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

[cosmogenesis]

295 GTX 1790 MB card is £365. The high end ATi offering is £190 or around £220 for a 4870 Crossfire offering which still does not offer as high a performance as NVidia do.

Do this new card from Ati will probably only match the 295 for performance and will cost a little less and offer you non existant DX11.

Its not as if ATi are already the fastest and are going to offer something mind blowing now is it. There again Nvidia in some benchmarks have some kind of software advantage such as Crysis Warhead so the card is a limiting factor when games companies write for the card. Crysis Warhead is so much faster on Nv cards.

 

[ray liotta]

I hope these prices aint silly, someone should let them know a credit crunch is on at moment, & very few people can afford £300+ on a graphic/s card. Obviously Nvidia won't care about this, but ATI will hopefully have more sense.

 

[SABRE70]

Long time no see a graphic card that blows away the last generation as was the nvidia 8800 launch and the long time away ati 9700. Will now be this time with ATI´s next gen?

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Maybe time to upgrade by 1st gen 4870 512, to grab a new one or maybe a nicely priced 4890 1Gb.

Will be movign to 2x24" ASAP and not sure how well teh 4870 will cope xD

 

[layte]

295 GTX 1790 MB card is £365. The high end ATi offering is £190 or around £220 for a 4870 Crossfire offering which still does not offer as high a performance as NVidia do.

Do this new card from Ati will probably only match the 295 for performance and will cost a little less and offer you non existant DX11.

Its not as if ATi are already the fastest and are going to offer something mind blowing now is it. There again Nvidia in some benchmarks have some kind of software advantage such as Crysis Warhead so the card is a limiting factor when games companies write for the card. Crysis Warhead is so much faster on Nv cards.

You can get xfire 4890's for around £260. That would offer better than 295 performance.

 

[cosmogenesis]

Depends on the game by the looks of it. Crysis looks like it has been developed to deliberately make your cards look rubbish. Knaff game anyway.

 

[Dark_Angel]

Depends on the game by the looks of it. Crysis looks like it has been developed to deliberately make your cards look rubbish. Knaff game anyway.

O.o

No crysis was made to last for ages, like far cry before it. No cards could run far cry at max on release...

 

[cosmogenesis]

Oh it will last for ages alright as a awesome benchmark but as a gaming experience its not really that good.

 

[Fenris]

Oh it will last for ages alright as a awesome benchmark but as a gaming experience its not really that good.

Well that's your opinion, I personaly think it kicks the ass of most FPS's and has them for breakfast.

 

[Talrinys]

Well that's your opinion, I personaly think it kicks the ass of most FPS's and has them for breakfast.

Completely agreed

 

[JBuk]

Oh it will last for ages alright as a awesome benchmark but as a gaming experience its not really that good.

yup, gfx wise it will be a benchmark for a long time but as far as gameplay goes it sucked imo, nowhere near as bad as farcry 2 though heheh

 

[kylew]

I hope these prices aint silly, someone should let them know a credit crunch is on at moment, & very few people can afford £300+ on a graphic/s card. Obviously Nvidia won't care about this, but ATI will hopefully have more sense.

I think you mean a recession. Credit crunch is just some stupid phrase they came up with to try and sensationalise the recession.

Credit crunch = increase in difficulty in getting loans and things on credit, not actually anything to do with a recession directly anyway.

/pedantic

 

[dubcat]

difficulty in getting loads?

/more pedantic than you

 

[Overslop]

I think Crysis was overrated but still a great game nonetheless.

Certainly not worth upgrading a system for this one game though.

 

[kylew]

difficulty in getting loads?

/more pedantic than you

Loads? I'm not in to receiving loads, maybe you are but I'm definitely not.

 

[fornowagain]

Borrowed from 'neliz', looks very similar to a 1GB 4770.

 

[Overslop]

Loads? I'm not in to receiving loads, maybe you are but I'm definitely not.

He was pointing out that you had misspelled "loans".

 

[TheRedZealot]

Looks a small card compared to current high end ATI offerings lets hope small card = small energy consumption and heat given out

 

[kylew]

He was pointing out that you had misspelled "loans".

I didn't even realise that. Ah well, I've changed it now

 

[fornowagain]

Looks a small card compared to current high end ATI offerings lets hope small card = small energy consumption and heat given out

No indication it is 'the' high end. Rumours put the 180mm^2 chip (Juniper?) we've seen maybe one step below, something like HD4870 performance. Iirc AMD said something about 4 DX11 GPUs this year. We'll see.