4870 review!!! Hope its real

[xx12amanxx]

???

I was holding my spot..not really i just wanted to read before i posted.


what say you?

 

[marvelous211]

ATI is back with a toilet flush on Nvidia.

 

[marvelous211]

I am going out on a limb and going to say that I believe the review. I thought it was very well done. I now know what card I am going to spring for this summer. Thx for the link jay!

Best,

3Ball

There's nothing you shouldn't believe about expreview. They are a major site in China and here in US.

 

[romulus47plus1]

I was holding my spot..not really i just wanted to read before i posted.


what say you?

Just wondering what's with the '.'

 

[xx12amanxx]

ATI is back with a toilet flush on Nvidia.

Dude that is sig material right there!!

lol

 

[derek85]

Now I am sort of pissed that I bought the 4850 with those numbers... I still haven't received it yet.. but by the looks of it I probably will return it for the 4870.... 4850 = %40 faster than my 8800GTS320 .... 4870 = %30 faster than the 4850 .... 4870 = %70 faster than 8800GTS320 .... "drools" although does 30% justify the $100 price increase.. I guess if you already have a half decent card.. DAMMIT!

(stay tuned for my mega awesome super-duper review on this card the day it come in) ..Picture Galore..

More like 82%

(1.3x1.4 - 1=0.82)

I guess I will wait for a non-reference design to come out, the stock one is indeed scary.... but good performance!! Now I only need to know how R700 performs....

 

[jtabler]

From what I gather, these will be way too hot for xfire without an aftermarket cooler. For example, the one review used a thermaltake $50 to get the card down to normal ranges.

ATI was touting these as having more processing power per watt than the nvidia cards, but something seems messed up with the power consumption and resulting heat.

 

[terror112]

Well for me I decided to just stick with my 4850 that I ordered and maby xfire it with a 4870 down the road, maby with my next upgrade to nehalem. The price cant be beat though.

 

[doomsdaydave11]

I was just about to order a 4850.... looks like I'm gonna be saving up a bit longer. I want that thang. GDDR5, Dual-Slot cooler, cutting edge.

Nice find.

 

[doomsdaydave11]

hold on....

that can't be.

 

[SpinachEater]

From what I gather, these will be way too hot for xfire without an aftermarket cooler. For example, the one review used a thermaltake $50 to get the card down to normal ranges.

It has a dual slot cooler as stock that pushes the hot air out of the case. If it was single slot I would be concerned but the case temps should be as good as or if not better than what they are if you had 4850 in xfire.

Well for me I decided to just stick with my 4850 that I ordered and maby xfire it with a 4870 down the road, maby with my next upgrade to nehalem. The price cant be beat though.

+1 I am excited to see where NV and ATI settle on prices. For the first circus act though, prices might be stacked for the first couple of weeks until stocks build up.

http://www.techsourcepro.com/sections/cart/index.php
Not sure who these @ssclowns are but $457 better not stick.

 

[harmattan]

Their are some "substantiated" guesses around the web for 4870 512mb for the first few weeks is around $370, and hardly any of them to boot. In any circumstance, these will be available at a high premium for all of 5 seconds after launch.

And again, we probably won't see the 1024mb version for a long while.

 

[DarthPiggie]

This is very exciting, suffice to say, Nvidia really f*ed this one up. ATI pulled a rabbit out of its ass. It took everyone by surprised, no one was expecting 800SPs, which must account for the performance better than the 260 for 100$ less, there must be some catch. I usually dont become enamored with hardware, but this 4870 is one exception. Great card though, I was not expecting such performance. looks like Nv made the 2900 mistake. BTW, anyone have rv740 benchmakrs, they seem impressive from what i;ve heard.

 

[DarthPiggie]

hold on....
http://en.expreview.com/img/review/hd4800/crysis_02.png
that can't be.

whats the matter, do you detect some sort of incosistency? or are you awed up?

 

[L1qu1d]

benchmarks are very conflicting these days...

 

[speedbird]

Nvidia's New cards are a complete Ripp-Off

 

[marvelous211]

This is very exciting, suffice to say, Nvidia really f*ed this one up. ATI pulled a rabbit out of its ass. It took everyone by surprised, no one was expecting 800SPs, which must account for the performance better than the 260 for 100$ less, there must be some catch. I usually dont become enamored with hardware, but this 4870 is one exception. Great card though, I was not expecting such performance. looks like Nv made the 2900 mistake. BTW, anyone have rv740 benchmakrs, they seem impressive from what i;ve heard.

Although 800SP helped, the biggest difference on the RV770 is 40TMU at high clock speeds compared to GT200. It's FP16, FP32 fillrate higher than GT200 although it's bilinear fillrate is much lower.

 

[jtabler]

It has a dual slot cooler as stock that pushes the hot air out of the case. If it was single slot I would be concerned but the case temps should be as good as or if not better than what they are if you had 4850 in xfire.

I was thinking of the 4850 review I read earlier and then this review mentioning the heat. So, for the reference card are you agreeing that a xfire is not possible with two 4850 stock cooling, but you think it will be possible with two 4870 stock cooling and factory settings?

I'm hoping to see some new reviews on both cards after some more testing and hopeful software updates for the fan controls.

 

[doomsdaydave11]

whats the matter, do you detect some sort of incosistency? or are you awed up?

Playable framerates on High in crysis with an HD4870 at 1680x1050 with 4xAA. :O. I'm awed up alright. I hope this is legit.

 

[dos1986]

They use a QX9650 @ 4Ghz on a Maximus Extreme board, 95% of ous dont have that power

 

[SpinachEater]

I was thinking of the 4850 review I read earlier and then this review mentioning the heat. So, for the reference card are you agreeing that a xfire is not possible with two 4850 stock cooling, but you think it will be possible with two 4870 stock cooling and factory settings?

I'm hoping to see some new reviews on both cards after some more testing and hopeful software updates for the fan controls.

It isn't impossible, people are doing 4850 xfire right now. You just need to make sure the cooling in your case is up to par so the rest of your temps don't get out of control. For the dual slot GPUs where the air gets kicked out instead of lingering in the case, you don't have to worry as much.

 

[doomsdaydave11]

They use a QX9650 @ 4Ghz on a Maximus Extreme board, 95% of ous dont have that power

Just noticed that. Looks like I will be OC'ing the shiz outta my e8400.

EDIT:

I hope that has something to do with that 4Ghz quad. That's ridiculous. My Arctic Silver 5 'modded' 7900GS only hits 75ºC under full load. Looks like I'm going to be ordering a lot of cooling fans lol.

 

[The_Blood_Raven]

They use a QX9650 @ 4Ghz on a Maximus Extreme board, 95% of ous dont have that power

A heavily OC'd dual core should be close to that.

 

[crosshares]

This was well worth the wait for me, can't wait till tomorrow.

Hopefully AMD will pull yet another rabbit out of its ass and surprise us with the 1GB 4870, at launch.

 

[doomsdaydave11]

This was well worth the wait for me, can't wait till tomorrow.

Hopefully AMD will pull yet another rabbit out of its ass and surprise us with the 1GB 4870, at launch.

Is it okay for me to say AMD4LYFE!!!1!!11!!!111 yet?