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AMD To Launch RV770 On June 18th

Also, the 8800M GTX didn't come out until a full year after the 8800 GTX release... By which time RV870 will probably have been released, or about to be released, being AMD seems to be going on 6-7 month release cycles after the 2900 XT.
 
matt100 said:
sooner or later there will be either a 260 or 280GTX "m" ie a mobile version, stick 2 of them on 2 pcbs and you're laughing. Just because it couldn't be done now, once they're well into mass production it WILL become an option.
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A mobile version of a desktop GPU is slower than its full version counterpart. Depending on how much slower, there could be little to NO gain in a GX2.

Besides, a 55nm version is at best going to reduce the heat problems (not solve them), even if they halfed the heat generated (which I doubt) doubling it is going to work out HOTTER than this thing alone and that is just daft.

280 Ultra with 256 SP I will bet my third xbox 360 on it (its in the red ring in the sky, or is it one of the circles of hell?).

Martyn
 
we'll see :)

lets be honest, it wouldn't be £800 just like the GTX280 won't hold £400 for very long if the ATIs are any cop, there will be a mobile GTX260 or 280, the 7950GX2 proved that 2 mobile chips could be very nearly as fast as 2 of the desktop parts etc.

No fanboying, not saying its a cert but I'm sure NV have spotted this 4870 X2 on the roadmap and will be responding accordingly.

I just get the distinct impression from the lack of leaked benchmarks and images unlike ATI that they don't seem to be very concerned about their upcoming releases.

I could be completely wrong and tbh if the 4850 appears to be able to keep pace with a 9800GTX there's every chance I'll wind up with a 4870 before long as that would give a small boost over the 8800GTX I have with very little extra cost, that would be lovely and I'll leave the NV parts to those with 1kw PSUs :p
 
If they translate that shader power into real-world performance I'll be impressed. The 3800-series had better FPU performance than the 8800-series, but that didn't let them win-out.

Should be good for GPGPU stuff though :) If only their API was as good as CUDA though...
 
matt100 said:
we'll see :)

lets be honest, it wouldn't be £800 just like the GTX280 won't hold £400 for very long if the ATIs are any cop, there will be a mobile GTX260 or 280, the 7950GX2 proved that 2 mobile chips could be very nearly as fast as 2 of the desktop parts etc.

No fanboying, not saying its a cert but I'm sure NV have spotted this 4870 X2 on the roadmap and will be responding accordingly.

I just get the distinct impression from the lack of leaked benchmarks and images unlike ATI that they don't seem to be very concerned about their upcoming releases.

I could be completely wrong and tbh if the 4850 appears to be able to keep pace with a 9800GTX there's every chance I'll wind up with a 4870 before long as that would give a small boost over the 8800GTX I have with very little extra cost, that would be lovely and I'll leave the NV parts to those with 1kw PSUs :p
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Totally agree. If ATI can pull it off then a 4870 for £200-£240 will be my choice. A GTX280 for £472 plus a psu upgrade for the performance it gives is just not economic sense. Look waht you could spend the £300+ saved on improving your system. Hell even buy two 4870's would be cheaper :eek:
 
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I was expecting the 4870 to dip under £200 pretty rapidly tbh.. plus there's a MUCH better selection of crossfire boards available which could actually help the old market share for ATI.. so many more people have 3850/3870/3870X2 crossfire than any form of sli atm.
 
matt100 said:
I was expecting the 4870 to dip under £200 pretty rapidly tbh.. plus there's a MUCH better selection of crossfire boards available which could actually help the old market share for ATI.. so many more people have 3850/3870/3870X2 crossfire than any form of sli atm.
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It certainly doesn't help that Intel isn't letting nVidia create chipsets for Nehalem, whereas AMD (well, ATi) and Intel are practically going hand in hand... I suppose nVidia's bed partner VIA could... Hahahaha.
 
I hope the 4550 is as good as people seem to be saying with these already released one's in Hong Kong. I was going to get a 8800 GT 512MB, but i think a few pennies more and perhaps a 4550 512 (1GB maybe?) would be a much better investment.

Cant remember the last time i got this interested about a Graphics card release :)
 
matt100 said:
we'll see :)

lets be honest, it wouldn't be £800 just like the GTX280 won't hold £400 for very long if the ATIs are any cop, there will be a mobile GTX260 or 280, the 7950GX2 proved that 2 mobile chips could be very nearly as fast as 2 of the desktop parts etc.

No fanboying, not saying its a cert but I'm sure NV have spotted this 4870 X2 on the roadmap and will be responding accordingly.

I just get the distinct impression from the lack of leaked benchmarks and images unlike ATI that they don't seem to be very concerned about their upcoming releases.

I could be completely wrong and tbh if the 4850 appears to be able to keep pace with a 9800GTX there's every chance I'll wind up with a 4870 before long as that would give a small boost over the 8800GTX I have with very little extra cost, that would be lovely and I'll leave the NV parts to those with 1kw PSUs :p
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I agree totally. If ATI can pull it off then a 4870 for £200-£240 will be my card of choice.
 
rojones said:
I hope the 4550 is as good as people seem to be saying with these already released one's in Hong Kong. I was going to get a 8800 GT 512MB, but i think a few pennies more and perhaps a 4550 512 (1GB maybe?) would be a much better investment.

Cant remember the last time i got this interested about a Graphics card release :)
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my understanding of this is pretty limited but isn't 1GB of memory pretty pointless with a 256mb buffer?
 
4550? Wouldn't that be a pretty low end card? :p

1GB of memory probably wouldn't help the 4850 out that much, it's going to be quite bandwidth limited as a result of its 256-bit memory controller/GDDR3 combination. The 4870 on the other hand may well benefit from 1GB of memory, as GDDR5 is supposed to be very fast compared to GDDR3 and 4 (3.92GHz for the 4870 IIRC), and will therefore have enough bandwidth the make use of that amount of memory.

As a quick comparison, the 2900 XT with its 512-bit memory controller and 1650MHz GDDR3 memory provides 105GB/s of memory bandwidth, the 4870 with its 256-bit controller and GDDR5 memory is closer to 125GB/s.
 
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