dejan said:Some new custom 5870/5970 cards from the CeBIT:
Asus Ares: HD 5970 done right - 2x5870 with 2 GiByte GDDR5 each and custom cooling solution
bee said:3 power leads required, looks like 2 x 8 pin and 1 x 6pin? if that was made by that other graphics company i dont think "done right" would be in any of the replies
Doytch said:I'd hope that most people realise that two GPUs require more power than one GPU....
Minsc said:I read something this morning that the 480GTX would need a 600W PSU to operate a single card (42A on the 12V line), and at least 850W PSU for SLI.
So if this is rumored to run off a 650W PSU that isn't so bad. It does look a little stupid having 6 power lines to power two of these 5970s though.
750-1000 Euros..dejan said:Some new custom 5870/5970 cards from the CeBIT:
Asus Ares: HD 5970 done right - 2x5870 with 2 GiByte GDDR5 each and custom cooling solution
This afternoon we received confirmation that XFX, a division of PINE Technologies, will not be releasing any GeForce GTX 400 series graphics cards to the market when the cards become public next month. XFX was not listed as a launch partner for Fermi and did not issue a press release about the upcoming cards, which might come as a shock to many of our readers as they are one of the largest NVIDIA add-in board (AIB) partners in the world! XFX said that the decision not to carry this series of GF100 graphics card was their decision and that they will still be carrying NVIDIA products. It looks like XFX thinks that the Radeon HD 5000 series of graphics card is the right card for the high-end market. From our conversation with XFX they mentioned that they have "yet to see whether the fermented launch will reach an inglorious anti-climax" and that "they want to "Ferm up to who really has the big Guns". It turns out they do have something special that they have been working on. It turns out that XFX and AMD have partnered together and have designed a limited edition run of Radeon HD 5970 graphics cards with not 2GB, but 4GB of on-board memory.
The XFX Radeon HD 5970 4GB Black Edition video card will be a limited edition card with an estimated hundreds of graphics cards being made. XFX expects to begin selling the cards in about a month for roughly $100 more than a standard Radeon HD 5970, which is $699 to $750 if you can find them. This would make the XFX Radeon HD 5970 4GB Black Edition to be around $799 to $850 based on our assumptions.
XFX told us that this card will have six mini-DisplayPort connectors, which makes it different than any other Radeon HD 5970 4GB design that will be coming out as it will support Eyefinity 6.
The XFX Radeon HD 5970 4GB Black Edition appears to be longer than the standard ATI Radeon HD 5970, which might be an issue for some consumers. The reference design is over a foot long as it measures in at 12.125" in length. With twice the frame buffer it looks like the XFX Radeon HD 5970 4GB is going to be even longer. XFX also stated that they will hand pick each of these cards and that overclockers are going to love them.
XFX also informed Legit Reviews that they have designed a special shipping crate that is the plastic gun that is seen in the image above. When you get one of these limited edition graphics cards it will come in the spiffy little carrying case that looks like an FNH P90 at first glance.
The last picture that XFX sent us of the Radeon HD 5970 4GB card is this one of the dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors, which was expected as this cards dual GPUs and 4GB of memory will need some juice, but as we saw in our GeForce GTX 480 review a dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970 uses less power than a single-GPU GeForce GTX 480 video card.
To confirm XFX's story we contacted several sources inside AMD and were told that this card goes by the code name Petunia and will not only be carried by XFX, but by other vendors as well. This makes sense as ASUS recently unveiled the ARES, which is basically the same thing with a different cooler back at CeBIT 2010 at the start of this month.
XFX unloaded a bomb this afternoon by announcing they were going to skip launching any GeForce GTX 470/480 graphics cards with the Fermi architecture and that they were going to be releasing a high-end Radeon HD 5970 that is unlike anything else on the market. It looks like things just got a little more interesting in the battle for high-end gaming graphics cards!
DieH@rd said:Jesus, we are back to 800$ cards.
Bear in mind this is for a highly specialised subset of consumer. XFX are only making these in the hundreds so they are well aware that 99% of the PC userbase will not need or want this card.DieH@rd said:Jesus, we are back to 800$ cards.
Thank you. And thats not a P90.IMACOMPUTA said:*barfs at the retarded p90 "carrying case"*
pc = shooterbox confirmed!mr stroke said:the gun :lol
Kaako said:God dayumn. Earlier in the year I was thinking to myself when I would see a consumer 4gig gpu but I didn't expect it this soon. :O
I really wanna see what this bad boy can do though...specs ain't nothing w/out real world performance.
Southern Islands (SI) is a 40nm family, and from early information, it looks to be a hybrid between Evergreen and Northern Islands. The architectural details are quite slim now, but it looks like ATI took the uncore from NI and put the shaders from Evergreen on it. Think of it as taking the parts that were done and available, and putting them together.
Because it is the only option at this point, SI will be built on TSMC's 40nm process. This is good because it is known, and ready, pulling in the timetables. Low risk means low chance of problems and quick time to market. Expect SI sometime this fall. Rumors abound that some family members have already taped out, but that is far from confirmed.
In any case, ATI will likely have a fully refreshed lineup before Nvidia has its Fermi GF100 GTX4xx line fully out the door. It looks like this fall's GPU battle will be more of a howitzer versus pen knife match rather than a duel.
isn't XFX the company that Nvidia isn't shipping Fermins to due to some shit and something something nvidia is bleedy little bitches?Technosteve said:they might as well market it as a penis enlarger, but yeah that's a fucking shock from XFX since i owned two nvidia xfx cards before my sapphire ati card. My guess is that the margins for the Fermis are low and the supplies are low. With XFX warranty i don't think they can afford to replace any cards that go bad in the field.... and they have a pretty awesome warranty.
irfan said:Ignoring the noise in the article;
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/03/30/atis-next-generation-outed/
Richard Huddy basically said that in one of his recent interviews, that they'll have the top performing solution for basically most of this year.brain_stew said:Seems like a smart enough strategy, it'd basically give AMD a clean run at the holiday sales again. Their shaders always seemed pretty efficiently designed to me so those changes could be just the boost they need to beat out Fermi across the board without increasing the transistor count or power envelope too much.
I'd wager that even Nvidia would move to GF if;brain_stew said:If TSMC keep fucking up like this I can't see ATI sticking around for long, surely the first GPUs manufactured at Global Foundries can't be too far off?
irfan said:Richard Huddy basically said that in one of his recent interviews, that they'll have the top performing solution for basically most of this year.
However the recent rumors cropping up (about ATI next gen) are all over the place. Supposedly same number of shaders but improved geometry performance, die is slightly larger than Cypress and overall performance is about 10-20% over GTX480.
AstroLad said:I have a GTX 295 that's OC'd pretty hard. When is it going to be worth upgrading for me? Not hugely concerned with the DX11 stuff yet.
AstroLad said:I have a GTX 295 that's OC'd pretty hard. When is it going to be worth upgrading for me? Not hugely concerned with the DX11 stuff yet.
dreamer3kx said:Wow these cards are way too much for me, my last card was a 3870 which was considered "best bang for buck" at the time, anything that I should wait for that's in this category from ATI or Nvidia?
dreamer3kx said:Wow these cards are way too much for me, my last card was a 3870 which was considered "best bang for buck" at the time, anything that I should wait for that's in this category from ATI or Nvidia?
AstroLad said:I have a GTX 295 that's OC'd pretty hard. When is it going to be worth upgrading for me? Not hugely concerned with the DX11 stuff yet.
Radeon HD 4800 2,142,500
Geforce 8800 2,002,500
Geforce 9800 1,567,500
Geforce GTX200 1,977,500
Radeon HD 5800 480,000
Radeon HD 5700 470,000
I'm no gun genius, but I've played quite a few FPS's and that looks like a p90 to me.derFeef said:Thank you. And thats not a P90.
evlcookie said:It looks like the 2GB version of the 5870 doesn't do a heck of a lot better in performance compared to the 1GB version as seen from anandtech's 5870 2GB 6 port review.
http://anandtech.com/show/3621/amds-radeon-hd-5870-eyefinity-6-edition-reviewed
And 6 monitors seems a little crazy. As they mention in the last paragraph, a 720p projector with a screen or wall painted could be a better solution if you are a gamer.
evlcookie said:It looks like the 2GB version of the 5870 doesn't do a heck of a lot better in performance compared to the 1GB version as seen from anandtech's 5870 2GB 6 port review.
http://anandtech.com/show/3621/amds-radeon-hd-5870-eyefinity-6-edition-reviewed
And 6 monitors seems a little crazy. As they mention in the last paragraph, a 720p projector with a screen or wall painted could be a better solution if you are a gamer.
Dash said:So how likely do you guys think we'll see the 6xxx series of cards from ATI in the fall? I've been hearing rumors about possible delays until Q1 2011, or that it will just be a refresh of Evergreen. If this is the case, I'd like to just get a 5870 today instead of wait any longer.
Minsc said:Yea, the whole 2GB vs 1GB thing is pretty overblown for the most part, all the benches I've seen have shown there to be no difference. Maybe someone has a dozen or two benches where it shows otherwise.
Dash said:So how likely do you guys think we'll see the 6xxx series of cards from ATI in the fall? I've been hearing rumors about possible delays until Q1 2011, or that it will just be a refresh of Evergreen. If this is the case, I'd like to just get a 5870 today instead of wait any longer.
spazzfish said:Here :
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/radeon-5870-eyefinity6,review-31850-11.html
Look at the final chart. The benefit with the extra ram on these cards is seen when cranking up the AA.
There are times when 1 gig does become a bottleneck. Depends on the game and your monitor max res + AA etc.Minsc said:Yea, the whole 2GB vs 1GB thing is pretty overblown for the most part, all the benches I've seen have shown there to be no difference. Maybe someone has a dozen or two benches where it shows otherwise.