Friday, September 25th 2009
AMD Radeon HD 5870 X2 Pictured
Behold AMD's, and soon aimed to be the industry's most powerful graphics accelerator: Radeon HD 5870 X2 "Hemlock". Armed with two "Cypress" Radeon HD 5870 graphics processors, this dual-GPU monstrosity packs twice the shader compute power. From the looks of it, the card is slightly longer than its single-GPU sibling from the series, and is better ventilated, although the cooler design more or less resembles it. It draws its power from one 6+2 pin and one 6 pin PCI-E power connectors, just like two of its ancestors in the R700 and R680. Listed for pre-order on a European online store, a Radeon HD 5870 X2 by Club3D is priced at 677 EUR (incl. applicable taxes, 568.9 EUR excluding).
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Xtreme Systems Forums
145 Comments on AMD Radeon HD 5870 X2 Pictured
This is going to be the fastest thing around, but unless I'm really wrong (and I hope I am), it'll cost like $650. :P
If you can afford this card, You can afford a bigger case.
5850 - $270
5870 - $360
5870 2 GB - $405
5850 X2 - $445
5870 X2 - $535
5870 X2 4 GB - $595
Basing this on the differences between between cards on newegg in previous gens and the difference between cards of varying memory... and the differences between suggested retail and actual retail... and the rate at which new cards lower in initial price.
But would definitely like to see benchmarks on this baby in comparison to Nvidia :p
No worries, though - I've had a case in the works for a couple of months now :p
These things are monstrous, though - I wonder how when they're going to have to start packing PCB support stands with these cards :laugh:
The reason i like full tower cases is so i have more room in the case, better airflow and large/more components ( cpu heatsink, fans, large gfx cards, crossfire,SLI and better overclock )
I guess im an enthusiast so i go with the case to go with being an enthusiast.
Although it may fit in my case, the price tag if correct would weigh it down too much for me, i just cant bring my self to pay that much for one component.
Big reason why I'm working on another case - a massive cube instead of a tower. Height will be a little shorter than my current CMS 830, but overall width will be equivalent to my current case depth . . . in essence, think of two towers that have been merged side-to-side. Opens up a lot of space to re-arrange and better organize everything.
Anyhow - I wasn't originally planning on moving to the HD5000 series just yet, but the performance so far, and the DX11 is very nice - two 5870x2s paired together should be more than capable of holding me over for years to come . . . my current pair of 70x2s will be moved to a secondary rig . . .
As you can see there is plenty of room in an ATCS840 with an 5870 installed.
I don't give a damn about the 5870X2, but the 5870 is undisputablly too long.
Btw, the get a bigger case logic only works, because you are living in the USA where producing waste is a right by law almost. :slap:
The flat I am living in Hong Kong costed $8000HK thats $1000 per square feet, now getting a new case if fine, but getting a new flat is not fine. :shadedshu
Most importantly, these cards are well over the limit of CEB boards (dual cpu boards) which is 10.5", ATi can't force their customers to get new cases everytime they release a new card.
At lease, nV manage to keep their cards at 10.5" at all times.
Long ass card is long ass, no matter you an fit it or not.
People complain when there is a need to complain.
i learn something with ati, never belive what they benchs shows before launch the product. happens with 2*** series, 3*** series and phenom 1 amd processors
This is just ow business goes.
Same goes for Intel and nVidia, they always says their products are the best.
Who in their right mind will say their products sucks so plz don't but them? :slap:
There is no point is poking at AMD's prior products, they are history.
Nobody is forcing you to buy the card OR upgrade your case.
Ooooooh that takes me back... In a gut-wrenching kind of way.