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

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psychas said:
thats huge is it 5870 or 5870x2 ? 8 pin and 6 pin by the looks of it so probably 5870x2
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That's the same as the leaked 5870 pics of the cooler from way back, single gpu cross brace says that's most likely the card.

Looks like a lot of heatsink under there, high loads I wonder?





 
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Weird how I (wrongly I might add) judge each card how it handles Crysis. I don't even play it anymore and my current card, the lowly 4870 1gig eats alive any other game out there. Perhaps time to let Crysis go and look at it again in a year or so.
 
Radeon HD 5870 Six with 6 display outputs, prices, performance

A few weeks ago there were reports of another member of AMD's graphics card family Evergreen. The card was code-named Trillian and would not use a special GPU but instead be a very special model. There were talks about three graphics processor but more likely it would be a card with extra display outputs. We have learned that the card will be called Radeon HD 5870 Six and support no less than six monitors, all with 3D functionality.

Many are perhaps wondering how AMD managed to fit no less than six display outputs on the back of the same graphics card. The answer is DisplayPort, or more precise Mini DisplayPort.

The interface, used quite frequently by Apple, supports resolutions up to 2560x1600 pixels through a connector that is only a fraction of the size of a regular DVI output.

DVI. vs. Mini DisplayPort

The 3D support across multiple monitors have been improved significantly with the coming Evergreen family and Radeon HD 5870 Six will take this to a whole new level. Theoretically you could connect six monitors to one and the same graphics card, with tailored resolutions. Something that should not only appeal to simulator fans but also regular gamers, or why not just use it run of the mill applications.

According to the info we received all cards of the Evergreen family will work a lot better with multiple monitors, something we're truly looking forward to seeing more of. AMD has talked about better support for multiple monitors for many years, and finally it's happening, and the exact shape and form will be revealed soon.

We can also confirm the price information on Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 5870, and they will be 299USD and 399USD respectively.

Even if we don't have any benchmarks to share, we have it on good authority that AMD's new Radeon HD 5800 series will bring between 25-40% better performance than current generation, depending on games and application.

The card will use 1GB GDDR5 memory but 2GB models are to be expected. We have learned a bit about the overclocking potential and it seems the 40nm technology has matured well. There are talks about overclocking to 1GHz GPU with the reference cooler, which is on par with the current flagship Radeon HD 4890 in terms of overclocking ability.

We hope to learn more about AMD's Evergreen family soon, very soon, and we will be covering the launch of the first DirectX 11 graphics cards. A launch where performance and features are almost equally important.
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http://www.nordichardware.com/news,9887.html
 
Yeah that looks like a really ugly 9800 GX2 or something (except obviously sans the penetrating fan). It does look really industrial, though. I hope the cooler just looks really big because they listened to people about making the cooling systems better on their cards as opposed to actually needing something far beefier-looking than the 2900 XT cooling unit.
 
Jokester said:
Those pics dont' inspire confidence, give the impression it's going to be a power guzzling vacuum cleaner of a card.
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You'll hurt my X1950XTX GDDR4 512MB card's feelings (oh and the second PSU just for the card)! Not that ATI have a reputation in power guzzling jet engines..
 
I seen pictures of a very similar looking ATI HSF a while back. That may well be the end design.

What time is the ATI show starting ?
 
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