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so when are these cards up for pre order? we talking soon'ish or later in the year ? ![Big Grin :D :D](/styles/default/xenforo/vbSmilies/Normal/biggrin.gif)
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Can someone ban kylew, because is getting very annoying.
so will we deffos get benchmarks tomorrow or what?
It will be so funny if tommorrow all we get is the specs and a few pics, with all the benchmarking and reviews and more important the prices still to come at a later date.
It will be so funny if tommorrow all we get is the specs and a few pics, with all the benchmarking and reviews and more important the prices still to come at a later date.
I'll be grabbing a 5870 if they're reasonably priced. My 260 is a workhorse but it's time to move on.
Thats how i feel with my 275, but when you see the Resident Evil 5 benchie and in particular the Batman Arkham demo, and just how amazingly perfect it runs with physx and 60fps graphics at high res, it makes you wonder whats the point in upgrading when lazy developers arent churning out stuff as high quality as this every time which would make sure no one needs an upgrade.
Currently AMD invites selected representatives of the press in order to present their newest generation of graphic cards, the HD 5850 and HD 5870 series, which will be released at the end of the month.
According to SemiAccurate the new graphic cards offer over 1600 stream processors. Trusted sources confirmed this feature and enabled us to have a closer look on the architecture of the cards.
Actually AMD quite simply doubled the number of SIMD units from 10 to 20. Still every SIMD unit contains 16 5D units and a Quad-TMU. Overall: 1600 stream processors and 80 TMUs.
* 40 nanometres
* 1600 SPs
* 80 TMUs
* 256 Bit GDDR5
* September 2009
Based on equal clock frequencies the new models have theoretically twice as much shader and texture performance as the present HD 4850 and HD 4870 series. Though increasing the power more than a 100 per cent will just be possible in a few cases, as the memory interface is still restricted up to 256 bits. Nevertheless AMD improved the performance quite a lot and developed a remarkable graphic card series, which outclasses his older brothers easily.
Why did they restrict the memory interface to 256 bits. Is it easier to do or does it keep the price down?