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

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gareth170 said:
does anyone think a 5850 will be faster than 2 4850?

if i heard right the 5800 series are 2x faster than the 4800 series?
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If those crysis benchmarks are correct, then a 5850 should be faster than a GTX295 too.

I can imagine that a 5870 will be around 20% faster than a 5850, and that 5870 is looking to be a fair amount more than 20% faster than a GTX295.

I still don't get these prices though, how could they sell a 5870 for $399 and the X2 for $599? :confused:
 
kylew said:
If those crysis benchmarks are correct, then a 5850 should be faster than a GTX295 too.

I can imagine that a 5870 will be around 20% faster than a 5850, and that 5870 is looking to be a fair amount more than 20% faster than a GTX295.

I still don't get these prices though, how could they sell a 5870 for $399 and the X2 for $599? :confused:
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5870X2 won't cost that much more to produce?
 
kylew said:
If those crysis benchmarks are correct, then a 5850 should be faster than a GTX295 too.

I can imagine that a 5870 will be around 20% faster than a 5850, and that 5870 is looking to be a fair amount more than 20% faster than a GTX295.

I still don't get these prices though, how could they sell a 5870 for $399 and the X2 for $599? :confused:
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They don't want to humiliate Nvidia even more so they have to price their top card the same as Nvidias top card. ;)
 
So what is the deal with display port? will adapters be available for converting this output to DVI?

If I am going to consider buying more monitors then I would like to use my existing one...
 
kylew said:
I still don't get these prices though, how could they sell a 5870 for $399 and the X2 for $599? :confused:
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The X2 model will be released a couple months after the 5870, by which time the 5870 won't be $399 any more and will probably have dropped somewhere into the the $325-350 price range. Meaning that while the X2 will still possibly be cheaper than crossfiring 2 5870s it won't be $200 cheaper.

The other possibility of course is that the X2 model will be made from 2 5850 gpus rather than the 5870s, however AMD haven't yet used a cut down version of their cards to create the X2 model (unlike nVidia), which makes this scenario unlikely.
 
Azza said:
They don't want to humiliate Nvidia even more so they have to price their top card the same as Nvidias top card. ;)
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Well yeah, except it goes against their claims of not making any cards that sell above $599 and since that claim, their non-X2 cards have been around half the price of their X2 cards.
 
Squakingcow said:
The X2 model will be released a couple months after the 5870, by which time the 5870 won't be $399 any more and will probably have dropped somewhere into the the $325-350 price range. Meaning that while the X2 will still possibly be cheaper than crossfiring 2 5870s it won't be $200 cheaper.

The other possibility of course is that the X2 model will be made from 2 5850 gpus rather than the 5870s, however AMD haven't yet used a cut down version of their cards to create the X2 model (unlike nVidia), which makes this scenario unlikely.
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Their X2s are supposed to be coming a few weeks later, I can't see them dropping the 5870 prices $75-100 in such a short space.
 
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