Monday, November 30th 2009
AMD Preparing Radeon HD 5950 for Q1 2010?
Close to two weeks after launching the industry's fastest graphics card with the Radeon HD 5970 2 GB, it looks like AMD will back the release with another high-end graphics card in Q1 2010, ideally to stack up a lineup against NVIDIA's performance DirectX 11 offerings that are slated for around the same time. The new release comes in the form of Radeon HD 5950, aimed to occupy the gap between the Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5970.
The Radeon HD 5950 will retain the design methodology of the HD 5970. It will use two AMD Cypress GPUs with the same configuration Radeon HD 5850 uses. It has 1440 stream processors enabled per GPU, 72 TMUs and 32 ROPs enabled, and 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interfaces per GPU probably to hold 2 GB of total memory. Just as the dual-GPU HD 5970 uses lower clock speeds compared to the single-GPU HD 5870 that uses the same GPU, HD 5950 keeps up with the trend. It is expected to have its core clocked between 650~675 MHz, and memory at 900~1000 MHz (3.60 GHz to 4.00 GHz effective).
Source:
NordicHardware
The Radeon HD 5950 will retain the design methodology of the HD 5970. It will use two AMD Cypress GPUs with the same configuration Radeon HD 5850 uses. It has 1440 stream processors enabled per GPU, 72 TMUs and 32 ROPs enabled, and 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interfaces per GPU probably to hold 2 GB of total memory. Just as the dual-GPU HD 5970 uses lower clock speeds compared to the single-GPU HD 5870 that uses the same GPU, HD 5950 keeps up with the trend. It is expected to have its core clocked between 650~675 MHz, and memory at 900~1000 MHz (3.60 GHz to 4.00 GHz effective).
41 Comments on AMD Preparing Radeon HD 5950 for Q1 2010?
I bet will be the same with Nvidia, new single GPU and new dual GPU. They are doing what they did last year.
Would help with the 5870 shortage + more promotion to ATI and spoiling NVIDIA launch :)
This shortage sucks lemons :mad:
4 cards in such short period is making them compete with them selves. What's left for the rest of 2010, 5890 & 5990 monster?
Oh but I almost forgot, the ATI price drop™. Come next year everything that loses in performance will drop in price. Now they had couple months to milk some money :)
a 5970 should be clocked like two 5870's for easy trifire combo's, with a slightly more aggressive fan profile
and a 5950 should be clocked (and disables sp's) like two 5850's for easier combo's.
It was like that with a 4870X2 and a 4850X2, why can't it be the same now, the numbers wouldn't be so freaking crazy if they at least matched up.
48701gb+4870X2 was a perfect trifire combo, all GPU's and memory clocked the same, this series is an utter mess IMO.
now they've come up with 5750, 5770, 5850, 5870, 5950, 5970 and if you don't know whats what your in trouble, and who knows what combination's will even work, or if they work, work well.
I assume you can Crossfire up to 4 "crypress" cores together and 4 "junipers" too, but even that isn't so clear.
bah, why did they even change their naming scheme.
Also limited stock is nothing new for ATI.. Back around the time (and before) AMD took over, higher end product was difficult to find.. This is just a typical pattern for both sides it seems..
What will ATI have to offer in 2010?- Available stock would be a treat I'd think..;)
@wolf: It's not how many 'cards' you can xfire, it's how many gpu's.. At most (right now) you can xfire 4 gpu's.. If I remember right..
Good strategy IMO. I'm surprised they havent launched 512MB economy editions of the 5xxx series and the new egg cooler. Silly to replace an existing model... just create a derivative and gain more shelf space.
no no..To just waiting for the launch of fermi next year..I think that ATI will be a little upset with the news of Nvidia
Yes, these dual GPU cards don't match up in the performance category to their respective siblings in CrossFire but you need to keep in mind:
-Power consumption
-Heat output
-Price
Two HD 5870's are going to run around $800 bucks. A single 5970 runs about $620. The cost is built in to it's relative performance. The big plus is, the 5970 has excellent overclocking headroom.
EDIT here it was; www.legitreviews.com/article/1107/1/
Also regarding the GPU mhz clock vs 5870's, they did it to drop costs. They OC to the same levels, they use the same GPU, yet per GPU, the 5970 is significantly cheaper, its fantastic!