In case you didn't see this. I looks like fresh from the oven:
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=11135
Some Highlights
According to our own sources, the new HD 5870 offers over 1600 Stream processors. Amazingly AMD doubled the number of SIMD units from 10 to 20. Still every SIMD unit contains 16 5D units and a Quad-TMU. Overall: 1600 stream processors and 80 TMUs. We are talking about a videocard whose core is at 850 MHz and whose 256-bit GDDR5 runs at 1200 MHz – all for the suggested retail of $399! AMD is expecting HD 5870 to come close to the performance of a HD 4870-X2 or GTX 295.
There is a new ERM eyefinity which means 3 LCDs can be simultaneously supported at 2560×1920, with options for future cards to support six LCDS!!
The die size is 330 MM2 and packed with over 2.1 billion transistors. This translates into one beast of a card with just over 150 GB/sec. It is very likely that the 8X + 8X PCIe CrossFire slots of the new p55 motherboards for Core i5 will become saturated.
What is outstanding is that we are hearing that the HD 5870 will perform at just over 26 watts at idle and peak below 190 watts maximum!! That is quite a challenge for Nvidia to meet or beat in their own upcoming GT 300 series.
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