The ATI Radeon 5XXX Thread

[saaya]

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i think this deserves its own thread?
its pretty unlikely that charlie got those numbers wrong so close to the launch...

this can only mean 2 things though... either going from 10.1 to 11 takes a lot more transistors than we thought, or those gpus actually contain some extra shader blocks and other blocks... those could be for redundancy since its a rather big chip and 40nm wafers are still somewhat the swiss cheese of semiconductors im curious though if those redundant parts can be enabled in the near future when yields improve and we will se a 5890 with actually more logic and not just higher clocks...

about pricing:
GTX295 500$
GTX285 350$
GTX275 225$
GTX260 175$
GTS250 125$

4870x2 400$
4890 200$
4870 175$
4850 125$
4770 125$

if the 5870 is 399$ and it beats the 295, veeery likely , then what about the 5850?
it definately beats the 285, lets assume for 100$ less as well? then thats 299$... quite a jump from 5850 to 5870... but its possible...
now with the 5850 at 299$ what happens to the 4800 series? they get replaced by juniper aka 5830 at about the same price?

while ati could def position their cards that way, i doubt they will... it wouldnt generate a lot of drive for people to buy new cards...
make it 349, 279, 200 or even 299, 249 and 175 instead and people will suddenly feel a big urge to upgrade