AMD Radeon HD 5770 Hits Streets Early

I want for my first crossfire box.

The HD5770 has been listed in Aus for at least a week. Even the HD5750 is listed.

Our local computer shop is selling them as well. $190 CDN, which is pretty much the price of the 4890. I'd love to get my hands on one. There was 4 in stock today, but I didn't have any money with me

Thats not an HD5770, thats an HD4870. lol almost exact same specs.

hmm... HD5770 is listed for $159.9 on newegg.com which is almost the same as HD4870(1G). Toms, when are we going to have the compairson between these 2 cards?
More importantly will HD5770 pushs HD4870 and HD4850 even cheaper?
I will defintely love to see the price drop of HD4870 and HD4850!...

It may be same specs as a 4870. However I'd buy a 4870 with DX11 and Eyefinity any day.

Looks like it will be on par with the 4870, except with several more display ports and probably improved power efficiencies here and there.

What will the 128-bit memory do to the performance?

By the way, base on the nature of the crossfire setup... I guess we will not be able to pair up HD4xxx with HD5xxx on crossfire...

Wondering if there is going to be a price drop of HD4870 and/or HD4850... will it be better to spend the money for a pair of HD4870/HD4850 or a single HD5870/HD5770?

I hope Toms is going to roll out a lot of reviews on these setups...

Even more pain for nvidia. So much for their too little too late gt220 "budget" cards.

This gives me new-gear-fever... I don't need it, but I want one.

It would make sense for the HD4870 and HD4850 to undergo a bit of a price drop, which would make the 4870 an absolute steal. AMD/ATI seems to be taking care of business at least on the graphics side of things.

Where the heck is the HD 5870x2!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh snap Nvidia is geeting its ass beat at the momment.

What??? 5750s just hit the market too!!! Check it out...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814102859

You guys are aware Nvidia 300 series cards are going to smoke ATI's 5800 cards right? Nvidia has ALWAYS been the video card king. ATI has been making a good showing of late and that is good for all of us since it creates price wars which benefits us.

ATI's 5800 cards I have seen tested only slightly outperformed Nvidia's current line up (not talking about $$) and they should do just that but the margin was very small. Nvidia is in no rush to get their cards out...DX11 games aren't even around yet so why rush the product out?

Don't get me wrong I am a huge AMD fan and I am enjoy seeing them putting out some decent vid cards but I have always used Nvidia cards since they always have higher performance hands down. It is just odd to hear so many people say how ATI is "hurting" Nvidia because it released it's cards first. They are getting some of the premature DX11 market but they might be pissed when they see what Nvidia presents us with.

I could see them start to phase out the 4xxx series now... they really have all their bases covered now that the 5750s are out. Now the manufacturers just need to start pumping out the cards.

@edilee i agree, AMD are showing their cards way to soon.

I can see it as an attempt to crab the early market share, I bet nvidia is going to drop a bomb when they "quietly" (as amd does always did) slip in their next cards.

But as it stands, people are making judgments way to soon.

why are they so big! what ever happened to the flag ship cards being single slot and shot enough to actually fit in normal ATX cases! (like the 7800)

after the 8800 nvidia even said "this will be the last monster gfx card"
but they just keep getting bigger and bigger. they completely trampled on the ATX standard that mobo, case and psu makers had stood by for years by making the cards LONGER than the motherboards!

my current card is an 8800gt, single slot, normal length, just one power connector, not requiring its own psu! and I have no urge to upgrade until something of the same size comes out, or something truly revolutionary.

I'm currently looking to get both a graphic card and new PSU to run it...

I'm thinking that even if 4870 prices drop substantially--I might still save money going with the 5750--because I could get away with a much lower-power system. (rumors say 5770 at 108 watts load and 5750 at 86!)

I am really looking forward to Tom's benchmarks for these cards.

in regards to nvidia and their upcoming fermi card it is mainly focused on GPGPU tasks rather than gaming. as for amd they have all their bases covered across most of the price ranges so i dont see nvidia anytime soon gaining any foothold in the foreseeable future.

im not really pro in this but isnt it a bit expansive for a 128 bit?

good job AMD good job indeed...8800gtx for $600 the GTS for like $400 and the 8600 gts for $200, thank god i dont have to be the one who can only afford the pathetic 8600

am i the only one who likes to see ati on top?
maybe its because when nvidia's on top and dominating they always charge you shittacular prices. Like pink panther said 200 bucks for a 8600. Or getting a performance dominator like the 4870 for 150!!!!!!

Quick feet the new and improved Ati has.............

High to mid to low end in less than three weeks. Nvidia better be coming out with their super-processor type GPU already or before the Xmas break in order to nullify Ati's momentium. It looks like the holiday season is all ATi/AMD's!

Yes, in Australia a few shops have listed it on their websites.

Nvidia had to go back to the drawing board and set their release back 6 months so they can make it better. Better make sure you have plenty of lube ready when they release it, they will stick it to you like they always have.

Price is comparable, performance is likely comparible, ecept for DX11, eyeinfinity, and lower power usage (for those with weaker PSUs that want to go for CF).

I like.
Too bad I want a 5870 2GB instead...

Regardless, nice and cheap, expecially the 5850.

Though, honestly, with the performance of these cards, they somehow feel more along a 56xx line.
The 46xx was comparable with the 38xx, and the 47xx was essentiually the 40nm test run.

The 57xx seems to be on par with the 48xx, so will there even be a 56xx or 53xx?

Waiting for 2GB 5870 as well, 1GB could be low for 2560x1600 and add to it few more monitors and it run out of videomemory at such resolutions.

Anand has already benched the 5770 and 5750. It looks like they're complete duds to be honest. The 128 bit mem bus seems to be a huge bottleneck as the 5770, which in all other specs matches the 4890, can barely keep up with a 4850 in most cases. For the same price you can get a 4870, and it will be a decent bit faster. Seems like a pretty big trade off just for dx11 support.

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3658&p=5

Why is he edilee quote here? He didn't even post on this thread.

I thought I saw it somewhere else but as going to reply... as his nVidia fanboy response was funny. I use BOTH.

To EDILEE: Uh... the 5870 competes against the GTX295. So you calling "nVidia better" is a joke. You're comparing a single-GPU 5970 ($380) to a much larger/hotter/louder GTX 295 ($450~600, with recent price drops) which has TWO GPU chips.

For the under $80 market.. the new GT220 costs more than the 4670 and doesn't even come close to matching the 4670 in performance... and its Nvidias first DX 10.1 card to boot.

Calling nVidia is ALWAYS king is plain silly. The ATI 9700/9800 dominated over the entire GF-5800/5900 series. I own/ed both (I still have the 9800pro). Even against the GF 7800/7900 - the ATI 1900 series was always faster... but nVidia has a better low-med range with their 6600~7600GTs.

When the 8800GTX/GTs ($600/400) came out - first DX10 cards - ATI didn't even come close with their HD2900s... But the $200 8800GT was almost as fast as the $500+ 8800GTX... by that time, ATI's 3800s came out at about $150~200 and the game was on. Then the GTX 260/280s came out - dominated everything. But 1-2 weeks later the 4800s came out, they were a little bit slower... but only costs about $200/$300 (4850/4870) - much cheaper than GTX's $400/600 price tags... ATI had kicked nVidia in the balls - HARD. Within days, the prices of GTX cards came down and the GTX 260/216 came out to compete against the 4850.

Then much of 2008~2009 has been problematic with GeForce failures and nVidia playing product-name games with everyone! 9400 is a 8600, the 9800GT is a renamed 8800GT, etc... about 10 variants of the G92! The 9800s should have been "8900GTS / GTX / GT".. and todays GTX 2xx cards should be "9x00" cards considering ALL 8000/9000/ G200s are DX10 parts. Whatever happened to the GTX 180? What a bloody mess. Won't be surprised if nVidia comes up with a completely new name for their DX11 cards... perhaps "GeForce GTX 680-1T Pro" for all we know.

It's going to be about 6 months before we see a DX11 GeForce card... by then, ATI's going to have their 5890 card... maybe a 5900 for all we know.

Think about this... 5800 is a HUGE success for ATI. The 5800 was a complete failure for nVidia.