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

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Why would they be on the site tomorrow?

They aren't released until the 23rd, I assume based on US time too so the NDA will be lifted at around 6-9am GMT Wedensday?
 
I'm suprised there is only 60 available, I think if that is the case they could get fairly expensive. I'm not bothered though, more interested in a cpu upgrade but I really just cant wait for the reviews to start flowing
Bearing in mind that 'if' and thats a big if, it outperforms the 295 then it would be the performance king and could 'justifiably' carry a serious price
 
Sorry if someone else has already brought this up, but 96 pages is a bit much for me.

Anyway, I know the benchmark crowd will probably be salivating at this, but personally I can't see the point.

We're a while off having any true DX11 titles and with nearly every major release at the moment being a console port, the current hardware is hardly being pushed to its limits.

I can see this going exactly the same way as the 8 series did; great cards, but ended up not being up to the job a lot of gamers brought them for, namely Crysis.

Over the next year we will continue to see multi-platform dominate the PC release schedule, the 5000 series will be complete overkill for these games, then the first big DX11 game will hit and probably bring these cards to their knees.

So, I'll wait, at least until Nvidia shows its hand; even then I think I'll still hold off for the first true DX11 title to arrive and actually give myself a real reason for owning a DX11 capable card.
 
Dark Days said:
I can see this going exactly the same way as the 8 series did; great cards, but ended up not being up to the job a lot of gamers brought them for, namely Crysis.
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Could this possibly include the 8800GTX which is still a top notch card even today...?

There are still people with 8800GT/S/X's that have held out a generation 'cos they are still capable. Crysis is a poor example, it's a well known fact it needed and received major patching, Crysis Warhead was a further improvement.
 
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Btw, saw this.
AMD set to struggle to meet demand for ATI Radeon HD 5800 series

First serving not enough

***** has sampled a selection of sauces, and they're telling tales about how AMD won't be able to keep up with initial orders for its upcoming Radeon graphics cards.

Garnished with reports of a demand that's been unprecedented in recent years, the Radeon menu looks likely to be a three course serving of sweet and sour for AMD.

As an appealing appetiser, ***** has established that advance orders for AMD's upcoming ATI Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5850 haven't just simmered, the dish has boiled over, which is more than some quarters of AMD seem to have hoped, let alone planned for.

Further helpings of sauce reveal that AMD AIB partners in EMEA, have (unbeknownst to each of their competitors) been thrilled by the size of their own portion of the pre-order pie. ***** was served up such sizzling quotes as "we can't believe the [high level of] demand", "I've never seen this in years" and "we could sell everything we can get our hands on".

And our inspection of the steamy kitchen even revealed one AMD chef, blinking in incredulity at their cookie of good fortune, who exclaimed "it's ********* amazing!"

Not wanting to waste a good metaphor, it looks like the Chez Radeon is fully booked for weeks to come. However, there still remains the small matter of serving up the dishes...
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Dark Days said:
Sorry if someone else has already brought this up, but 96 pages is a bit much for me.

Anyway, I know the benchmark crowd will probably be salivating at this, but personally I can't see the point.

We're a while off having any true DX11 titles and with nearly every major release at the moment being a console port, the current hardware is hardly being pushed to its limits.

I can see this going exactly the same way as the 8 series did; great cards, but ended up not being up to the job a lot of gamers brought them for, namely Crysis.

Over the next year we will continue to see multi-platform dominate the PC release schedule, the 5000 series will be complete overkill for these games, then the first big DX11 game will hit and probably bring these cards to their knees.

So, I'll wait, at least until Nvidia shows its hand; even then I think I'll still hold off for the first true DX11 title to arrive and actually give myself a real reason for owning a DX11 capable card.
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I definitely agree with you on this. Obviously people only have current titles to compare with older cards but surely the whole point of these cards performance comes from dx11 improves like tesselation and such. I just hope to god dx11 is nothing like the joke dx10 was - lots of promise and nothing in the end
 
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I don't blame you. Too tired to trawl through the thread again :)
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I usually find them, like you say old and tired.




End user > http://www.overclock.net/ati/578416-ati-hd5870-1gb-benchmarks.html

These are ran on stock clocks for the HD5870 which are 850mhz gpu and 1200mhz mem. Cpu at the time of benching was 4.1ghz and ram was 6GB with 8-8-8-24 timings runing at 1600mhz
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hd5870crysisrun.jpg

hd58703dmark06run.jpg
 
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