ATI hd5870x4 rumors, good game Nvidia!

"Actually, it doesn't sound optimistic enough to me. If the die size of 205mm² is true, ATI could sell these things for really cheap. The Radeon HD 4830, with its 256mm² die size and 256-bit memory interface, is already selling for less than $130 USD. I'm thinking something more like this:

Radeon HD 5870 X4 (Dual MCM, 800MHz Core, 2GB 1200MHz GDDR5) - $649
Radeon HD 5870 X2 (MCM, 800MHz Core, 1GB 1200MHz GDDR5) - $349
Radeon HD 5870 (800MHz Core, 512MB 1200MHz GDDR5) - $199
Radeon HD 5850 (600-650MHz Core, 512MB 1100MHz GDDR3) - $129"

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"Today appeared new information about the RV870 chip . Associate reports that this 40 nm chip models will appear at the end of present year, and to the end of first quarter 2009 it will reach the series production .

The quantity of stream processors on RV870 chip can grow up to 1000 pieces. Their resulting computational performance can reach 1,5 teraflops.

The memory capacity on RV870 video card can reach 150-160 Gbit/s. If we considers that Radeon HD 4870 with 256- bit bus and 3600 MHz DDR memory frequency ensures a capacity at the level of 115,2 Gbit/s, RV870 can raise the memory frequency to 4800 MHz DDR with constant memory bus. Qimonda company already released GDDR5 microcircuits working at frequencies up to 5000 MHz DDR .

The RV870 core area will decrease from 256 sq. mm, in RV770, to 205 sq. mm. This will allow to create the two-chip graphical solutions easily."

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integrated memory controller
960 or 1000 shaders
~850 core clocks
~4800GHz ram clocks(can easily overclock to low 5GHz)
1-4GB ram configurations depending on how many GPUs
256 bit ram, 512 bit ram possible with revisions.
dx10.1 now with dx11 for refresh revision

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If you hear of more rumors, post here! This is exciting for those gaming at 1920x1080 or higher resolution and have the best overclocked core duo cpus. I wonder when they will have giant LCD monitors above 2560x1600? Otherwise the hd5870x4 is gonna be overkill!

if this is all true, i'm so glad i skipped the 4xxx series x) not that they weren't good, but i hope it would justify me keeping my 3870x2 for a bit longer than i wanted to

Haha.. no joke. An X4 would be a hungry hungry hippo.

Everyone has to remember, nVidias current G200 is going 576mm² , so 2 of those is 1152mm² in SLI, so 4 5xxx series di will still be over 25% less, and SLI in G200 is doable, tho you do need a monster psu

A single 5870 is rumored to be around 20% faster, and possibly 30% faster than a 4870

I wonder what kind of heat 5870x4 will produce... My 4870x2 is insane.

i wonder that too, but since it'll most likely be on a 40nm process, things should be cooler than the current 55nm gen.

here's some more of the same:
http://www.nordichardware.com/news,8292.html

IDK.... 3200SP for one card or for 2? Because a jump from 800 to 3200 does seem a bit much. 320 to 800 seemed believeable, and was. But 3200. I would imagine the performance would be greater than 30% better.

Maybe I will wait out for this. I bet anything that it will be DX11 though. ATI normally seems to push DX support as soon as possible and even though all HD series GPUs (from the 2K series and up) have Geometry shaders I would prefer a newer faster GPU for christmas.

If that is true, then my gas bills are going to be tiny next year...
I am 99% sure it won't happen though heh. 5000 series is mainly going to be a die shrink, pushing for power efficiency, cooling and a smaller die size (= cheaper chips). I doubt they'll push for any more performance yet

^That I agree with. The VRAM chip maker already has 5000MHz GDDR5 chips so thats easily dooable as is upping it to say 960 SP.

But if it is a R800 it will need more than just another 160 SP. This looks to just be a refresh like the 3800 series was of the 2900 series. Same chip essentially just better power consumption numbers and less heat.

The R800 I would think would be at least 1K SP and probably double the TMUs and texture units too to actually increas performance even more.

^If thats true then me skipping the 3800 and 4800 series is a good thing. My good ol 2900 pro 1GB is great. But upping to that should yeild even better performance increases in most games if this is true.

Still have to wait for official word from ATI though......

Lol, just making a bit of legal controversy here.

Well, the photos and their concepts still look interesting to share and there is nothing wrong with sharing these photos on this forum...

I don't mind different opinions from different people too...

Anyway, thanks for the comments from those who do believe that these are real and those who do not believe that these are real but like I said before on my thread: "Photos of New ATI Radeon HD 5800 series?!", I don't know whether these photos represent the real HD 5800 series or not. I got them from a Laotian Forum website where I don't understand Laos language but found these photos/concepts to be interesting.

For others who would like to comment or insult, please feel free to do so...

Why this rehash? We already know where these really came from, and who "borrowed" them. Sure, its a nice concept, but being able to read Laotian is hardly a requirement to know that this is someones ( a forum goers) concept of a possibility of what might be one of many possibilities that may occur. Even the Inq hasnt truly bit on this one heheh

check this out........ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/AMD- [...] l?x=0&.v=1