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

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shouldnt we have word by now of official pricing, or do we still have to wait until tomorrow. im not going to get too excited to find the 5870 is something like £370 or something.
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Tomorrow.

these Radeon cards also look a bit cheap and nasty to me....too blingy , just a personal thing
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They'll look a lot better when I put some spangly EK blocks on them :-)
 
AMD need to price low and take the crown they deserve .......... Once they have the crown they will get greedy OC and squeeze us for all our pennies.
 
magicroundabout said:
no one else has produced a DX11 card or are going to from the sounds coming from the Nvidia camp.

And the problems reported by Nvidia regarding Yields they wont get them sorted this side of xmas surely?

as for being faster. we'll soon see tomorrow. ;)
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so this is now not so much about how good the 58XX is, but more about srquealing in glee at Nvidias alledged problems? whatever floats your boat mate.
 
as said many times, NVIDIA are waiting for these cards to come out, before they modify theirs and release them at a premium price............

so whose the looser here ?................us lot, because the GTX 300 will cost a fortune and it definitely wont drop in price by next May...... because the GTX 295 hasn't dropped either...........the GTX 300 will only drop in price when the GTX 350 comes out in a years time..

prices are holding steady, with only maybe a 40 quid cut...but you definitely wont see the GTX 300 dropping price by 150 quid. ....it'll be maybe 360 quid in november and about 310 or 320 by next may..........well what!
 
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mmj_uk said:
4850 and 4870 were slower and less feature packed than their NVidia counterparts, if they'd charged the same as or more than NVidia nobody would have bought them.
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Feature packed? Oh I hope you aren't thinking of PhysX...

Seriously, the original GTX260 that was released was most definitely not faster than the equivalent 4870 (1GB).

It was nVidia who had to adjust their prices or no one would have bought their cards except for the diehards who scream premium and quality at anyone who hints at buying an alternative to nVidia.

Also, technically speaking, their nVidia counter parts were G92 to based cards, the 4870 was priced to compete with the 9800GTX, so more features? LOL and faster too? Who are you trying to deceive?
 
well how about £230 information from a reliable and high up the chain source who i can not name i think that was 5850 price and if my memory is right 290 for 5870
 
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4850 and 4870 were slower and less feature packed than their NVidia counterparts, if they'd charged the same as or more than NVidia nobody would have bought them.
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What? 4850, 4870 were much better than the 9600gt, 9800gtx out at the time.

I hope you're not comparing the 260/280's - they released AFTER the 48xx series. So what I said is true - ATI relased better cards for less than the CURRENT Nvidia offerings.

well how about £230 information from a reliable and high up the chain source
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£230 for what? A chocolate button?
 
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HeX said:
From what i've heard they will be selling for around £280 + vat, so ~£320, for the 5870 that is.
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People are really just pulling numbers out of various orifices now.

Now it's £320? Considering you can get 295s for less than £300 now, who's gonna really be thrilled to get a 5870, DX11 aside for £320?

There are no solid prices now, just rumours, for all we know AMD themselves are spreading the highly priced rumour themselves, just as they did with the 4800s and the 480SPs they were supposed to have.

We've seen slides that state the 5870 to be competitive against the 285.

When the 4870 came out, that was pitted against the 9800GTX in terms of, it was priced at the same level.
 
sxndy said:
I heard a mouse squeak in the dx11 pic

look the same to me too, emperors new clothes comes to mind
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You have a point, particularly in that example. That pic was probably used to try to show that there isn't very much difference between 10 and 11. It's only a fraction of the image, so you can't really come to any conclusions from 1 biased image.

Textures make the biggest difference. You can have a low poly object but very high res texture, and will look fantastic.
 
amigafan2003 said:
What? 4850, 4870 were much better than the 9600gt, 9800gtx out at the time.

I hope you're not comparing the 260/280's - they released AFTER the 48xx series. So what I said is true - ATI relased better cards for less than the CURRENT Nvidia offerings.
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Indeed, which is why Nvidia updated the 260 with the 216 variant, to go up against the 4870..
 
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