AMD Cypress ''Radeon HD 5870'' Stripped

[Benetanegia]

Not much insider info, but I talk to luckier people, in this case, people who made Cypress a substitute for their better-half/teddy for a few days. Anyway, mark your calendar/PIM/Blackberry for 23rd.

Yep, in other words: Wiz has it, but the watchdog called NDA is watching. he, exactly what I meant.

 

[Imsochobo]

consumtion more like 160W.
It do draw 180 watts at times, just like 4890 which basicly use 163 watts average with 10 diffrent games.

that card was rated 190 W.

Lets all stop the speculations on powerconsumtion, and see what REVIEWS say, you guys missed whats more interesting than load powerconsumtion.

Idle! 23 W is a low figure, and should provide better powerbill savings than lower load powerconsumtion and higher idle (hd4xxx).

Many says:
HD5xxx is gonna be perfect if its near 4870-4890 load powerconsumtion and gtx260 idle consumtion!

I really dont care if i can hear the damn card without sound while im playing, as long as its idling i really dont wanna hear it, i guess people dont play without sound.

 

[lemonadesoda]

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

That's so rubbish!

I'm so going to find a way to utilise those holes for something!

Thats nasty

 

[jagd]

We cant know actual numbers yet but theorical numbers are easy , 150w from 2 pci-e 6pin plugs and 75w from pci-e 16 slot =225w max give or take 3-4w , 50w difference will be unacceptable for standard wise

So there's no way we could know the actual Maximum consumption, but I think that a good estimate would be around RV790's. But if I'm correct and 188w is the TDP, absolute maximum could be anywhere between 225 and 275 W

 

[pantherx12]

Thats nasty

Ha ha genius

 

[Benetanegia]

consumtion more like 160W.
It do draw 180 watts at times, just like 4890 which basicly use 163 watts average with 10 diffrent games.

that card was rated 190 W.

Lets all stop the speculations on powerconsumtion, and see what REVIEWS say, you guys missed whats more interesting than load powerconsumtion.

Idle! 23 W is a low figure, and should provide better powerbill savings than lower load powerconsumtion and higher idle (hd4xxx).

Many says:
HD5xxx is gonna be perfect if its near 4870-4890 load powerconsumtion and gtx260 idle consumtion!

I really dont care if i can hear the damn card without sound while im playing, as long as its idling i really dont wanna hear it, i guess people dont play without sound.

Well fact is some people do care about noise while playing. Think that for example in Crysis you are alone most of the time and birds choring is as much as you hear, but the card would be almost 100% loaded. It is annoying.

I do care about the sound myself while I'm playing, but I don't think that ANY card will ever be louder than my power supply anyway. I have never used one of those cards that do 50+ db on the reviews though, I usually choose the silent ones. Every card is silent in comparison to my power supply, it was silent but not anymore, I bent it's fan a bit while cleaning it from dust sadly. That's why I use headphones instead of my 5.1 setup most of the times until I replace it. But don't think the PS does a lot of noise. It's just that I paid a lot to have a noise free (clean sound) sound setup just to let something spoil it.

http://img.techpowerup.org/090911/Capture521.jpg

Ey! You got the idea!

 

[Benetanegia]

We cant know actual numbers yet but theorical numbers are easy , 150w from 2 pci-e 6pin plugs and 75w from pci-e 16 slot =225w max give or take 3-4w , 50w difference will be unacceptable for standard wise

Cards do take more than PCIe specs in punctual moments (AKA maximum powr consumption). And GTX295/HD4870 X2 are the living examples.

 

[pantherx12]

Well fact is some people do care about noise while playing. Think that for example in Crysis you are alone most of the time and birds choring is as much as you hear, but the card would be almost 100% loaded. It is annoying.

I do care about the sound myself while I'm playing, but I don't think that ANY card will ever be louder than my power supply anyway. I have never used one of those cards that do 50+ db on the reviews though, I usually choose the silent ones. Every card is silent in comparison to my power supply, it was silent but not anymore, I bent it's fan a bit while cleaning it from dust sadly. That's why I use headphones instead of my 5.1 setup most of the times until I replace it. But don't think the PS does a lot of noise. It's just that I paid a lot to have a noise free (clean sound) sound setup just to let something spoil it.



Ey! You got the idea!

If its out of warantee just replace the fan, its pretty easy : ]

 

[Benetanegia]

If its out of warantee just replace the fan, its pretty easy : ]

I have the Antec P180 and is a pain to take the PSU out. I'm going to buy a Quad PCIe 2.0 capable PSU soon so I will not bother yet. It really doesn't do much noise, but I'm picky, I want clean sound. But I have limits to that too. All the work it takes to take that thing out of the case... that's the limit.

 

[air_ii]

CryEngine3 on Cypress

Hmm, runs quite well on 3* 1920x1200. I think it's only one Cypress board, as Eyefinity can't do CF atm...

 

[toyo]

Some thoughts:
- It says it's the same GPU; although the 5850 has less shaders etc.??? Maybe ATI GPUs are going the way AMD CPUs are... some fiddling in the BIOS and there you are, full 1600 shaders a la Radeon 9800 series.
- What CPU, RAM and PSU does it need? I wonder if a quad is needed to fully unleash this...
- Ummm... I'm still fixated on the matter of turning a 5850 on a 5870

 

[btarunr]

Some thoughts:
- It says it's the same GPU; although the 5850 has less shaders etc.??? Maybe ATI GPUs are going the way AMD CPUs NVIDIA GPUs are... some fiddling in the BIOS and there you are, full 1600 shaders a la Radeon 9800 series.

Teach me how to unlock all 240 shaders on my GTX 260. I'd be very grateful.

 

[toyo]

That's an Nvidia GPU. AMD seems to be in the business of allowing de-activated stuff back online lately Even Nvidia cards unlocked some pipelines back in the day... 6800 series or something, but you know that.
Remains to see if the cores are laser-cut or just inactive... and I expect you guys to let us know first hand since it will be some time 'til I get my hands on a DirectX 11 card.

 

[btarunr]

That's an Nvidia GPU. AMD seems to be in the business of allowing de-activated stuff back online lately

Very well, how to unlock all 800 SPs on an HD 4830 with 640 SPs?

AMD needs to poach into Intel's market share. Hence it didn't bother fixing the faulty ACC microcode. It holds a healthy market position with GPUs. Will not let go of $100 with shoddy harvest methods.

 

[toyo]

Hmm, I did a search on the 4830... I must admit I had no idea that this is possible. Must have been a very small lot of cards. See this.
I'm pretty damn sure the 5800 series will be locked at the advertised specs... but I'm hopeful for the best...
EDIT: It seems like a 4850 GPUs got somehow misplaced on the 4830 boards or something, not related to unlocking cores. The GPU-Z info is the same as the 4850 even the clocks. So guys who bought them I think just found out a better GPU in their computer. Oh well, who doesn't dream on such things...

 

[Imsochobo]

I got a watercooled PHII 940 running 4 ghz. (really silent stuff 600 rpm fans on dualrad)
Dual pc power&cooling 750W.
i HAD 3 4870, but sold two.
And a silverstone TJ07, which isnt very sound isolated to be honest.

The 4870's are rather quiet, you do hear them a little when i play crysis, Yes.
Nothing that ruins the game experience, hope the 5870 is in the same league

 

[buggalugs]

Yay for ATI Booo for Nvidia. But its good Nvidia is actually using new tech in their new cards this time. I shudder at the price tag though. If they charge like they do for old tech their new cards could be $3000 a piece.

 

[MoonPig]

Looks like i've got my money ready for a 5850/70 (depending on benchmarks).

Can't wait

 

[pantherx12]

Looks like i've got my money ready for a 5850/70 (depending on benchmarks).

Can't wait

Aye me too

Sacrificing having my own computer for a while and just going to whack it into my parents system XD

 

[TheMailMan78]

I wonder if a 5850 would be faster than two 4850's or about the same just with better scaling? What do you guys think?

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Faster i reckon.

 

[TheMailMan78]

Faster i reckon.

I figured it would a be faster. Just not sure it would be worth selling them considering they run everything now maxed out. Honestly I can't think of any real advantage to the new 5800 series if you already have one of the 4800 series other than DX11.

 

[pantherx12]

Just for crysis to run at decent fps! ha ha

 

[MoonPig]

And the Stalker series on Max