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When will the first AMD 6870 review be out?

cainer

cainer

cainer

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so when are we likely to see the first proper un-biased reviews with benchmarks for this card?
im ditching my CF 5870 vapor-X's (already put one to auction) to go for a single faster GPU, once ive seen some benchies V's the gtx480 il know which way i want to go, surely some review site must be close to giving us some info??
 
Gah - Your title got me excited for nothing... :p

To answer your question, there is some kind of launch-type event in early October (the 12th maybe?), but that is likely to just be announcing the hardware, similar to what was done for the 5-series last year.

No-one knows for sure (apart from those under NDA), but it seems reasonable to expect late October for the mid-range cards, and some time in November for the 6870. Formal reviews will happen on launch-day, but based on past experience, in the couple of weeks leading up to the launch we will get an increasingly accurate picture of performance via leaked benchmarks.
 
hmm, looks like il have to do with just 1 5870 for a couple of months then, i was hoping to find out some more on the 6870 a bit sooner than that :/
 
Skeng said:
Something tells me a 6870 isnt going to be faster than 5870CF.
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i was looking to move to a single card, ive no CF issues as such its just i dont need the horsepower and i wanted to part with them while i can get some reasonable funds back, in a couple of months the 2nd hand market will be awash with them
 
sorry lads on reading it back i can see its a bit misleading :/
how do i go about a title change?, admins are welcome to change it, just needs "when will we see" added :)
 
Edited the title for being generally misleading.

And in answer to the OP.

The first reviews will be out when the card is released, unsurprisingly!
 
Skeng said:
Something tells me a 6870 isnt going to be faster than 5870CF.
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Possibly quite true. I moved from CF 4870 512MB to a single 5850 1GB, and in benchmarks theres a 5-10% loss depending on the review you look at.

However, thats in games that support CF 100%. For the most part, I'd have to say my FPS experience is more stable and better all round.

@OP Grrr you I also thought I was gonna see some numbers :P
 
NathWraith said:
Edited the title for being generally misleading
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thanks for that, i didnt mean it to be misleading.. but i didnt give it enough thought :p

NathWraith said:
And in answer to the OP.

The first reviews will be out when the card is released, unsurprisingly!
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so if i buy one on the day its released there will be no reviews or benchmarks for me to see to judge my purchase on in the weeks leading up to them being available?
 
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cainer said:
so if i buy one on the day its released there will be no reviews or benchmarks for me to see to judge my purchase on in the weeks leading up to them being available?
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No...

BUT - there will almost certainly be plenty of leaks relating to performance in various benchmarks.

Also, the mid-range cards will have been released already, so given that you will know the specs of the high end cards with a fair degree of certainty, and will know the 'per-shader-core' performance increase from the reviews of the mid-range cards, you will already have a fairly good idea of performance.

It's rare that there any any really big surprises by launch day...
 
There seems to be some "fake?" gpu-z screenies already but thinking about it they seem quite correct with core at 850 and mem at 1600, having around 200gb/s bandwith which looks like about 20-25% increase over 58xx series which is what I'll be expecting.

Hopefully we get some good pricing this round due to better response from nvidia.
I'd like to see a 6830/6850 at 150-170 mark.
 
Scougar said:
When? When the NDA's are lifted.

Does anyone know when that will be?
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Depends if AMD are going for a paper launch or hard launch tbh.

If paper then benchmarks and review will be available before the card arrives instock anywhere but if it is a hard launch it is anyones guess until you actually receive the card.
 
Duff-Man said:
No...

BUT - there will almost certainly be plenty of leaks relating to performance in various benchmarks.

Also, the mid-range cards will have been released already, so given that you will know the specs of the high end cards with a fair degree of certainty, and will know the 'per-shader-core' performance increase from the reviews of the mid-range cards, you will already have a fairly good idea of performance.

It's rare that there any any really big surprises by launch day...
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I dunno, the last "big" launch I saw involved a card made with wood screws, that was pretty surprising :p

As for launch, the rumour is 12th Oct for launch, 25th for supply.

I've never ONCE had a go at Nvidia, or AMD, or Intel, or, ATi(when they were different) or anyone else for a paper launch, its one of those "have to find something to ***** about" things people do.

Information is better than no information, every time, no exceptions(ok one, if AFTER its happened you would prefer your friend didn't let on it was a dude, the ONLY exception).

Paper launch pretending to be a hard launch or giving inaccurate dates is annoying for sure, but even then you know what the card is about in general.

Personally I prefer a paper launch, cards can only be ready at X time, if they can tell you what the card is basically any time between now, and X, it doesn't change X.

But lets be honest, we all enjoy speculating, and when you're making educated guesses and talking about architecture and what could improve performance, its just interesting discussions anyway.

If all the companies paper launched too early, think of all the crazy rumours we'd miss out on ;)
 
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