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Discussion On The ATI Radeon 5*** Series Before They Have Been Released Thread

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Don't forget about the obvious very early drivers.

As I alluded to in the other thread, it seems to be as big a jump over the 295, as the 280 was over the 9800GX2.
 
Personally, I don't get particularly excited about early benchmarks since they will all become irrelevant once review websites like Anandtech, Bit-Tech, Firing Squad, The Tech Report etc start publishing their in-depth reviews of these graphics cards.

Edit: That's not to say I'm not excited about ATI's new graphics cards because I am getting excited. (I thought I would add that part since otherwise I'm sure I sound like a miserable old git) :p:D
 
Fire Wizard said:
Personally, I don't get particularly excited about early benchmarks since they will all become irrelevant once review websites like Anandtech, Bit-Tech, Firing Squad, The Tech Report etc start publishing their in-depth reviews of these graphics cards.
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I just get excited about new products and tech.


DX11 & Eyefinity :D
 
Rroff said:
Would be more interesting to see 285 tri-SLI scores (rather than the quad SLI 295) up against the 5870 cf as that would be similiar price with the current drop in 285 prices.
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Really? As in against two 5870s?

The cheapest 285 I can see on here is £199, the 5870 would have to be pushing £300 for them to be in the band(let alone needing a board with the tri SLI and a powerful enough PSU). I got crucified on here earlier for pushing for a £249 mark 5870 let alone £299 :D
 
Broken Hope said:
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I know this is reading an awful lot into a wooly graph but.

We know cypress is 5870 and 5850. The above graph shows it around $300 mark so logically the 5870 is above that and the 5850 below that.

Looking at the $400 line the top of cypress seems quite a way off it so hopeful the rumours about the 5870 costing $400 are out and it will be more like $325 :D
 
I don't think those prices are correct. Reading from the middle of the images, Hemlock (X2's) will be $450, and Cypress will be $300. X2 versions are usually around about double the price of their single GPU counterparts, so I can't see those prices being correct.

I'm going to guess $350 for the 5870.
 
If the 5870 is equal to Nvidias GTX295 would it saturate a single 16 PCI-E lane? Just I'm about to upgrade (Motherboard/CPU/Memory) and still not decided which way to go X58 or P55 I will only be using one card so was leaning towards the P55, but reading about the new ATI cards has got me confused.............yet again :confused:
 
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