5870 will be more powerful if you go just by specs , recent leaks suggest the same , 4870x2 has scaling issues , 5870 will not , plus its unclear how much the design was changed in rv870 .AMd really delivered this time , everyone wanted the same transformation they had from 3xxx to 4xxx and we seem to be getting it , would be nice to see what NV has but at this point it will be hard for people not to jump the ship considering ATI has everything they wanted.
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That's your problem right there. Just forget about how things look on paper as that's irrelevant.
I hope the rumour that it will be benched tomorrow is true.
If most of this speculation turns out true then I'll know what it is like to experience a 9800 or 8800 ultra.
Unfortunately I got into gaming in the DIRE era when DX10 just came on the scene and cards were underpowered. I started off with an 8600 gts ....
HD5870 & HD5850: Final Specifications
http://forums.vr-zone.com/news-aroun...fications.htmlOriginally Posted by KonKorT
Anyone know the pci-e speeds? Is that 166.4 GB/S gonna overload the 8x bus?
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Can anyone tell if it's using two 6-pin, or 8-pin + 6-pin PCI-e? One connector looks bigger than the other to me.
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Looks 6 and 8 to me.
So it begs the question, is it HD 5870 X2?
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NO, i think it's HD 5870 SIX 2GB... see the 6 mini DP connections on the back.... and if it's 6 + 8, then it's not 5850 or 5870... shoot i dunno...
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This is true, just watching the video i begun to forget the edge was there, but i guess it comes down to the person. Some people are very anal about this kinda thing and would not be happy unless the view is seamless.
Actaully you could call me an nVidiot (3 GTX280's) but i fell into these just through dumb luck, I first had 2 9800GX2's and i didnt want to really fork out for a new board when it was time to drop them. I only wish 775 had supported what the i7 supports now with both xFire + SLI. I'm happy to admit that i would drop these cards for the next best thing be it from nvidia or ATI
I enjoy benching alot and jumping fence is not a problem. I actually kinda like AMD/ATI just because it's not what most people go, it's not really the underdog it's more of the unknown.
I guess we'll really know for sure pretty soon who actually likes ATI and who just loves rooting for the underdog.
Im still betting on those ports in the back being air-intakes for the centrifugal radial fan, but i could be wrong.
What do you think final performance will be?
that card is freaking longgg
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Looks like the same size as your 8800ultra, maybe 1/2-1inch shorter
Who cares, who will be looking at GC instead of the monitor...
Are we there yet?
hmm I don't think so, as GTX 285 has around 165 GB/s, and it dosnt get bottlenecked by x8 in most reviews I seen.
does that mean this card won't be bottlenecked on pci-e 1.1?
still wait 4 the bench !!!!
Kind of disappointing that its 8+6 pin for power. But I guess its the hard usage numbers that count.
All that bandwidth is transferred internally on the card between the GPU and it's memory for the workloads the GPU has to deal with. The PCIe bus isn't burdened with that kind of load at all, and doesn't have that kind of bandwidth anyway.
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I cant believe ATI has stayed so tight lipped with such a xtreme beast of a GPU about to be launched!
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Hehehe dragon ball Z... good old times
I'm defintley gonna pick two of these up and if they announce the GeForce 300's specs to be out-of-this world, I'll sell em'.
These will be my first ATI cards... so excited.
I want to see 5870x2 with 4gb instead of 2gb.
All systems sold. Will be back after Sandy Bridge!
I wonder how well this card overclocks with 8 + 6 pin PCIE connectors. If 5870 hits 1Ghz easy that will put it miles ahead of GTX 285 FTW/ZOMFG/BBQ SLI set up.
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What are TMU's? I tried looking it up.
That 5850 seems way $$$ if it is set to replace the 4850?
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