Monday, August 24th 2009
AMD Lists Out Cypress Technologies, Tentative Branding?
In a release to its AIB partners, AMD listed out the key features of its high performance GPU in the Evergreen family, codenamed "Cypress". While not getting into the GPU specifications, it lists out the key technologies the GPUs support. It comes as no surprise that AMD will name Cypress-XT and Cypress-Pro as Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5850, a model number scheme that's been running for the past two generations. While product launches, tentatively on September 22, and (p)reviews keep us busy in September, retail availability can be expected only in October, just in time for that of Windows 7.
Sources:
VR-Zone, ATI-Forum
- 1GB GDDR5 memory
- ATI Eyefinity technology with support for up to three displays
- ATI Stream technology
- Designed for DirectCompute 5.0 and OpenCL
- Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
- Compliant with DirectX 11 and earlier revisions,supports OpenGL 3.1
- ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
- ATI Avivo HD video and display technology
- Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay technology
- 2x DL-DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI
- PCI Express 2.0 interface
60 Comments on AMD Lists Out Cypress Technologies, Tentative Branding?
AVT sounds like AVIVO renamed.
DC 5.0/OCL :)
and it seems that some rumours were false, they did keep the 'HD' branding
I heard the new radeon's name will be Radeon 7 (like Windows 7)
AMD already did it once Windows XP -> Athlon XP
if they applied the same tweaks to a 4890, they'd have a monster with ease.
so far no one knows speed, but a 50% boost over a 4870 for the 5870, is quite easy to imagine.
Pure speculation of course, but the rumored die size taken into consideration, its possible.
www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15174/1/
wonder why,
I think that at least a 50% boost is what we will get
so basicly you can run two DVI monitors, DisplayPort Monitor and a HDMI Monitor :cool: every card in evergreen family is twice as fast as the old RV770 generation
And as a High-end card, its use a lot of energy ^^ (I bet, the new 5850 will use the double power)
I'd say 1200SP is more likely... or 2400SP on 5870x2...
I just hope the price is right...
as the power goes i don't see why not have the same or less power consumption than 4800's. 4800's had almost the same power consumption as 3800's (a bit bigger, depending on the model)
I think 5800's are coming to soon to be revolutionary... i hope DX11 delivers better than DX10, and i hope we see some PhysX stuff from ATI!!!
As to physx with dx11 physx is officially dead - developers will not make a game with physx support which only works on nvidia cards when they can make the game with dx11 physics compute which does the same as physx but will work on any dx11 capable card.