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

[Wakinglimb]

Always find it amusing when people say stuff like that, how can you say it's a long card when you have nothing else in the picture to compare the scale?

This is the 5870 next to a 4890, hardly much longer at all.

Because the PCI-E interface and bracket at the back are fixed lengths.

 

[Lightnix]

Yeah but every time anyone sees a 10+" card they say 'omg that's so long' and totally forget more or less every high-end card since late 2006 has been that long. It's kind of hilarious, actually. That said, it does look like there's a lot of space on the 5870's PCB. I wonder why.

 

[SfnX]

gonna buy a 5870, gotta q6600 then buy the corsair h50 cooler, overclock that baby!
il be giving benchies and vids whne i get it

 

[metamorphpwner]

What sort of minimum CPU speeds are we looking at with the 5870? I'm guessing a Q6600 at stock speeds will be bottlenecking these cards.

 

[mrk]

3GHz quad as usual I'd say.

 

[metamorphpwner]

currently running a 9800GTX+ which i think is beaten by the 4850, so the 5850/70 should be a huge difference. just need better cooling for my CPU as my zalman broke and i'm back to stock clocks with the intel cooler

 

[SfnX]

the only thing im concerned about is the big cooler, why does it need a cooler that big unless it really heats up, even has a back plate. also i guess there wont be any 3rd party coolers since the stock 1 beats them all...or should

 

[Owenb]

Seems like a good chip but nothing that should overly worry the green camp.

 

[layte]

Seems like a good chip but nothing that should overly worry the green camp.

Really?

Looks to me like ATI are going to have price, performance and feature set (hi2uDX11) in the bag until early next year. I would be very worried if I was NV.

 

[SfnX]

well id say when nvidia come around theyll have make something thatl shake up the comp. dont get my wrong i love ati but...waw theyl have somethin to worry about when nvidia bring in the new firepower

 

[Jezcentral]

well id say when nvidia come around theyll have make something thatl shake up the comp. dont get my wrong i love ati but...waw theyl have somethin to worry about when nvidia bring in the new firepower

*Dubiously* I hope that's true. The more competition in the market, the better.

 

[RizlaKing]

Trouble for nvidia is if the rumours are true and were not going to see their cards till march time next year they might beat the 5870 just in time for the refresh from ati. Competition is good and we consumers need it but this time i don't think there will be as much competition as there was with the 4xxx and the gtx2xx series so we have to hope ati won't turn nvidia and over price.

 

[gurusan]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1533507/amd-introduces-radeon-gpus

AMD HAS ANNOUNCED a new series of ATI Radeon HD 5700 GPUs.
The Juniper XT/LE series Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 will be in the shops in October and the R800 5870 X2 will follow in November.
These will follow the launch of ATI Radeon HD 5850 and 5870 GPUs on 22nd September, according to Digitimes.
AMD has 40nm Cypress GPUs in its high end offerings. The Juniper LE Radeon HD 5750 is codenamed Corvette and the Juniper XT Radeon HD 5770 is codenamed Countach.
Both are loaded with 1GB GDDR5 video memory and a 128-bit memory interface and will possess most features of Cypress cards including the 40nm GPU and multi-monitor Eyefinity technology. The release of these GPUs does mean that the ATI Stream UVD 2.0 technology could become a little bit more 'affordable', depending upon how one defines that.
In addition to its Radeon HD 5000 series desktop graphics cards, AMD will also introduce ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series graphics for notebooks.
Just like with its desktop cards, AMD will ship the Mobility Radeon HD 5800 for the high-end segment, HD 5700 for the performance segment, HD 5600 for the mainstream and HD 5400 for entry-level notebooks.
Let's wait to see if AMD introduces DirectX 11 based graphics cards by the end of this month or next month when Windows 7 is expected to launch.
The mobile cards are expected to be very similar to the desktop versions. All of the HD 5800 series will likely support CrossFireX.
The HD 5870, 5850 and 5830 series will be the top end with 1,600 shader units, or almost double what the current top end HD 4000 series have. The HD 5770, 5750 and 5730 series will be the performance range, the HD 5650 and 5600 series will be the mainstream parts, and the HD 5470, 5450 and 5430 series will be for the entry level market.
AMD has been a bit busy lately working out how to market its "Vision" branding that will help make clear the separations between different levels of AMD-based notebooks. µ

 

[SfnX]

nice find, thanks for infoz!

 

[AWBbox]

Nuuuuu!

I can't wait till November for the 5870x2, I was rooting on it being released in October. That's going to be a real nightmare for my build!

 

[metamorphpwner]

damn, i bet they come at the end of november, my birthdays at the begining

 

[CK61938]

Ah nice one...November sounds like a good time for the 5870X2 to come out...Hopefully I can wait until Jan/Feb 2010 to purchase one of those bad boys

 

[hohum]

Always find it amusing when people say stuff like that, how can you say it's a long card when you have nothing else in the picture to compare the scale?

This is the 5870 next to a 4890, hardly much longer at all.

Well I'm glad you find it so amusing. Firstly you can base the length on where the PCI-e connector ends, and secondly that pic Virus2k posted (and the one I was commenting on) shows a card that is noticeably longer than the one in the image you posted.

 

[gurusan]

stop quoting pictures people, jesus

 

[Final8y]

Well at least ATI have got there marketing working well this time.