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

TAC4U · 15 Aug 2009 at 18:27

woody79 said:
are there any dx11 games out in september????

No, what with Win7 being released late October (which is presumably when we'll see the DX11 update for Vista).

Sayso · 15 Aug 2009 at 18:28

Will wait until the X2 comes out, with a decent watercooling block...xmas present i reckon

JediFragger · 15 Aug 2009 at 18:31

Sayso said:
Will wait until the X2 comes out, with a decent watercooling block...xmas present i reckon

Sounds good, thanks mate

nib95 · 15 Aug 2009 at 18:36

Man, I need to see some leaked screens of this baby. My GTX 275 is barely 3 days old. That said, I do kinda want it to play Batman AA. I wonder if I should just keep it and sell it on for a small loss later, or return it back to OcUK and wait it out.

Hmmm...decisions decisions...

Tom|Nbk · 15 Aug 2009 at 18:36

LoadsaMoney said:
I rekon the launch date for the cards will be sometime in October, around the time of windows 7 release

New DX11 gpu with the new OS sounds nice

Nelly · 15 Aug 2009 at 18:40

Nice timing to sell my GTX295 on a famous auction site a few days ago while price is good, will use a really low rating/cheap card for a few weeks no big deal.

/Grumpy mode on....

Bet their all reference cooler releases

*Prays for some nice cooling on the new releases*

Perfect_Chaos · 15 Aug 2009 at 18:52

Maybe the accelero coolers for 4870's will fit on these new cards.

Anybody think my psu might be enough for 2? apparently the new ones use hardly any more power.. unless its wise to wait for the x2 but months later.

CaptainRAVE · 15 Aug 2009 at 19:04

Tom|Nbk said:
New DX11 gpu with the new OS sounds nice

mmm, indeed. Should hopefully get them at the same time!

ray liotta · 15 Aug 2009 at 19:08

Very good news, and surprising. Looks like those rumours of a Septemeber release was correct, and so many doubted them

Probably put off getting my rig till end of October, hopefully then any problems sorted out and prices don't kill me.

Hopefully Overclockers get a prebuilt system with a Core I7 with one of these new Gpu's and is nicely priced around £1000-£1100

lukext · 15 Aug 2009 at 19:15

Perfect timing for my new build before going back to uni

LeJosh · 15 Aug 2009 at 19:15

LoadsaMoney said:
They havn't announced a launch date yet.

10th of september? :confused:

"The word is finally out. AMD will launch it’s much anticipated next generation graphics processors code name “Evergreen” on September 10th; ahead of Windows 7’s launch in late October.."

I didn't mean in shops but they wouldn't be showcasing it either if it had problems with the 40nm fabrication were significant.

Xappy · 15 Aug 2009 at 19:31

Does anyone know how much these cards are likely to cost? I'm after a 4890 at the moment but if there's a (for example) 5890 that's a similar price next month then I'll be waiting for that. If I'm not going to be able to get a similar dx11 card without spending £100 more then I'll just get a 4890 and upgrade in a year or so.

CaptainRAVE · 15 Aug 2009 at 19:41

Xappy said:
Does anyone know how much these cards are likely to cost? I'm after a 4890 at the moment but if there's a (for example) 5890 that's a similar price next month then I'll be waiting for that. If I'm not going to be able to get a similar dx11 card without spending £100 more then I'll just get a 4890 and upgrade in a year or so.

5890 wont follow til a few months after. Same with the X2.

PermaBanned · 15 Aug 2009 at 19:47

I think ATI are going to take the lead on the next 'round'. I don't even think nVidias 300s are going to be 40nm...

HangTime · 15 Aug 2009 at 19:59

The prior generation of ATI cards was such high performance and so cheap that they forced Nvidia to hastily put together competitive video cards.

Seems to be written from a slightly biased viewpoint, don't forget that the GTX2x0 series launched before the HD48x0 series. The only thing Nvidia did really from a 'haste' perspective was to cut prices, their product was already out there.

layte · 15 Aug 2009 at 20:27

HangTime said:
Seems to be written from a slightly biased viewpoint, don't forget that the GTX2x0 series launched before the HD48x0 series. The only thing Nvidia did really from a 'haste' perspective was to cut prices, their product was already out there.

Well they did rush out the 260-216 when it was apparent that the 1GB 4870 was more than a match for the original.

Helios1234 · 15 Aug 2009 at 20:35

layte said:
Well they did rush out the 260-216 when it was apparent that the 1GB 4870 was more than a match for the original.

Not really, the GTX260 and the 512mb 4870 were pretty much on par apart from cost and both decided to up the game to out perform each other. So we ended up with the 260-216 and the 1gb 4870 in a the same time frame.

Although ATI were probably going to release a 1gb version regardless and Nvidia had to up the specs to compete.

layte · 15 Aug 2009 at 20:40

Helios1234 said:
Not really, the GTX260 and the 512mb 4870 were pretty much on par apart from cost and both decided to up the game to out perform each other. So we ended up with the 260-216 and the 1gb 4870 in a the same time frame.

Although ATI were probably going to release a 1gb version regardless and Nvidia had to up the specs to compete.

I would guarantee that without the 4870 we would not have seen the 216 shader part.

Geckovich · 15 Aug 2009 at 20:40

ViRuS2k said:
Both my 4890s are going back to OCUK for full refunds.

On what grounds? :confused:

Perfect_Chaos · 15 Aug 2009 at 21:00

Anybody reckon just one would be a significant upgrade from 2 8800 GT's?

i suppose benchmarks should be due any time now