1 week to go till 5800 series...

So who is picking one of these bad boys up next week? What are you upgrading from and are you expecting a huge difference with the system you currently have. I'm going from a 4870 1gb I bought a year ago and looking for a nice boost in performance. Just picked up Red Faction Guerilla for PC and going to max out all settings 1920 x 1200. Next game will be Borderlands, then Modern Warfare 2, Dirt 2. 2010 will be a great year for pc gaming for sure!

Oh, I'll buy the card first, then I'll take my single 22" screen up to my friends place. We have 3 identical lcd's so I dont see any issues with eyefinity there.

I bought a $1200ish i7 920 system last month, but have been running an 8600GT as a placeholder until the 58xx's come out. I might buy the 5870 if its 350ish, otherwise I'll go with the 5850. Lots of gaming to catch up on- Bioshock, Mass Effect, Crysis, Modern Warfare...

I'm going to get 2 5870x2s and Quadfire them to replace my trifire 4870x2+4870 setup now. this will be my last upgrade on this pc. Pushing Dell 30" 3008wfp, and 2 26" Viewsonic VP2650wbs, plus a 23" acer (only for remote desktop and watching my dvr) I can't wait to use all the 3 main monitors for gaming.

In the spring, I plan on building a new pc, put in the other room only for gaming, hopefully using a nice bezeless 6 monitor setup. By then I'll be able to see what Nvidia brings also.

I will probably pick up a 5870 2GB for my new build. Since I really only want to play GTA4 I was hoping they would have available a 5850 2GB on release day. IF they would release that for $350 that would be my sweet spot.

If you're looking for a buyer for those spare GPUs, I'm here.

Im not planning to upgrade yet. Ill let my gtx260 sli hold off till 2011. No games are really pushing current high end cards hard enough.

Looking forward to switching out the Ol' 8800gtx for a 5870, should go nicely with the 3.6ghz Q6600 and 8gb ram.
Then have to look for 2 more monitors to go with my 22"

Call me when something stresses my OC'd 4890.

The reason the 5870 makes sense is cause you can play ANY game on it at the highest settings. There is no reason NOT to get it except price.

I may pick one up, but only if it's at least 33% faster than my 4890 and I'm not gonna pay €400 for it.
If they'll charge less than €300 for it (reasonable considering the exchange rate) I'll order one right after I've read through the benchmarks.

A few things will have to happen for me to upgrade.
1. My games will need to get more demanding, possibly caused by...
2. I go to a higher resolution than 1680x1050.
3. Prices must drop into the "reasonable" range; I paid about $160 for my HD4850 at the beginning of the year. I think I paid around that for a 7600GT when it was new, so my psychological barrier is probably $180-$200.

It will help if the power consumption is low; will there be a 5670?

If ATI really wants to stick it to Nvidia, they should go 5850 at $200-$250 and 5870 at $300-$350. Imagine the scramble on Nvidia side.

I probably will pick one up, or wait for the 5870x2, I have a GTX295 right now, 3 22" LCDs, going to buy 3 more 24" LCDs, provided the benchmarks of the new cards aren't completely disappointing, or Nvidia miraculously comes out with something.

Juniper should be the 5670, probably about as powerful as a 4870 or slightly higher. It won't be priced the same as the 4670 was ofc, but i bet it will be extremely cheap before too long.

The 5670 looks like it will be a smart choice for those with crossfire mobos. I'm in two minds whether or not to go dual 5670's for it or just go for the 5870/5850 to start with.

I will be waiting until I see some hard proof of performance, and if the 5870 is in the $300-350 range I will be picking atleast one up.

WOOT

If that is the case then maybe just maybe as hard as it will be to not jump on the buy it when its first comes out band wagon, it might be a good Idea to wait until they are out, because either way it may be a win for us, price drops on the 5870's or the 5700's CF performance might be unreal against the 4800's.

Well I got to say this is the first i really hear about this cards! I heard some things here and there but nothing as big as they are next week! but really i think ill wait with getting one of them because i just got an i7 that ran be around $700.00 with mobo can and CPU fan and now paying $400.00+- for a GPU when i have a 280 sounds like im throwing out my momey ! but i didnt hear a lot about the card so sould i wait like 4 months and then get the card or is it that much better then the 280 ?

btw is it DX11 ?

I am not buying one until the first price drop which is fine because that is when I will likely have money to buy one for my next build.

Now that 5770 looks much more like what im going to be interested in, reported 1.6 times a 4770 performance and with DX11 and im guessing from reported system specs that its only going to need 1 power cable

Mactronix

So with these juniper cards then is there no issue with the 128bit interface and using 1gb of memory ? Will it not cause a restriction of some sorts ?

Mactronix

What strikes me as odd is that they are using a naming scheme which has no correlation to the naming scheme used with the 4870 as the 4770 was a special part which had no real place within the 4xxx series.

Also as mactronix points out it could cause a "bottleneck" if i dare say it.

From my meagre understanding of these things they would need 8 chips with a 16bit bus to match the 128bit memory interface. The memory chips themselves would also need to unable to send or receive more than 16bits in one go.

Seeing as that level of the hardware I have no idea the specs your guess is as good as mine.

Anyone care to hypothesise how that will work?

Not sure if upgrading from a factory OC Asus TOP 4890 to a 5870 would be worthwhile.

I see myself grabbing a 5870x2 later this year or early next year depending on price...

Well, the 128 bit memory in the 4770 allowed it to almost match a 4850.
I think the 128 bit bus IS the desired bottleneck (and cost-reducing feature) to bring the 5000 series to the "performance" or mid range market.
If the 5770 it performs as the 4870, I'll get it for sure.
I'd love to get a fully fledged 5870, but they'll be way too expensive for a while...
Just can't wait to see what NVida brings to the table.