HD5870 and HD5850 Reviews

[villa1n]

I see this launch as an opportunity for NV, the door is left really wide open because the gap is not nearly big enough.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3643&p=17

If you ignore resident evil(37%) and Dawn of war II(loses by 4%), the gap between CF 5870 and GTX 285 SLI is between 10-20% ahead for the 5870cf.

This is all speculations but..

If the GTX 380 is indeed 510 shaders vs 240 and higher clocks than the gtx 285 and they improve the AA algorithm which has been long overdue for the company and other things coming with the new architechture(since it is said to be new), I can see a GTX 380 possibly being as fast as a CF 5870 or a 5870x2. If this happens(and it is a big if), NV will be able to charge as much as they want for the gtx 380. And similarly a gtx 395 will be untouchable. I know its the halo, and people don't spend the most money there(volume), but its enough to make the 5870 crumble in price which is a good thing. It also gives NV room to attack the 5870 in its own home, with scaled down versions of the gtx 380.

I think waiting for the gtx 380 whatever flavor you go, because I can't see the gtx 380 not having an effect on the price of the 5870.

I d be skeptical of any sli vs CF comparisons with immature drivers... I would only take single card results for the moment, as the yare probably more representative of the performance so the margin between a 285 vs 5870... probably accurately reflects the performance diff, versus the CF / SLI comparison at the moment, as scaling will most likely improve substantially from launch numbers.

To better illustrate...

Compare the scaling of a 4870 to a 4870x2 .. versus a 5870 to 5870x2... now unless there is some architectural abnormality with 58xx series, the scaling should come close to mirroring what the 4870 achieved, granting there is no bottlenecking to prevent that via pci-e or cpu, etc.

On top of that, I m sure these clock speeds aren't set in stone, as the process matures, we ll have what equates to 4890's appearing as well i m sure, that and the fact nvidia to the best of our knowledge isn't ready to launch anything for 4months yet... So we ll see, I think this will drop 4870x2's like a rock, and 285's and 295's as well, which will allow me to cheaply trifire a 4870x2 with my 48701gb while i wait and let the smoke settle in q1 2010 ^^ Plus, it remains to be seen if the lynnfield will suffer at high res from the pci-e lanes..at 8x ** that answers that! lol.