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AMD To Launch RV770 On June 18th

wow if its close to 8800gt in sli and its on stock in crapsis it should be quite good card + all ati cards have great performance in source engine games. maybe ati will be back in the game. we still to see 4870 performance not speaking about later card editions 4870x2 / 4850x2. and good overclocking potential
 
psychas said:
wow if its close to 8800gt in sli and its on stock in crapsis it should be quite good card + all ati cards have great performance in source engine games. maybe ati will be back in the game. we still to see 4870 performance not speaking about later card editions 4870x2 / 4850x2. and good overclocking potential
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Also, Havok is friends with AMD now :).

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2219083/amd-playing-havok-game-physics

http://www.cinemablend.com/technolo...-Hands-For-More-Physics-Processing-10849.html
 
Lightnix said:
... Wow, that actually puts the 4850 scarily close to GTX280 territory.

(edit: y'know, being SLi GT's should perform very closely to the 9800 GX2, which in turn level-pegs with the GTX280 on average)
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Where is this coming from? Most things i have seen puts the 4850 at ~9800gtx level, and closer to a 8800gt in Crysis probably due to it's TWIMTBP nonsense.
 
Performance is looking stonking for the HD3850 but other than a bit from a computex review I've heard no mention of how hot these cards run ? That std cooler on the 3850 can be noisey when it's working hard and the 4870 retains the nasty square edged fan.

Also slightly worrying is multiple power connectors for the 4870, does this mean 4 on an X2 ??...Bit much power and heat arriving in the same place for My liking ;)
 
JAKUS said:
Also slightly worrying is multiple power connectors for the 4870, does this mean 4 on an X2 ??...Bit much power and heat arriving in the same place for My liking ;)
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No, not necessarily, IIRC the 4870 has 6-pin + 6-pin, those're two 75W connectors, add into the equation the 75W the PCI-E slot gives and we've got 225W of available power for the 4870, which should be more than overkill. Chances are we'll see 6-pin + 8-pin on the 4870 X2, which should give 75W and 125W respectively, and the 75W from the PCI-E slot, gives us 275W of total power available to the card.
 
Lightnix said:
No, not necessarily, IIRC the 4870 has 6-pin + 6-pin, those're two 75W connectors, add into the equation the 75W the PCI-E slot gives and we've got 225W of available power for the 4870, which should be more than overkill. Chances are we'll see 6-pin + 8-pin on the 4870 X2, which should give 75W and 125W respectively, and the 75W from the PCI-E slot, gives us 275W of total power available to the card.
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That only gives 135W per board !...Personally I can not see the 4870 needing the 2 x 6 pin connectors and I do follow Your logic ;)
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Wouldn't go by the POS crysis bench, i score 20 average at the same settings with a single GT, means nothing.
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But I thought the GT beats it like you said?

I'm confused now. Fact of the matter is the 4850 is looking to be the faster card in certain games and that's too much for fanboys like you to swallow :D
 
Tom|Nbk said:
But I thought the GT beats it like you said?

I'm confused now. Fact of the matter is the 4850 is looking to be the faster card in certain games and that's too much for fanboys like you to swallow :D
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No, no, no, benchmarks mean nothing, they can vary wildly and show nothing of pure processing power. :p
 
I will be very happy if it is this powerful and i get one but don't want to get my hopes up to much until it is released and people on here get theirs as i more likely get one on the fri/sat.
 
Lightnix said:
No, no, no, benchmarks mean nothing, they can vary wildly and show nothing of pure processing power. :p
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To be fair though the Crapsis benchmark runs the actual game, albeit a predifined sequence, but has the advantage of garanteeing the exact same real-world test for any card you run it on.

Its not like a silly mathematical procedure that doenst relate to framerates at all.... Its literally just observing the fps and calculating the average.
I'd say that means quite a lot tbh :D
 
omfg the answer as to why the 4800's were so underhyped at first has just hit me like a slippery fish.

'Trojan' - the 4870's code name. How could I be so blind?
 
JAKUS said:
Also slightly worrying is multiple power connectors for the 4870, ...
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It's not necessarily a bad thing. Just because it requires 2 x 6 pin connectors doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to draw all that power all the time; it'll only draw what it needs. IIRC the thinking behind the 2 power connectors is to give overclockers extra power if they need it.
 
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