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

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I will be fine with my GTX 285s in SLi for now. I think I will most likely wait until the second 'generation' of these new cards are out before buying. By then there will be a lot more use for the functionality of the new features.
 
Yea, the GTX285 I bought in July will work just fine, and I'll get something this good (or better) for the i7 I'll build maybe next year.

I am reconsidering learning CUDA now that it looks like a standard way to do things is almost shipping. I sure hope it does work OK with a card that USED to be the fastest...
 
[citation][nom]idgarad[/nom]What no Lynnfield? Once again, just like every other site we get little information if this card is worth anything to the majority of computer owners. Does it pin an x8 pci-e? Does it take a 16x slot to full utilize? Can an Core2 push enough data via DDR2 or DDR3 to fuel the card to perform? You gave us nothing but the talking points ATI and NVIDIA hand out already. Worthless. Next time give us some actual reference points besides the usual card swaps. I mean the simplest of solutions is to use the MEDIAN computer system on the market as the base system config and then at least you can tell us "It's worth the money if you have X system".[/citation]
Give the guy a break, he can't do everything at once.
 
Time for an upgrade is coming....any one care 2 buy my 260 cards? lol
Any way...that was interesting, fortunately the battle is never over, i wonder what Nvidia will come up with next.
 
Sweet card, Since I'm not a huge gamer I'll probably go for the 5850 if it gets a favorable review.
This makes me wish ATI was this competitive with Intel in the CPU race. This is a great example of how competition is a wonderful thing for the consumer.
 
Good card but not as fast as the spec would indicate; it is not twice as fast as 4870 (limited by 1GB ram?). ATI needs to work on its Crossfire driver, SLI scales slightly better.

Overall, I recommend everyone to wait for 5870 2GB and Nvidia's 300 series before making a purchase. 2GB flagships dueling it out and $200ish 5850 & GTX 360 sounds great.
 
I am curious to to see the new Nvidia card and his price. I hope that the competition will decrease the prices.
 
Yeah, I'm going to wait to see if NVIDIA can come up with something to compete first (still surviving with my 8800 GTS 320MB for now). If not, at least there's a chance the new NVIDIA card may cause ATI to lower the price a little. We'll see what happens.
 


Definitely a good follow-up story idea. For the review, however, I wanted to give the card as much headroom as possible, meaning an overclocking Core i7 on an X58, specifically to *not* bottleneck the board and artificially limit performance versus competing cards :)
 
I've been a hardcore Nvidia fan. But I have to say that ATIs newest offerings, coupled with Nvidia's perplexing attitude towards adoption of DirectX 11, has got me definitely thinking about switching teams.
 
[citation][nom]cangelini[/nom]Definitely a good follow-up story idea. For the review, however, I wanted to give the card as much headroom as possible, meaning an overclocking Core i7 on an X58, specifically to *not* bottleneck the board and artificially limit performance versus competing cards[/citation]

Which again, for a first review why not use the median. From an information standpoint, if I have say 4000 audience members I woudl tailor my first outing to meet the majority of listeners circumstances rather then an elite few. It would strike me from a review standpoint of Median -> High End -> Low End shoot outs. Otherwise your article gets lost in a sea of reviews from Tech Report, A-tech, etc. The reivew doesn't provide anything that every other review does. What can you do review wise to set yourself apart from all the others? You can do better then this for a launch article.
 
Wakey wakey Nvidia >>> Get your stall out and announce your G300 chip, as the AMD fire that is raging needs some water on it if it isn't to spread to your market share!
 
ATI has done it again! This is quite impressive! Bravo to ATI! This is two flagship cards that have done extremely well for launch. Now, keep it in supply, keep the price as is, and wait to see how the GTX300 series does.
 
Right now, I would like to see a technology that manifests the convergence for multihead support (Eyefinity?) and the 3D vision that NVidia is trying to sell.

To AMD/ATI & NVidia: Do this, and then lets talk pricing.

At the moment, I use 3X monitors at 1280X1024 (3840x1024), and use an 8800GTX + 9600GT to drive them. I own HAWX and use an application called SoftTH ( http://www.kegetys.net/SoftTH/ ) to achieve triple-head support (under DirectX 9). With the exception of the VGA card purchase, I did not have to spend money to get this working. It works very well!

I have to admit, it is addictive. Does it justify switching to AMD/ATI? I am not sure.
 


Because what you're proposing would only be useful to the targeted audience, anyone above or below this group would be left out since you won't have a baseline (non-bottlenecked results.) In other words, when you bottleneck the card in every test there's no way to tell by how much you bottlenecked it, so you don't know how much of a difference a weaker or stronger system would make compared to the test system.
 
I have not been terribly pleased with nVidia cards sinces my first sli system which contained two 7800 GTX's. I think it's about time I gave ATI a try.
 
Looks good. I love that they keep it in a reasonable price range for the performance.

Competition is a good thing for the consumer. Nice work ATI.
 
The Eyefinity reminds me of something I'd use to run one of those mega sized computers from the Batman cartoons of the 90's with the dozen or so monitors he had. Now you too can have a computer room like a comic book superhero!
 
"Venerable Crysis—the game we suspect nobody really plays any more, yet everyone looks to for performance evaluation, even today."

Not very pleased with this line. The game sell over 2 millions and I still play Crysis Wars almost every day (near to 270 hours and rising).

The 5870 is a masterful piece of hardware in in terms of features, but not in the brute force department. It doubles the 4870 stats but barely increases in 1/3 the performance in Crysis. I expect more. Aside from this, DX 11 support + Eyefinity + HD audio + 2 DVI and HDMI direct ports makes the card a perfect piece to my HTPC in the W7 launchsip.
 
"Venerable Crysis—the game we suspect nobody really plays any more, yet everyone looks to for performance evaluation, even today."

Not very pleased with this line. The game sell over 2 millions and I still play Crysis Wars almost every day (near to 270 hours and rising).

The 5870 is a masterful piece of hardware in in terms of features, but not in the brute force department. It doubles the 4870 stats but barely increases in 1/3 the performance in Crysis. I expect more. Aside from this, DX 11 support + Eyefinity + HD audio + 2 DVI and HDMI direct ports makes the card a perfect piece to my HTPC in the W7 launchsip.
 
I'm actually curious about games such as Mass Effect at 2560 x 1600 highest settings. The 4870 was not able to handle this, but the 4870x2 was. Is there a comparable engine in the games tested above?
 
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