Lots of sneaky information coming on the Internet about this. Just wondered if anybody else is excited?

It's faster than the 4870X2

Benchmarks: http://www.czechgamer.com/novinky/5055/ ... venku.html
Pictures: http://kikurtnagydijo.posterous.com/hd5 ... etszedve-0

I can't read Czechoslovakian.

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate ... ry_state0=

Or Hungarian.

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate ... ry_state0=


The translations are far from brilliant however:

there's not a lot wrong with that sentence, the translation is perfectly fine

Protip: you don't need to read the article to make sense of it.

Signing the NDA does not prevent them from sharing it?

Translation sure is funny though

so you can clearly make perfect sense of the translation....

Sure, you can make sense of it, but that does not mean the translation is fine.


Anyway, we deviate. Any ideas when this card is due out, Aaron?

The website predicts some time later this month.

HD 5870: 40nm, ~2.1B transistors, ~333mm², 320 SP (1600 ALU), 80 TMU, 32 ROPs, 850 MHz, 2,7 TFlops, 2 GB GDDR5 1200 MHz, ~150 GB/s, Idle: 26 watts, Peak: 190 watts, Price: $399, September 23.

HD 5850: 288 SP (1440 ALU), 72 TMUs, 32 ROPs, ~700 MHz, 2,0 TFlops, 1 GB GDDR5 ~1000 MHz, ~128 GB/s, Price: < $300, September 23.

Heh, I'm not excited cos it will mean I'm even more out of date

Poor me, I'm still on 3670

looks good but i probably wont be updating my graphics for another year or so. i'll get the 8870

i cant upgrade my gpu because 4850 and 9800gt are the biggest graphics cards my psu can handle xD

New graphics cards have better performance per watt, so a new series graphics card would be fine.

well i would but i dont need it......plus i'd probably have to also invest in water cooling at that point

New graphics cards aren't hotter than older ones, if they draw the same power, they produce the same heat.

By the way, the 5870X2 has a projected TDP of 376W making it the highest power draw of any graphics card in existence.

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15499/1/

Only a tiny bit more than the 2870X2 though, isn't it?

Yeah, the 4870X2 is 350W.

Nvidia's new one will apparently eat the 5870:
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15535/1/

I thought nVid had been screwing up lately?

azcn aren't you just a laptop nab atm

XD

So why would this interest you

Also I love how people seem to think 4870 = XXX transitors so 5870 MUST = XXXXXXXXX

Fuzzy logic, these people have no idea how ATI will design or even re-design their products and should not pretend too.

Heh, it is a transistor buff aswell as architecture improvements. The big architecture improvements came a generation or 2 ago.

Well for ati just one surely?

Anywho as long as I can buy a kick ass new graphics card for £150 every year then I'm happy, these idiots that buy cards within the first 6 months must sure like losing money.

Also that article suggesting a new dawn of 3-4 pci-e power connectors is silly, i'm sure by that time we will have to at least change the motherboards connector to the graphics card to at least supply most of the power to the cards. That could mean bigger mobo power connectors but either way to fit 4 pci-e connectors would mean the card would be huge and wouldn't even fit inside my antec 900!

Yeah, not much point in me having a desktop at the moment as I only play EQ2.


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