ASUS EAH5970 2 GB GDDR5

LagunaX · Nov 18, 2009

A week ago I thought my 5870 was the bomb...must not sell...must not sell...but my precious wants it...AARRGGHHH!!!!

n0tiert · Nov 18, 2009

found this review :

http://www.hartware.de/review_1020_1.html

quite lower results...... @3.2GHZ

TPU:

hardware.net

tkpenalty · Nov 18, 2009

n0tiert said:
found this review :

http://www.hartware.de/review_1020_1.html

quite lower results......

TPU:

http://tpucdn.com/reviews/ASUS/EAH5970/images/farcry2_1920_1200.gif

hardware.net

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/8673/farcry2t.jpg

W1zz is running his i7 920 at 3.8Ghz which alleviates the bottleneck, hence why results for virtually all cards are higher. This is really saying a lot about consumer CPUs now... GPUs are way ahead of CPUs these days.

n0tiert · Nov 18, 2009

tkpenalty said:
W1zz is running his i7 920 at 3.8Ghz which alleviates the bottleneck, hence why results for virtually all cards are higher. This is really saying a lot about consumer CPUs now... GPUs are way ahead of CPUs these days.

Would be great to see a full AMD/ATI Setup Result.....

TheLaughingMan · Nov 18, 2009

wahdangun said:
so when i can get this card from Lu

do you think i can get air conditioning in hell, it's really hot in there

Trust me, you do not want to know what you have to trade for AC in hell.

On topic note. The scale for the multi-gpu is not very good, but I imagine they should get better in 9.12 and 10.1 drivers.

Bjorn_Of_Iceland · Nov 18, 2009

omfg.

Bo_Fox · Nov 18, 2009

Excellent review, thanks w1z and bta!

Frizz · Nov 18, 2009

I think I e-jizzed in my e-pants with my e-peen :eek:

theorw · Nov 18, 2009

WTF@CRYSIS FULL HD!!!!
295 OWNED...
Wonna see Nvidias card beating this one and be even close to this price...
Sure 5970 will drop to 500-480$ then so more will buy it...
Great job...On water it will do wonders!!!

HTC · Nov 18, 2009

OMG: in some games, this card met my expectations while in others it totally surpassed them ...

On power consumption, it's even lower @ idle then advertised and i find that simply incredible, not to mention that, @ full load, the consumption ain't bad @ all, IMHO.

Question: is an eyefinity bench of this card on your plans, W1zzard? Wondering @ what frame rates some of these games can be played with those incredible, over the top, resolutions ...

W1zzard · Nov 18, 2009

n0tiert said:
found this review :

http://www.hartware.de/review_1020_1.html

quite lower results...... @3.2GHZ

TPU:

http://tpucdn.com/reviews/ASUS/EAH5970/images/farcry2_1920_1200.gif

hardware.net

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/8673/farcry2t.jpg

dont forget that we might have different settings, different game scenes to bench

cbupdd · Nov 18, 2009

Oh, good review! Thanks W1zzard
Memory is the same as 5770, so can we expect it at 1500mhz?

wolf · Nov 18, 2009

I find it a little crazy that the 5970 performs over double what a 5870 does in Crysis, given what the cards technically are, clock speeds etc....

I'm hoping its the drivers and ATi passes on the benefits to singe cards too.

pantherx12 · Nov 18, 2009

Only in super high res, its because it has more memory.

The memory at that res quickly get filled with 1gb so it constantly has to reload the memory making it slower.

That's my basic understanding of it anyway.

ghost101 · Nov 18, 2009

pantherx12 said:
Only in super high res, its because it has more memory.

The memory at that res quickly get filled with 1gb so it constantly has to reload the memory making it slower.

That's my basic understanding of it anyway.

The memory should be the same. Even though its 2GB (unless this has changed for the 58xx cards), the same stuff has to be mirrored on each 1GB sets of vram. This should increase memory bandwidth, but not the memory total.

pantherx12 · Nov 18, 2009

ghost101 said:
The memory should be the same. Even though its 2GB (unless this has changed for the 58xx cards), the same stuff has to be mirrored on each 1GB sets of vram. This should increase memory bandwidth, but not the memory total.

Ahh I guess your right, I completely forget how dual gpu cards worked there for a second...

VulkanBros · Nov 18, 2009

Maybe a nOOb question - but
- why are allmost any ATI card running with 256 bit (or lower) memory buswidth ?
- Why are they not running 448 or 512 bit? What is the reason for that design?
Has it to do with the speeds the memory is running or ?

amschip · Nov 18, 2009

pantherx12 said:
It smashed crysis to pieces!

Even playable at super high res.

Bout time.

About time for Crisis 2 lol

pantherx12 · Nov 18, 2009

VulkanBros said:
Maybe a nOOb question - but
- why are allmost any ATI card running with 256 bit (or lower) memory buswidth ?
- Why are they not running 448 or 512 bit? What is the reason for that design?
Has it to do with the speeds the memory is running or ?

Its DDR5 memory, 256bit is equivalent to 512 bit ddr3.

amschip · Nov 18, 2009

VulkanBros said:
Maybe a nOOb question - but
- why are allmost any ATI card running with 256 bit (or lower) memory buswidth ?
- Why are they not running 448 or 512 bit? What is the reason for that design?
Has it to do with the speeds the memory is running or ?

It helps a bit but cost developer arm and a leg

Bjorn_Of_Iceland · Nov 18, 2009

amschip said:
About time for Crisis 2 lol

would probably smash Crysis 2 even more. lol

Heck, it was treating Crysis like it was CoD4 o_0

HTC · Nov 18, 2009

amschip said:
It helps a bit but cost developer arm and a leg

Quite the contrary. If i understand it properly, the 512 bit interface would significantly increase the die size, transistor count, the temps and, even worse: the price. the gains one would get would be overshadowed by the drawbacks, IMO.

my_name_is_earl · Nov 18, 2009

Apocolypse007 said:
awesome review wizz. An amazing card, but it costs more than 3 times as much as i paid for my 4890.

Well then, certainly you didn't buy it when it first came out. hd4890=310 smaker!!! Got my hd5870 awhile ago so it only cost extra 200 dead benjamin if I were to upgrade. Too bad I'm kinda broke.

amschip · Nov 18, 2009

HTC said:
Quite the contrary. If i understand it properly, the 512 bit interface would significantly increase the die size, transistor count, the temps and, even worse: the price. the gains one would get would be overshadowed by the drawbacks, IMO.

Thats exatly what I meant.

HTC · Nov 18, 2009

amschip said:
Thats exatly what I meant.

In that case, i totally miss understood you

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