Wednesday, September 9th 2009
AMD Cypress Graphics Accelerator Pictured
Here's the first sighting of a fully-assembled upcoming AMD Cypress "Radeon HD 5870" accelerator. This photo-shoot comes a couple of days ahead of its unveiling to the press tomorrow. Here's our very first thoughts on what we see:
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Source:
Tweakers.net
- The accelerator is unusually long for a single-GPU one from AMD. The company wouldn't splurge too much on aesthetics (especially lengthening the PCB), if there's no need for it to do so. Apparently there is.
- Connectivity options galore. With two DVI-D, and one each of DisplayPort and HDMI, AMD promises it can handle three display-heads per GPU.
- The components behind the GPU area (exposed) indicates the GPU to be somewhat large
- History tells us that AMD uses a backplate only if it finds a real utility in it, such as cooling additional memory chips or VRM components. This card has a large, almost full-coverage backplate.
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188 Comments on AMD Cypress Graphics Accelerator Pictured
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Poor design (for cooling efficiency).
It may well be that this card is SO ADVANCED that it runs cold and with a silent low speed fan in which case cooling is a moot point. (somehow I dont think so! LOL)
The stock coolers on the above cards did the job; albeit not as well as aftermarket air, but, AMD only needs to offer enough cooling for stock clocks and nothing more...this will do the job. :)
"shivers"
why cant these morons design a card thats fits in a normal atx case???. my hd cage is fixed:banghead::banghead::banghead:
"Proper" cooling in your head and everyone elses will ALWAYS be aftermarket.
Everything on your list can be tweaked fan speed ect. "i love stock coolers" stop.
Also isn't this GPU smaller than a 3870s??? hmmmmmmmm. That means more heat right???!!
im stupid correct me. so if it has MORE vents on the front and the same size fan and a substantial exit "for a stock fan" which some of "love" lol wouldn't it be ok?
Whats the headroom on a 40nm chip like?
That thing is tiny, and this thing is more comparable to the HD2900XT in size.
The problem with the narrrow outlet is that it forces air molecule to collide with each other, thus naturally creating more noise.
Proper cooling is about more than keeping the card barely alive.
I don't really want to have to move my Samsung F1s into the top of the case unless I really have to, as my HD cage is removable.
the hd 4850 x2 was also an example... it was even bigger than the 4870 x2;)
EDIT: Love the Design from its lookings though. i somehow like it with a backplate
This isn't true with nVidia's coolers, I can run every nVidia card I had since G92 was release at full speed and bearly hear the fan, and I can tweak the fan speed to inaudiable levels and still have good enough temperatures to overclock with. So yes, I love the stock coolers on nVidia's cards, and I have never even thought of wasting money on replacing them with aftermarket solutions that are only marginally better. Who said it would be smaller? It is on a smaller process, but not necessarily smaller die size. I am. But it doesn't. Can be very good, or very bad.