ATI Radeon HD 5870: DirectX 11, Eyefinity, And Serious Speed

[LORD_ORION]

Oh wait... I was supposed to go with the "this is so shiny" crowd rather than have an opinion? Let me try again.

"The 5000 series is clearly awesome. Buy it ASAP." You can quote me on that if it makes you feel better.

Now...WTF! Since when is saying, (paraphrasing here) "I don't belive the inital price justify the performance compare to DX10 cards, wait for prices to come down" grounds to get a post deleted?

I have been on Toms for a decade now, and I have to say WTF? Do you now get a bounty for deleting posts on a launch day that aren't glowing "OMG I want the product to make my babies!" posts? Or has moderator IQ just dropped so far that you can't tell a valid point from a troll nowadays?

Gen Y'ers and BabyBoomers... I tell ya... you are going to get us all vaprorized by unimpressed aliens...

 

[jonyb222]

ok, but can it run WoW maxed out on six screens? (probly can but I still wanna know the number)

 

[cangelini]

[citation][nom]LORD_ORION[/nom]Oh wait... I was supposed to go with the "this is so shiny" crowd rather than have an opinion? Let me try again."The 5000 series is clearly awesome. Buy it ASAP." You can quote me on that if it makes you feel better.Now...WTF! Since when is saying, (paraphrasing here) "I don't belive the inital price justify the performance compare to DX10 cards, wait for prices to come down" grounds to get a post deleted?I have been on Toms for a decade now, and I have to say WTF? Do you now get a bounty for deleting posts on a launch day that aren't glowing "OMG I want the product to make my babies!" posts? Or has moderator IQ just dropped so far that you can't tell a valid point from a troll nowadays? Gen Y'ers and BabyBoomers... I tell ya... you are going to get us all vaprorized by unimpressed aliens...[/citation]

Who's deleting posts? Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion! Viva America! =)

 

[jonyb222]

Scratch what I just said, can it play it on 24 displays?!

 

[CorbinDallas]

"As a result, you get just over an inch and a half of ventilation for hot air. That’s not enough, so ATI also allows air to exhaust out the top of the board, into your chassis."

AAAAARRRGGGGHHHH!

Nooooo!

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Geez! They used an Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition Bloomfield overclocked to 4 Ghz for the benchmarks. I wonder what the power consumption would be for the more afrfordable Core i7 920.

 

[M3d]

Can't wait for the 5870 2GB. I hope they don't place too much of a premium on it.

 

[scook9]

the price on this new card is blowing my mind right now.....i am almost tempted to try selling my 2x GTX 275 and getting 1 (2nd down the road maybe )

What was your full system power draw? As your system is close to mine I have to start planning haha (ONLY got a Corsair 850HX right now)

 

[wh3resmycar]

i believe we're in a period where the softwares are saturated, on dx10 to say the least, im pretty excited how this ati badass performs on a dx11 game.

 

[sonofliberty08]

did u try to play it on 3 monitor ? or the eyefinity 6 monitor setup .

 

[DjEaZy]

... do AMD the honer, and put this card to test in a AMD 'Dragon' system... ok... the Phenom II 965 performs not like i5/i7, but AMD try's very hard... and anyway, they offer they solutions in platforms...

 

[cangelini]

[citation][nom]sonofliberty08[/nom]did u try to play it on 3 monitor ? or the eyefinity 6 monitor setup .[/citation]

Yes, discussed on the Eyefinity page, with benchmarks!

 

[DjEaZy]

... and exsquize me, for my bad language, but i think intel's larrabee gonna suck monkeyballs... becouse the competition between AMD/ATi and nVidia in graphics front gonna bee hot... and the performance in cards gonna skyrocket... so there is gonna be no need for 80core tflop cpu and larrabee... the gpu will do it all...

 

[kelfen]

[citation][nom]annisman[/nom]Oops, who am I kidding ? I just ordered 2 5870's. One Sapphire, and one HIS, seeing as how they limit you to one per customer.[/citation]
I had a good laugh! reading that

 

[1ce]

Very nice card....I'm impressed by the crossfire numbers. I hope the 2 gig version doesn't take too long to arrive.

 

[overshocks]

very nice review, 5870 is the best. go ATI

 

[anamaniac]

[citation][nom]jonyb222[/nom]ok, but can it run WoW maxed out on six screens? (probly can but I still wanna know the number)[/citation]
6x30" monitors at 2560x1600 max settings 60FPS...
[citation][nom]jonyb222[/nom]Scratch what I just said, can it play it on 24 displays?![/citation]
24 displays... well you'd need 4GB per card and 4 cards in crosffire likely...
[citation][nom]DjEaZy[/nom]... do AMD the honer, and put this card to test in a AMD 'Dragon' system... ok... the Phenom II 965 performs not like i5/i7, but AMD try's very hard... and anyway, they offer they solutions in platforms...[/citation]
I agree.
May as well find out.
Two 5870s in crossfire, with the best phenom.
Be nice to see, as something like that looks mighty interesting to me.
[citation][nom]joeman42[/nom]Must...Resist...No, wait. I don't have to anymore. I surrender... I WIN!!![/citation]
=D
I must resist... until DX11 games, optimized drivers, watercooling, and a 2GB (or hopefully 4GB) version.
Who needs to pay rent when you can buy two of these?

Chris Angelini, yet again, amazing article. Keeping it professional yet interesting as always.
Now, give us overclocking results.
Just go to your local metal shop and give them the dimensions to make a proper bracket to watercool the bad baby.

 

[Guest]

What is this? No way to test Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master? Oh.. how about YOUR PowerDVD 9? Oh.. I forget.. the trick lies on "intentionally" unable to deliver the undecoded Dolby TrueHD. No OpenCL test? DAMN.. Even nVidia has test to measure DirectCompute. And OpenCL is been out there for a long time. AMD even talks about OpenCL 1.1. And for GOD SAKE, it is open.

I think Toms had improved, and boy how I am wrong. If you still lurking here, you'll be as stupid as the reviewers. I've been switching to anand for all these years, and believe me.. Head to anand, and you'll see EVERYTHING that tom said as "lack of ISV". From enabled undecoded protected Audio path performance to DirectCompute comparison from nVidia 295 to 58xx.

I am wondering. "lack of ISV", or "lack of will"? "lack of ISV" is big bad BS lie. Other than Eyefinity supported by only one game, everything is right there. Seriously, you'll find better review on any other site other than toms. I am done here.

 

[overshocks]

[citation][nom]what is this lack of ISV bullshit[/nom]What is this? No way to test Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master? Oh.. how about YOUR PowerDVD 9? Oh.. I forget.. the trick lies on "intentionally" unable to deliver the undecoded Dolby TrueHD. No OpenCL test? DAMN.. Even nVidia has test to measure DirectCompute. And OpenCL is been out there for a long time. AMD even talks about OpenCL 1.1. And for GOD SAKE, it is open.I think Toms had improved, and boy how I am wrong. If you still lurking here, you'll be as stupid as the reviewers. I've been switching to anand for all these years, and believe me.. Head to anand, and you'll see EVERYTHING that tom said as "lack of ISV". From enabled undecoded protected Audio path performance to DirectCompute comparison from nVidia 295 to 58xx.I am wondering. "lack of ISV", or "lack of will"? "lack of ISV" is big bad BS lie. Other than Eyefinity supported by only one game, everything is right there. Seriously, you'll find better review on any other site other than toms. I am done here.[/citation]

lol what a fan boy.

 

[lorik]

you dont need monster psu's a 500 watt is suficient ,as a matter of fact that is the only reason im buying a 5870 over a 295

 

[climber]

I am anxious to see manifold.net utilizing ATI's firestream or OpenCL for GPGPU computing on it's software. Currently they only use Nvidia's CUDA. They've achieved 5 Tflops of single precision performance for GIS using 4 x 295 GTX cards, but they'd probably only have 300-400 Gflops double precision performance, imagine 4 x 5870X2's, each card with possibly 5.4Tflops single precision performance and 1.66 Tflops double precision. I can't believe the possibilities of a 20 Tflop desktop GIS workstation. Think back 10 years and see the price of a 20 Tflop supercomputer server farm...

 

[magicandy]

OK Nvidia your turn now. Better be good. The GTX 280 is really starting to chug with 3D Vision. I'd love to get this card if only 3D Vision wasn't so damn proprietary =/

 

[crisisavatar]

Awesome card but I think is a bit on the expensive side right now. I will personally wait for it to drop to like 320 or just go ahead and buy the x2 version if it retails for 550.

 

[masterjaw]

It's a crazy ass card but still in its premature form. More optimizations and imporvements will come as the 5800 line-up is completed. Good job ATI.

 

[MrMaestro]

This has got me all excited. Time to start saving for a new rig, I think. Great article, Tom's needs more in-depth analyses like this one.