The ATI Radeon 5XXX Thread

[Earzz]

Here's a pic of it crammed into an A05B

Hi iandh, im planning to buy a PC-A05N but my guess is seeing your picture that a 5870X2 wont fit.
What do you think guys?

[bingo13]

heheh guys i took the shot at an AMD presentation the other day in Sydney
its not my card
i wish it was

but performance should be well known anyways just look at 5870 Xfire results pretty much heh

notice how long it is EEEEEEEEEEEK

I was wondering about that as most of us are under NDA. I wish I could show three of these on an upcoming board and it's not Intel based.

[dinos22]

yeah they didnt hide anything or say it cant be photographed
they opened the case up so i can take better shots
if i wasnt allowed to i wouldnt post it of course

3x of these wow
which OS are you going to use? i thought vista/7 doesnt like more than 4xGPU cores

[gurneyhck]

@Dinos, any word on shared memory pool?
Or can we expect the same card as the HD4870X2 but then with (obviously) RV870 cores instead of RV770? Or are there some extra tweaks this round?

[Leeghoofd]

no monitor can handle that kindda of powaaaa I hope to do some pre crossfire tests tonite on the REX II with the normal 5870's

[dinos22]

to be honest i wasnt aware of that
to tell the truth i was so stunned by what i saw on a rig right next to it that i totally ignore than 5870X2 rig

what did i see

a single 5870 running 6xLCDs playing some car game whatever the name with a 5xxx by 2xxx resolution with highest graphics settings possible running smoothly with an occasional slight slowdown when it gets real dusty in the game and to top it all of it was running on default clocks on some AMD CPU as well heheh




yeah thats right
5xxx by 2xxx resolution with highest graphics settings possible running smoothly

i dont know about you guys but that is the most awesome thing i have ever experienced when it comes to technology i you not!

[Lightman]

Lucky bastard

That game was DiRT2 and I'm getting one thanks to AMD bundle for HD5870!

The next step is to get 2 more monitors so I can play on 3 screens (at least initially)

PS. Bingo13: how come? 3xHD58x0X2 in one system? I'm guessing the motherboard was based on RD890FX or something similar ....
PS.2 After second though I think you're hinting about Hydra ....

[Helloworld_98]

to be honest i wasnt aware of that
to tell the truth i was so stunned by what i saw on a rig right next to it that i totally ignore than 5870X2 rig

what did i see

a single 5870 running 6xLCDs playing some car game whatever the name with a 5xxx by 2xxx resolution with highest graphics settings possible running smoothly with an occasional slight slowdown when it gets real dusty in the game and to top it all of it was running on default clocks on some AMD CPU as well heheh




yeah thats right
5xxx by 2xxx resolution with highest graphics settings possible running smoothly

i dont know about you guys but that is the most awesome thing i have ever experienced when it comes to technology i you not!

the resolution was 5760x2160 and the game is probably dirt 2.

I just want to know how the 5870 six handle's such high resolutions so well.

[dinos22]

mate this card is a monster
these resolutions and level of detail on some default AMD system
imagine the same rig with a nehalem on water running 4.4GHz with a couple of these in Xfire

scary

[LC_Nab]

Man I cant wait for that monster to get out , and can you run eyefinity on 3 monitors even if it doesn't have the 6 dvi plugs , or we have to wait for the 6 version ?




5870x2 " All your case are belong to us "

5870x2 " You are are on your way to case destruction "

We " What you say !! we can mod the case !! "

5870x2 " Ha ha ha ha ha .... "

5870x2 " You have no chance to mod make your time "

We " Take off every BAY " !!

AMD " You know what you doing. "

We " For great justice !! "

[One_Hertz]

I've been having lots of driver issues with 5870 CF. The performance randomly drops a lot to about 19k in 3d06 once a day (in single card OR CF mode) due to an unknown reason and the only way to get it back is to reinstall the drivers. I am starting to get angry.

The microstutter in far cry 2 is HORRIBLE as well. Unless FPS is 90+ (which it thankfully is most of the times on maxed settings 19*12) it is annoying to play the game. I can switch off CF and play single card just fine but then I have to turn settings way down.

I am in between phase change units right now so my CPU speed blows (4ghz qx9650). I am actually quite CPU limited here and there in farcry 2. Can't wait to get my new unit and clock it back up properly.

At this point in time with the current crappy drivers, I would not recommend CF even if you got lots of money.

[Chickenfeed]

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The microstutter in far cry 2 is HORRIBLE as well. Unless FPS is 90+ (which it thankfully is most of the times on maxed settings 19*12) it is annoying to play the game. I can switch off CF and play single card just fine but then I have to turn settings way down.

I'm sad to hear this about FC2. It sucks with my 4870x2 as well ( same issue you speak of). I was hoping that would be fixed with the 5 series but I guess not, CF is still CF It is so hard to use a sniper. On the single card configs I tested, things were fine...

Too bad to hear about the driver problems as well. I will say I learned the hard way jumping on the 4870x2 as soon as I did so I am waiting before a decent level of driver maturity before touching multi gpu again ( be it 5870s or GT300s )

Should have my 5870 within the hour so can't wait to try FC2 again with it and my new machine.

[RFC Rudel]

price and release date of 5870 Eyefinity 6?

[-The_Mask-]

Juniper



HD5700 will be with 1120 stream processors and 56 texture units TMU, the memory is GDDR5. Far as we know there will be HD5770 (199 dollars) and HD5750 (149 U.S. Dollar), HD5770 will replace the current HD4890, the HD5750 is to replace the HD4870. HD5700 opponent is to the NVIDIA GTX275, GTX260, GTS250 and the future D10P GT200b series. Others like DX11, ATI Steam, UVD2, Eyefinity, CrossFire technologies are also readily available.

[Chickenfeed]

I've just had the card for shy of an hour now and will give my impressions so far.
It has replaced a 4870x2 ( it is being rmad finally )

One of the things I took issue on with the 4870x2 was noise. So far the 5870 is much much quieter. Running Crysis Warhead and Vantage on Extreme the X2 would get quite loud ( or playing some games without vsync - eg L4D ) The 5870 is barely discernible over the rest of the machine ( there is a very subtle whine which appears to be coming from the fan - its not electrical whine by the way - something which my X2 suffered from )

One of the main issues i had with the X2 (other than the big problem that it blue screened on boot 75% of the time for the last 6 months... ) is when scaling 4:3 resolutions, there would be severe distortion ( this is prevalent in the 3Dmark cpu tests but also in old games that don't support 16:10 ; half of the image would be fine but the other half was warping back and forth really fast like it was having a seizure ) I thought it was an issue with my LCD but the 5870 is scaling 4:3 with fixed aspect ratio just peachy.

As far as performance I've yet to test anything outside of Crysis and Vantage but I will note that the games input seemed smoother than the X2 even though the frame rates seem roughly the same.

For reference with Vantage the X2 scored X7611 (7393 gpu / 17300 cpu ) where as the 5870 scored X8273 ( 8050 gpu / 17406 cpu ) all the while using half the power and being much quieter.

I still have a lot of testing to do ( and gaming ) but I will follow up with my results later on ( as well as overclocking soon enough ) If anyone has any requests / questions, feel free to ask and I'll do my best.

EDIT : After playing L4D, I must say the game felt noticeably nicer with the 5870. I also had adaptive MSAA enabled which I didn't on the 4870x2 and it still had fewer drops and hitches. Pretty impressed so far.

[Helloworld_98]

Juniper



HD5700 will be with 1120 stream processors and 56 texture units TMU, the memory is GDDR5. Far as we know there will be HD5770 (199 dollars) and HD5750 (149 U.S. Dollar), HD5770 will replace the current HD4890, the HD5750 is to replace the HD4870. HD5700 opponent is to the NVIDIA GTX275, GTX260, GTS250 and the future D10P GT200b series. Others like DX11, ATI Steam, UVD2, Eyefinity, CrossFire technologies are also readily available.

that looks really ugly, but it would make a great addition to a 1156 mini-ITX build

[LordEC911]

that looks really ugly, but it would make a great addition to a 1156 mini-ITX build

The one shown is one of the lower binned cards w/ 960SPs.
The highend with 1120SPs has a RV740 lookalike cooler.

EDIT- Some are now talking about 1120SPs for the highend and 960/800SP for the 5750 and maybe a lowend with 720SP(though that doesn't sound right).

Also fitting 14SIMDs and a 128bit bus in 181mm2 leaves people thinking there is more in Cypress than what AMD/ATi has been letting us believe.

[Quad-Damage]

Should I replace my 4850 with a 5 Series. Should I do a card with a water block. I have water on my CPU but not my video card.

Looking for Silence

[Utnorris]

Anyone know if ATI Stream is now working in x64? I cannot seem to find any updates on this and it's one thing I like about Nvidia cards and Badaboom.

[PaulC]

I'd like to share mine two of them crammed into a lian li pc-A03

[nascasho]

Nice! Since you're showing off yours, heres mine:



yeah, I know it's a little messy but I rushed because I was so excited to get it up and running.

[kadozer]

Sexy twins

[Levesque]

Where are those %$?&!" 5870X2!!!!

I just got my X25-M 160GB, and only waiting for the 5870X2 to build my new comp!

[jaredpace]

oct 19!

[gurneyhck]

oct 19!

Is that the day that the NDA ends?