AMD To Launch RV770 On June 18th

[J.D]

I agree with everything said but one cant see nvidia taking this for long somehow can you ? they will do something to match or beat these cards guaranteed.

Well I think with AMD/ATI's smoke and mirrors that they caught Nvidia with their pants at their ankles just like Nvidia did to ATI with the R600 and it's new architecture as Nvidia done things the old way and it paid off as we all know.

Now, the 9800GTX is going to be dropped in price by about half. 9800GTX+ coming out which is just an extra OC. New drivers to boost physic based games/software and the fact that two cards priced together at two thirds of the GTX280 are beating it sometimes on the weaker variant of ATI's new offerings. I really think Nvidia are panicking now. I don't think half of us expected this kind of performance from the 4870 lol never mind the 4850.

 

[Broken Hope]

4870 first look

 

[psychas]

4870 first look

looks nice but price will be defected as there really small number of them well we will just wait

 

[queamin]

ATI to partner with Blizzard

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8036&Itemid=1

Good for them about time

 

[Skyboat]

Definitely a start, let's hope it builds up steam to rival nVidia.

 

[queamin]

From fud as i ran my 320 in crysis and it wasn't good not sure what to make of those but looking at the scores 4870 is 27.90 and 4850 is 21.7 at the same res
added :-the Aa hit looks lower on the ati's cards now which is good

Radeon 4870 runs Crysis well
30+ FPS at 1920x1200
Crysis is a tough title, as it scales very poorly no matter what graphics card or cards you have; but at the same time you can only dream of 60 or 100 FPS at some of the higher resolutions.

Not even three GTX 280 cards are going to give you a cool performance number and we've learned that on a mainstream quad-core Radeon HD 4870 can score 30.5FPS at 1920x1200. Unfortunately, this is the resolution without FSAA and Aniso, and if you really want to push it with 8X FSAA you will score a quite acceptable 27.90 FPS. With this game this is considered a great score.

Radeon 4850 scores 25 FPS at 1920x1200 with no FSAA and Aniso, and 21.7 FPS with 1920x1200 with 8X FSAA on.

It is interesting to point out that with the current driver Geforce 9800GTX scores 18.6 FPS at 1920x1200 with no AA and 11.9 FPS at 1920x1200 8X FSAA.

 

[Broken Hope]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2fS9covXBs

Pretty amazing if that is indeed done in realtime.

 

[queamin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2fS9covXBs

Pretty amazing if that is indeed done in realtime.

i saw that last night i don't really know what to make of it,as i not sure how hard it is to do really

 

[Mr Paul]

From fud as i ran my 320 in crysis and it wasn't good not sure what to make of those but looking at the scores 4870 is 27.90 and 4850 is 21.7 at the same res
added :-the Aa hit looks lower on the ati's cards now which is good

The AA hit is very small

 

[queamin]

The AA hit is very small

Yes even on the 4850 the hit is very small, i want to wait for the 4870 but talking my self into a 4850 but will look at the 9800gtx aswell as they will drop a lot in price,but i am leaning towards a ati card

 

[Mr Paul]

Me getting the 1Gb 4870

 

[queamin]

I only run at 1360 x 768 and i not getting my 21" crt out

 

[Lightnix]

Well, if those scores are right, with 8xAA, the 4870 is indeed about 30% faster than the 4850 by the looks of it.

 

[Tejstar]

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The Tech Report - A first look at the Radeon HD 4850: Stone-cold GeForce killer?

TweakTown - Radeon HD 4850 In Crossfire at 4GHz

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Thats well ******* impressive that, only 3fps drop going from 0xAA to 8xAA

 

[Lightnix]

Hm, looks like their shader based AA paid off after all. All they had to do was increase the shader count by 2.5x.

 

[Azza]

Are you still on your laptop Loadsa? Not getting any of the new cards?

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Are you still on your laptop Loadsa? Not getting any of the new cards?

I don't have a laptop.

Im liking the sounds of the 4870.

 

[Azza]

I don't have a laptop.

Im liking the sounds of the 4870.

Ermmm ok


Fair enough.

 

[Mr Paul]

Hm, looks like their shader based AA paid off after all. All they had to do was increase the shader count by 2.5x.

Actually I recon they have added AA hardware to the ROPS