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

[arc@css]

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

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

Kind of my feelings too. Some games like this or Doom3 (when it first came out - no one or very few could run it at full pelt) tend to be more technical achievements for current / future projects than game achievements for that particular one.

 

[reflux]

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

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Still using the 3870 stock cooler it seems. Cheers for the pics anyway. Looks a pretty solid card.

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

The PCB is black, which means unless that's temporary, this is definitely a high end offering. Who can say at this point though; there's no pressure on AMD to launch an all-conquering behemoth so I wouldn't be surprised if they launch a lesser product first as you say.

 

[fornowagain]

You can't really draw conclusions from an ES, the pcb colour and cooler may change.

Yeah, the card maybe the smaller Juniper 180mm^2 chip RV840?, and be launched first with its bigger brother(s) later.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-dx11-rv8xx-card-exposed/7154.html?doc=7154

There is a DX11 gaming system lurking deep in Computex but we managed to hunt it down as usual. We can't provide you a close up right now but judging from the looks of it, the card is about 8.5" long, dual slot and requires a 6-pin power. This card probably belongs to the mainstream segment (RV840), part of the AMD's DX11 Evergreen family. The silicon is at A10 revision right now and we can expect another spin before it enters mass production. Targeted launch of the first DX11 part is in September before the Windows 7 hits the market on October 22nd. Some benchmarks later...

According to Charlie

So, what are those code names? They are Cypress and Juniper. Cypress is the big chip, and Juniper is the mid-range part. ATI strongly hinted at the conference that the wafer was a Cypress, but I don't recall if a chip code name was explicitly stated. It it was Cypress, die size estimates in the 180mm^2 range should make Nvidia very nervous. If the wafer was a Juniper, Nvidia should be far more nervous.

There is talk of a Redwood gpu and another called Cypress. As a Redwood is a big Cypress, maybe the flagship X2 variant is made from 2x Redwood. Lol, or is it 2x Cypress? There is talk of a 300mm^2 40nm chip and pics of big cooler.

 

[Fenris]

Yeah, the card maybe the smaller Juniper 180mm^2 chip RV840?, and be launched first with its bigger brother(s) later.


There is talk of a Redwood gpu and another called Cypress. As a Redwood is a Cypress, maybe the flagship X2 variant is made from 2x Redwood. Or is it 2x Cypress?

TOO MANY CODE NAMES ARGHGHGFARGLBLARGLBA

 

[D D Danneh]

TOO MANY CODE NAMES ARGHGHGFARGLBLARGLBA

Hey guys I FLAAHGGBGBHGLLGLGLGLGLG

 

[fornowagain]

I know I like the old numbers, you knew where you were. And it doesn't end there's a Cedar and Hemlock...

 

[psychas]

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

i guess this its 5850 ? as it only need or one 6 pin ?

 

[Nelly]

I hope Sapphire dont fanny about & just release a Vapor-X cooler edition straight away, they would sell like hotdogs.

If it is a paper launch by AMD/ATI, how long did they take to do a hard launch last time they did that? Not something I checked up on.

 

[Monkeynut]

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

i guess this its 5850 ? as it only need or one 6 pin ?

Possibly. This was already posted above.

I'm interested in a 5670 to replace my 3870.

 

[TheMorningStar]

so who is selling me their 4870x2s for £50

heh

if these vards are nice and short i can keep the section of hdd racking i thought i would loose with crossfire

 

[LoadsaMoney]

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.

FANBOY ALERT!!!

 

[Tom|Nbk]

Welcome back anyway Loadsa

 

[TheRealDeal]

FANBOY ALERT!!!

Is this the same crysis warhead game that nv cards seem to rule at according to cosmogenesis.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/gtx285sli-hd4890cf_9.html#sect2

Its a little old but not to many 4890 crossfire v gtx295 reviews around the 4890 even does well comparing with gtx285 sli in warhead.

 

[ray liotta]

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

You sound a lot of fun

 

[Monkeynut]

You sound a lot of fun

 

[Rezident]

Lets hope for a new reference cooling solution than the one they've been using on the 29xx/38xx/48xx

Hear hear, like the Vapor X ones - I'm very impressed with them.

 

[Rezident]

UNLESS YOU'RE PLAYING ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTIONS WHY WOULD YOU NEED NEW CARDS?


What games are over-taxing current cards at lower resolutions like 1920x1080?

Pong, Digger, Pac-Man, not to mention ARMA 2, Warhead and Stalker:CS, even that old 2007 game - the one with the magic suit and jungles and beaches and aliens and things, you know the one

 

[Mr.Nick]

I need prices

 

[Tom|Nbk]

AMD Demo DiRT 2 DX11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZAwniLT22U

 

[HighlandeR]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZAwniLT22U

In game or just the pre rendererd rolling stuff