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ATI 5970 Engineering Sample

I just had a thought... These specs matches the 5850? Wouldn't this sample be a 5950 then?
... What's the true 5970 like then O_o?
 
tmaxxthomson said:
awesome =] that looks good news! hope they release a high clocked one!! they defo shud :S if the 5870 is good for going past 1000 on the core then the 5970 should be at least 850mhz for the top end part! i remember the rumours saying the dual GPU high end model would be clocked 50MHz higher than the 5870 xD
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You can always overclock the 5970, but I have been lead to believe that the reason it is underclocked per core (compared to the 5870 counterpart) was because of heat issues. Of course if you got some nifty watercooling that would be a different matter. Pic very much related :D

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AWBbox said:
You can always overclock the 5970, but I have been lead to believe that the reason it is underclocked per core (compared to the 5870 counterpart) was because of heat issues. Of course if you got some nifty watercooling that would be a different matter. Pic very much related :D

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omg, YUM!!! i want an x2 with one of those beautys :P thts even nicer than the 4870x2 copper EK water block i have "lying about" haha
 
Okay I have to ask... why do they leave the bottem of the GPU open to the air?

Surely that makes it open to breaking off all those tiny components.

Surely that also does not help heat transfer as sticking some metal on a thermal pad is likely to be better akin to the EVGA backplate?
 
Flanno said:
So is quad fire still scaling badly ? I wonder will 2 of these 5890's be slower than say a trifire setup with 1 5890, and 1 5870 ?

Also, will there be any advantage to 2gb cards (upcoming 2gb 5870 or 5890) in gaming, or will that only be useful for multi monitor setups ?
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Won't be able to use them with the 5870's id have thought, as the x2's are now the 5900 series.
 
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LoadsaMoney said:
Won't be able to use them with the 5870's id have thought, as only the same series cards can be Xfired, the x2's are now 5900 series cards, so won't be able to be used with the 58 series.
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its only a name. i think they will trifire fine!! as they both contain the same base components. as far as i know you could crossfire any 2 cards from the 5000 series but the top end card would drop to the specs of the low end card? am i right? possibly not. haha
 
Well if that's what the final card will be like, that's decided it for me, I'll go with 5870 crossfire, never liked watercooling, so 2x 5870s will be faster in that case!
 
My guess on the 5900 series is gonna be.

5950 will be what we see in the op and possibly volt limited so it can't reach what i have below.

5970 will come with either same clocks as the 5870 or a little higher with 4gb memory.
 
icehot666 said:
Well if that's what the final card will be like, that's decided it for me, I'll go with 5870 crossfire, never liked watercooling, so 2x 5870s will be faster in that case!
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Agreed, wish they published the specs much sooner so I could be playing with the 5870s already.
 
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