ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB: The World's Fastest Graphics Card

[dr cyrax]

Just got this card to my I7 rig clocked to 4,5ghz on a rampage2 extreme motherboerd complemented with 6gig of dominator gt 1600mhz ram.
And guess what......... it freaking rocks!!!
Best regards Dr Cyrax!

 

[Guest]

Don't worry guys.. ATI is just making the most out of the market while,
Nvidia is struggling to make a new GPU to compete with theirs. But when the GTX320, GTX350, GTX360, GTX375, GTX385, GTX395 comes out. Thats when AMD, ATI will drop the bomb. AMD, and ATI will definitely reduce their price, and crush Nvidia to a pulp. lol

 

[Guest]

Don't worry guys.. ATI is just making the most out of the market while,
Nvidia is struggling to make a new GPU to compete with theirs. But when the GTX320, GTX350, GTX360, GTX375, GTX385, GTX395 comes out. Thats when AMD, ATI will drop the bomb. AMD, and ATI will definitely reduce their price, and crush Nvidia to a pulp. lol

I can't wait to see how large the die is for Fermi. I mean ATI has the size/cost ratio almost perfect while nividia's GPUs have been on average 20-30% larger just to compete. IF Nvidia begins to fail I could easily fathom Intel buying them out and it would be the big Two. Talk about some interesting competition then!

 

[wvision70]

I switched between Nvidia and ATI card so often in the last 15 years... I still own a couple of 4970 and an 8800ULTRA, the last one is still performing perfectly at > 40fps in recently released games at HD res in an Athlon 6000.
Nvidia has been the game developer choice for many years, most games uses PhysX effects, and this provide an extra boost for them, like woodoo 3dfx cards in the past.
But 5970 is true power, and I'm really impressed about its stability and power consumption charts.
Just ordered mine.

 

[Guest]

FERMI'S INCOMING, FANBOIS GET READY TO PISS YOU ATI PAJAMAS!

 

[sith_lord]

For me Nvidia still d best, this competition isn't fare because we all now that ati has 40nm fabrication while the released nvidia has only 55nm and a more stream processors than nvidia, this is not fare, I will wait until GTX 480, 470 comes. ATI still Sucks!

Intel Core I7 940
EVGA X58 Classified
Cosair Dominator 2gb x 3
Nvidia GTX 285 (3 Sli)
WD Raptor 300gb (2)

 

[Guest]

"At $370 a piece, the Radeon HD 5970 is faster"
Euh....that must be a typo.....

 

[dman157]

Please stop with all the Phenom and Core i7 stuff. There are have been reviews/articles on this with charts showing performance and the phenom and core i7 match up in frame rates pretty much. Lets not forget ATi is AMD, and AMD is ATi. AMD makes Phenom CPUs, and they also make Radeon Graphics cards. Don't you think they would test their graphics cards on their own CPUs and optimize it the best they can for their own CPUs? They don't just release a card testing it on an Intel CPU. Lets not forget its AMD, they have more AMD CPUs to test with than Intel. They want you to use THEIR CPUs, they want you to use their Dragon platform with the whole AMD GPU, Motherboard, and CPU, so its most likely going to perform amazingly on the Phenoms. Heck this card could probably even make a Pentium 4 more appealing.

 

[nyran125]

i dont think Nividia has made anything truly great since the 8800's. Th e8800's wer good enough to skip the 9000 series and the 200 series.

 

[m3ld4r10n]

did you mean to say '1900x1080' when refering to crisis?
ps you can change the res' by modding your user config in notepad. enjoy!

 

[yshnav]

can ny1 plz help me out???????
i hav a pc wid 1 gb RAM and intel pentium D wid 2.8 GHz.....
PCIE x16 slot
plz comment weder ati radeon HD 5970 Z COMPATIBLE???????

 

[yshnav]

plz reply as soon as possible...............
any body der???????

 

[hannibal]

Not sure, but it should be if your PSU is big enough. This does eat a guite a lot electricity... You should check out PSU reguirement from the ventor.

 

[Keeper]

yshnav,

I suggest that you forget on buying a ati radeon HD 5970 for your system, knowing that you have a pentium D @ 2.8 Ghz...

You'll be CPU limited and you won't be able to make use of all the GPU "horse power".

 

[Guest]

Another thing to consider when buying one of these monsters is the warranty. I got my GTX 295 from EVGA because they have, and honor, a lifetime warranty with the cards. So far, not one company making the 5970 having anything more than a "we will replace if we think you didn't break it" warranty. That includes XFX, Gigabyte, MSI, Asus, and Sapphire. Some only have a 1 year warranty. Asus actually has a three years warranty on parts and labor, but they put you through the gauntlet to prove it was defective. I wouldn't say it's a deal breaker, but when you pay that much for a PC component, you want some assurances.

 

[Guest]

What? Crysis is more than playable with 24fps. It's smooth.

 

[cangelini]

[citation][nom]jodrummersh[/nom]So if you use an ATI card do you lose out on the Physx in the games?[/citation]

You lose out on the ability to accelerate it in hardware, so in essence, yes.

 

[Guest]

What is this guy talking about? Anything over 30FPS is more than playable!

 

[cangelini]

[citation][nom]Slayers17[/nom]What is this guy talking about? Anything over 30FPS is more than playable![/citation]

Hehe, welcome to 2009