Monday, August 24th 2009
Radeon HD 5870 Aggressively Priced: Report
According to a fresh report by Donanim Haber, AMD's next performance graphics accelerator, the Radeon HD 5870, codenamed "Cypress" is expected to be aggressively priced, at US $299. At that price, it intends to be highly competitive against GeForce GTX 285 from NVIDIA. The secret-sauce behind the price could be the 40 nm fab process on which the GPU is being built, which allows upping transistor counts while maintaining significantly smaller die-sizes compared to 55 nm.
There is a great deal of uncertainty surrounding the specifications of the GPU, including what level of performance with existing application could it end up offering. Some sources, such as ChipHell, which are one of the first to leak pictures of components related to various Evergreen family products claim the Cypress GPU to have an almost 100% increase in stream processor counts compared to RV770, while others remain conservative expecting it to be around 50%. With this kind of a pricing, Cypress could trigger market-wide changes in GPU pricing, if it ends up with a good price/performance ratio at $299.
Cypress is expected to be launched on 22 September, close to two weeks after the company unveils the Evergreen family of DirectX 11 compliant GPUs on September 10. Market availability is expected in October. In related news from the same report, the enthusiast-grade accelerator that uses two of these GPUs, codenamed "Hemlock", is expected to be out in November.
There is a great deal of uncertainty surrounding the specifications of the GPU, including what level of performance with existing application could it end up offering. Some sources, such as ChipHell, which are one of the first to leak pictures of components related to various Evergreen family products claim the Cypress GPU to have an almost 100% increase in stream processor counts compared to RV770, while others remain conservative expecting it to be around 50%. With this kind of a pricing, Cypress could trigger market-wide changes in GPU pricing, if it ends up with a good price/performance ratio at $299.
Cypress is expected to be launched on 22 September, close to two weeks after the company unveils the Evergreen family of DirectX 11 compliant GPUs on September 10. Market availability is expected in October. In related news from the same report, the enthusiast-grade accelerator that uses two of these GPUs, codenamed "Hemlock", is expected to be out in November.
197 Comments on Radeon HD 5870 Aggressively Priced: Report
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Me wants benchmarks!! :banghead:
you pay alot more. do people there pay cash for it?
My 4850s are feeling aged...I have had 1 for a year and the other for 6 months (xfire ;) )...time for new toys. :D
Edit: It also isn't about saving the money...I could afford them, I just know that I can get the EXACT same cards 4-5 months after launch for 60-70% of the launch date price.
You will not see real graphics improvements for years to come, i can stake on it, consoles are holding these cards back, game developers aren't writing codes anymore aimed at PC, I'm still playing CSS and battlefield for god sakes. all you're getting is fps, what game today can't hit over 60fps with a gtx260 and a quad.
I just got the new Wolfenstein, and I had to turn on vsycnc because I was getting such high framerates it was tearing like mad. Probably the lack of AA option had a lot to do with it, but still.... :shadedshu But that just goes to show how any high end card made in the past year is going to destroy a console port. Developers just don't want to put effort into adding more effects for a smaller market...
Thus we have Crysis, probably still the most demanding PC game, and how old is it now? ...
nvidia is german
usa is all of the above. "they" work for the "greeddy" americans. (thats all i meant.)
I have to enable Vsync with GRID @ 1680 16XQCSAA or else it plays like rubbish with massive amount of frame tear, a upgrade in Graphics card is just not something i need now.
And you would be surprise how many dumb noobs are saying they can't wait for Windows 7 with DX11.Right on, americans are a greedy consuming set.
As for price, its the same thing they're doing with the new PS3 slim.
299 US
299 Euro
as the guys over invisiblewalls are saying Europeans are getting hoes'd left and right.
P.S. You can use multi-quote to respond to mutiple posts with a single response.
That is neither here nor there. I probably won't be pleased with anything said about the 58xx series cards
until I see some benchmarks.
...but that also might mean it sucks/not competitive with NVIDIA cards.
USA
founded by former AMD and Sun employees
I know England is expensive, but seriously, don't resort to making it up.
The 3870 was $299 + VAT basically. As was the 4850 and 4870.
When the 4850 and 70 were released, I got two 4850s. The exchange rate at the time was around $2 to £1 and coincidently, my 4850s were about £105+VAT = £120 each.
Oh yeah, I see the massive rip off now. Technically speaking 4850s and 70s were cheaper over here pre VAT than they were in the US.
At least use your brain when you decide to post a comment.
the whole lot is named: AMD Saxony, its not even a daughter company of AMD anymore;)
(PM me if anyone needs). :toast:
NVIDIA is USA.
ATI and NVIDIA outsourced production.Theoretically it is. Won't know for sure until it is benchmarked.