Nice post, seems the 4870 is really impressing people. It has some solid frames on alot of the games i play
It seems they could make them better, as mentioned in the article:
"This is the tell tale sign of excessive leakage (anyone else thinking about the Prescott days?) and while it doesn't impact performance it makes things hot."
Get the wattage down, get the heat down and this would be even more attractable. Have to admit, great job to AMD! Just get your CPU's back up to spec.
It seems to me:
1. A company releases the fastest product
2. The company goes lazy, keeps producing same spec products
3. The competitor comes with the latest fastest product and steals the market
You can see this with AMD (Athlon 64 series) over taken by Intel (Core 2 series) and then AMD is fighting back (x4 series).
Also
Ati had a good postiton in the market, ran down by nVidia (8800 series) and now ATi/AMD are making there comes back while nVidia makes silly priced cards and gone lazy with there development.
Maybe it just takes AMD two attempts,
-3800 series then the "4800 series rules"
-Phenom then the "xxxxxx should rule"
It seems to be a never ending circle! Some of you are going to think im barking :\
Great for development though!
Kinda gone off topic there
sorry
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