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ATI 5900 Series??

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http://www.guru3d.com/news/ati-radeon-5900-entry-spotted-/

looks like we might not be too far off from the 5900 series....

Hilbert Hagedoorn said:
ATI Radeon 5900 entry spotted ...
Guru3D.com ImageWell well well .. ATI is surely paving their way into DX11 land. Check out these entries we found in a recent driver. It's clear that ATI is preparing the Radeon 5900 series to match NVIDIA's upcoming Fermi release.

It 'could' be the 5870 X2 being positioned under this device ID, but in some drivers these entries already can be found:

"ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series" = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_689C
"ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series " = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_689D
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actually ive heard people saying that they may deviate from the X2 naming and the 5900 series will be dual-GPU variants like Hemlock.

Still just rumours though...
 
Freddie1980 said:
If their following the trends from the 4000 line a speed bump would in theory be a HD5890 like the HD4890 was a speed bump of the HD4870.
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Im not too sure on this tbh. The 4890 came about because the 4870 was a poor overclocker and there was potential in the chip. They basically reworked the RV770 architecture to allow for higher clock speeds. Whereas the 5870s are capable of 1000MHz on the core, substantially greater %age OC than the 4870s were able to achieve.

I could be wrong, but I have a feeling it will be something different and not just an OC 5870 core. Either way, I'm chuffed to bits with the performance of my 5870, there would be no need upgrading other than seeing benchmark numbers increase. I was playing Crysis on Very High, DX10, 1920x1080, 4xAA and not dropping below 32FPS~ lastnight!
 
elpedro said:
was playing Crysis on Very High, DX10, 1920x1080, 4xAA and not dropping below 32FPS~ lastnight!
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That doesnt impress me. Get that on my water cooled 4870x2. Hardly a big jump in performance and yes I do appreciate it's a single gpu but still not the jump in performance I was hoping for.

Glad you enjoy it though mate. ;)

RoEy
 
gurusan said:
actually ive heard people saying that they may deviate from the X2 naming and the 5900 series will be dual-GPU variants like Hemlock.

Still just rumours though...
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That makes the most sense, I seriously doubt we would see a 5900 mentioned yet if it was an incremental new product like the 4890 was
 
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RoEy said:
That doesnt impress me. Get that on my water cooled 4870x2. Hardly a big jump in performance and yes I do appreciate it's a single gpu but still not the jump in performance I was hoping for.

Glad you enjoy it though mate. ;)

RoEy
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Single gpu air cooled vs a dual gpu water cooled card pulling the same frame rates... and he probably has it on stock too. It does impress me thats for sure :)
 
RoEy said:
That doesnt impress me. Get that on my water cooled 4870x2. Hardly a big jump in performance and yes I do appreciate it's a single gpu but still not the jump in performance I was hoping for.

Glad you enjoy it though mate. ;)

RoEy
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That was the minimum FPS I saw on fraps, average would have been around 45FPS. I don't think the 4870X2's min framerate is as good tbh.

May flash to the ASUS bios and see if 1000MHz core speed makes much difference.
 
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I would hope that the dual card versions retain the X2 moniker - to me it would make the most sense since the card is going to be 2 first gen Cypress chips slapped on a single board and not a refresh part. AMD is bound to have a refresh ready to counter the Fermi launch and I'm not sure what they would call this if the 5900 ends up the dual card - 5970 wouldn't be apt because it won't give faster performance than the dual chip version...but who knows :)
 
This early on, I would suggest it's likely to be AMD/ATI playing the rename game, and likely to be the 5870X2 as such.

As far as I understood it (and I don't keep a tab on these things) The next iteration of graphics cards from them (the 6800 series if you like) is likely to be a different design rather than an improvement of the current process, so unless they slip in an updated process with TSMC before that, I'd suggest it's the X2.
 
Scougar said:
This early on, I would suggest it's likely to be AMD/ATI playing the rename game, and likely to be the 5870X2 as such.

As far as I understood it (and I don't keep a tab on these things) The next iteration of graphics cards from them (the 6800 series if you like) is likely to be a different design rather than an improvement of the current process, so unless they slip in an updated process with TSMC before that, I'd suggest it's the X2.
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They've already said it is a completely new architecture next september.

I think it's just a placeholder for the 5870X2 and 5850X2 (the latter being a silly guess on my part)
 
Its the X2's.

As we already wrote here, AMD's new Open CL driver brought some surprise with two strings mentioning HD 5900 series cards. We managed to find out that these will indeed be dual-GPU incarnation of Hemlock, but without the (in)famous X2 suffix, something that has been a tradition so far.

Of course, AMD is quite silent when asked about this topic, and nothing can be confirmed directly from AMD, but as far as we heard so far, there is a plan for a single card, the HD 59x0. We are still not sure why there are two device ID's in the AMD Open CL driver but AMD might have put it just in case if they decide to come up with another card as well, based on dual HD 5850 GPUs.

Hemlock, or the HD 5900 series, as it can be called from now on, is ATI's stand against Nvidia's Fermi which has yet to show its face and performance, as it certainly looks good on paper.
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http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15982/1/
 
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