New specs for HD 5870 & 5850

[lorik]

Finger Crossed if it beats GTX 295 & 4870X2

http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=11135

 

[FallenSniper]

Interesting

 

[invisik]

Looks very good. Nvidia has no new cards to respond to the low/mid range but i hear there high end card is going to be a beast. 512sp, 2gig gddr5 512 bit, 40nm, dx11.

 

[Mousemonkey]

28w on idle is pretty impressive I gotta admit.

 

[daedalus685]

If the power consumption really is that low I'm rather shocked. Looks good for multi gpu versions.

 

[Maziar]

Looks good, too bad it doesn't talk much about 5870X2 though

 

[aberchonbie]

too bad it costs $300 just for the 5850

 

[Pailin]

I don't think those high prices are real - ATI talked about aggressive pricing... pleasantly surprising people etc

am still hopeful of a much lower price point.

 

[aznguy0028]

yea the power consumption seems insane! let's hope it's all real

 

[Andraxxus]

Well well well there was a story here: http://www.nordichardware.com/news,9887.html that said the HD5870 will support up to 6 monitors at 2560x1600 and that the performance will be 25-40% better then that of a HD4870 depending on product(the game or whatever you put it up for).That news got me so dissapointed but appparently now they pulled the story I hope that it's more than what they said there.
Also what if just if ATI sells the cards at $50 or why not $100 cheaper than the rumored prices ?
Also was there a launch already or a delay or something what are they doing they were going to release the cards to the press today?

 

[one-shot]

Now we just need some DX11 games. Just not in 5 years when a new Graphics API is out.

 

[amnotanoobie]

The beauty with the unified shaders is that now they could continuously add more and more shaders to boost performance.

Though I am very skeptical about the power consumption even if we are talking about 32nm.

 

[Andraxxus]

The first game that has DX11 is Dirt2 on PC, the Aliens Predator (thing) + 2 more but I don't remember.
I think they are going to launch the HD58XX with a techdemo of they're own and with the gameplay of Dirt2.

 

[Mousemonkey]

The beauty with the unified shaders is that now they could continuously add more and more shaders to boost performance.

Though I am very skeptical about the power consumption even if we are talking about 32nm.

Surely you mean 40nm.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Yea, but it nuthin compared to nVidias new killer monster bbq fps beyond a zillion card

 

[Maziar]

lol ^^ i wonder how will that fit in a case

 

[Andraxxus]

For some reason I would like to see that on the market
They would most likely bundle it with a power plant.

 

[Andraxxus]

These seem to be the final specs (maybe):
http://www.hardware-infos.com/news.php?news=3187&sprache=1
http://www.hardware-infos.com/news.php?news=3188
Also this http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/page-270040_15_0.html

 

[Dekasav]

I dunno, if they're at 1600 Shaders and 80TMU's, AND a higher clockspeed, how could they not eat the HD 4870X2 for breakfast? Same # of shaders/TMU's and such, higher bandwidth (per core), and in a single-chip.

Methinks that 60% increase was talking about the HD 5850.

 

[Andraxxus]

I think somewhere ATI is laughing it's head off at the rumours that are floating. What if it's all fake and when they show the real thing it throws us off our rocking chairs? When is the press release taking place?

 

[Guest]

Cant beleive where I got thursday the 10th launch date from but I have been looking forward to today for a long time just to find out it could be the 23rd instead

Am looking forward to seeing the true benchies and specs soon, but from what is going around it looks like they will have a stonker of a card to release,

It seems to me that Nvidia has definately got the lead on faster cards, well they have since the 7xxx series and dont doubt when they launch the gtx300 it will be a huge card, but I am now quite happy sticking to ATI roadpath and upgrading accordingly, as it just costs so much less for the required performance! (unless I was going to get a 30" screen of course)

 

[gamerk316]

I figured the origional $299 price for the 5870 was far too low; $399 sounds about right for something as fast as the 4870X2.

That being said, being *only* as fast as a 4870X2 is somewhat of a dissapointment; basically, they kept with the premier card of the next generation being as fast as the previous X2 model...That's hardly the double performance gains *some* people here were bragging about...

 

[jennyh]

I figured the origional $299 price for the 5870 was far too low; $399 sounds about right for something as fast as the 4870X2.

That being said, being *only* as fast as a 4870X2 is somewhat of a dissapointment; basically, they kept with the premier card of the next generation being as fast as the previous X2 model...That's hardly the double performance gains *some* people here were bragging about...

It's almost twice as powerful as a single 4890. Not a 4890x2, which if it existed would only have around 1.7x the power of a single 4890 in terms of fps scaling.

It is a *lot* more powerful than a 4870x2.

 

[Dekasav]

It's almost twice as powerful as a single 4890. Not a 4890x2, which if it existed would only have around 1.7x the power of a single 4890 in terms of fps scaling.

It is a *lot* more powerful than a 4870x2.

Reliable sources or it's not true.

Show me the evidence.

 

[lorik]

Reliable sources or it's not true.

Show me the evidence.

We've seen previous ATI cards double in performance compared to newly ones like hd2xxx < hd3xxx < 4xxx so this one is no different and crysis is already showing about 125% improvement or maybe a bit less. Only if the news circulating are correct we're talking