AIBs Custom HD5970 4GB(2x2GB)

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I'll believe when I see them in the stores. But I suspect mere mortals won't be able to get one, they'll be reserved for reviews and the speed records will be loudly proclaimed everywhere. I guess I'm just tired of reading about the fastest hardware no one can buy.

They have rarely been out of stock for more than a few days in the UK after a shakey period just after launch.
Scan, Ebuyer and OCUK seem to always have some in stock from one or two OEMs.
I cant imagine why you cant get them over there, its usually europeans and aussies that get the short straw on availability.

[ajaidev]

Petunia is AMDs internal code name for the new, more highly clocking hp 5970 variants.

http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/trans...%3fnews%3d3475

[D749]

Petunia is AMDs internal code name for the new, more highly clocking hp 5970 variants.

http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/trans...%3fnews%3d3475

Is Petunia different than the Asus Ares, Sapphire, etc. offering that will be coming out soon? I couldn't quite figure that out from the article.

[lowfat]

Wasn't there a thread about this card already?
Anyway, I don't like the cooler, ASUS MARS should be much better. On the other hand, you really are supposed to waterocol these imo...

FC waterblocks for these beasts will be like $200+. Look how far apart the GPU's are. That block will need to be huge.

[prostoman]

For that $$$ and that Limited Edition factor, the watercooling should be standard

[Olivon]

BSN - ATI Radeon HD 5970 is the king of iPhone, Wi-Fi password cracking

For instance, the company just announced GPU acceleration for their iPhone/iPod Backup and Wi-Fi Password Recovery if you're using ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series. According to the company, ATI Radeon HD 5000 series offers up to 20x performance increase when compared to top of the line Core i7 CPUs and up to two times faster than enterprise-level, four GPU-based Tesla products.

ElcomSoft used CUDA to enable GPU acceleration in their software code and they're proudly showing "Designed for CUDA" logo on their site. Yet, it is the simplicity of CUDA code that enabled AMD's version of the code to execute in "ass-whooping" way and passed the magical barrier of 100,000 broken Wireless passwords in a single second

[Manicdan]

^wow thats asking for a war to break out.

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BSN - ATI Radeon HD 5970 is the king of iPhone, Wi-Fi password cracking

Well, he got that one wrong, CUDA isn't running on ATI .

I didn't expect BSN* to fail this badly

[annihilat0r]

this one probably will brake your mobo btw why does even ati need 2 gb 5970 i mean 1 gb will prolly tear 480 apart unless miracle happens

That miracle might be observed in 2560x4aa resolutions. A 5870 has horrible min FPS due to low memory (in Crysis benchmark it gets 2 min FPS). Add another card, it gets doubled but its still horrible. To get better at 2560x4aa you need more RAM per core.

If this is really a counter to 480, by your line of thinking, I don't think even a 5970 is needed to counter a GTX 480. A 2GB HD5870 with clocks around 950 should do the trick perfectly.

[Olivon]

Well, he got that one wrong, CUDA isn't running on ATI .

I didn't expect BSN* to fail this badly

Right, seems Theo completly not understood this article

Massive fail