res malarky isn't really fully utilising the card.

Ease · 13 Apr 2010 at 15:33

Those are some pretty unfair benches as well, as the 480 is a single GPU and the 5970 is a double. A fairer comparison would be 480 vs 295 vs 5870 vs 5970-4gb.

asoxedri · 13 Apr 2010 at 15:33

bakes0310 said:
Anyone wanna guess on the price?

somewhere near the mars edition nvidia cards made a while back, possibly slightly lower as its ati.

bakes0310 · 13 Apr 2010 at 15:38

Do we know the length of it yet?

As for price are we looking at £600-£700?

asoxedri · 13 Apr 2010 at 15:45

doubt it. 5970 2gb version is 550.

bakes0310 · 13 Apr 2010 at 15:47

asoxedri said:
doubt it. 5970 2gb version is 550.

so what you saying.....double :eek:

Mr Paul · 13 Apr 2010 at 15:49

Ease said:
Those are some pretty unfair benches as well, as the 480 is a single GPU and the 5970 is a double. A fairer comparison would be 480 vs 295 vs 5870 vs 5970-4gb.

Not really, fastest ATI vs fastest nVidia......

FrenchTart · 13 Apr 2010 at 15:50

Ease said:
Those are some pretty unfair benches as well, as the 480 is a single GPU and the 5970 is a double. A fairer comparison would be 480 vs 295 vs 5870 vs 5970-4gb.

Fairest comparison is similarly priced cards vs each other...

eyetrip · 13 Apr 2010 at 16:22

Couldn't understand why the memory was making such a diff at soem of those games/resolutions - until I looked on the article to see it is clocked at 900MHz, which is quite a bit higher than the 725 of the 2GB version.

Drake22 · 13 Apr 2010 at 16:40

the 5870 1 and 2gb dont make any difference even in triple eyefinity resolution (5760x1080 or so), so i dont see how is this making such difference either

dmxdex2020 · 13 Apr 2010 at 16:56

Imaging 3 of them LOL 12 gig of video memory. You would never have to worry about video memory being an issue for a long time. 3 of them would see you through DX11.

Ryan-3 · 13 Apr 2010 at 17:04

Hex-Fire?

Would be pretty insane though, 200fps+ on Crysis?

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 13 Apr 2010 at 17:04

Idle power consumption is lower than a GTX480!! :eek:

OTH,load power consumption is around 50 watts higher though.

D D Danneh · 13 Apr 2010 at 17:05

dmxdex2020 said:
Imaging 3 of them LOL 12 gig of video memory. You would never have to worry about video memory being an issue for a long time. 3 of them would see you through DX11.

1) The memory doesn't double or triple, I believe it's mirrored across all the GPU's.

2) AFAIK, gaming drivers don't support 6 GPU's, so that's a no go

3) You'd need a case with 9 PCI-E brackets and a motherboard with 3 PCI-E x16 spaced 3 slots apart, which doesn't exist, I don't think.

dmxdex2020 · 13 Apr 2010 at 17:09

8 gig will do then.

bhavv · 13 Apr 2010 at 17:24

£600-£700, around $1000 for the special OC'ed 4 Gb models.

I'm dreaming of an Asus Ares to go with my R3E

.

Ooooh, even an Asus Ares plus a ROG edition 2 Gb 5870, that would be soooooooo sweeeeeet to play with

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