ATI Radeon HD 5870 hits the rumour mill

[gerikoh]

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Now that ATI has established a 40nm manufacturing process with its Radeon HD 4770, it was only a matter of time before the rumour mill began to churn out details of other upcoming 40nm parts.

Today, the attention's turning to potential RV870-based parts. According to German site hardware-infos.com, ATI's RV770 successor will arrive as soon as July '09 in the form of the Radeon HD 5870 and the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5870 X2.

The numbers are anything but confirmed, but we could be looking at 4,560 GFLOPS from the Radeon HD 5870 X2 - almost double that of the Radeon HD 4870 X2.
linky (http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=18240)
yum yum yum :pint:

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

link to the source?

I've read through and this is the same as the other 5870 rumors just regurgitated in chart form.... totally untrue as far as I'm concerned

[Sneaky Snake]

I'm not sure if the 5870 with be 40nm, it is gonna be their flagship card, and as such they will want speed over efficiency.

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

I'm not sure if the 5870 with be 40nm, it is gonna be their flagship card, and as such they will want speed over efficiency.

No mate, its already taped out @ 40nm ;) they are going to be holding to the small die size strategy and they've used the 4770 well to learn the 40nm process and have been pretty successful. The rv870 must be 40nm for ATI to make money on their cards.

[Sneaky Snake]

Well then, good news for me with my 450 watt PSU. Eventually a 500 watt will be a huge power supply, like 1000 watt ones are today

[gerikoh]

link to the source?

I've read through and this is the same as the other 5870 rumors just regurgitated in chart form.... totally untrue as far as I'm concerned
link added :D

looks like these are the expensive ones. waiting for the high end mid ranged cards :D

[drizzt5]

Well then, good news for me with my 450 watt PSU. Eventually a 500 watt will be a huge power supply, like 1000 watt ones are today
Yea, I've been thinking about that. I hope PSU requirements level out and don't change or even go lower... because then I'll be feeling pretttty good about my 800w psu I bought a while ago. I was concerned when I bought it, it wouldn't be enough a few years from now :).

Yes..

I think I will ditch my 2x4850's when a DX11 game is out that I actually want to play, then I may pick up a 5870 or 2.

[Jakl]

Yea, I've been thinking about that. I hope PSU requirements level out and don't change or even go lower... because then I'll be feeling pretttty good about my 800w psu I bought a while ago. I was concerned when I bought it, it wouldn't be enough a few years from now :).

Yes..

I think I will ditch my 2x4850's when a DX11 game is out that I actually want to play, then I may pick up a 5870 or 2.

Yea, in my system I have a Thermaltake 1200W and it a over kill when I used to power 3 x 9800GTX's . I would like to go lower, and hopefully with these new cause with smaller gpu architecture (40nm or lower) , we wont need to go anything higher than a 800w PSU

As soon as DX11 comes out, then I will buying the new GPU's around that time

[gerikoh]

ehhh that i wonder if those new high end cards will have lower power requirement since they also become more powerful. well see. :)

[gunsmoney]

hmm i wonder what nvidias answer to this will be. Cuz ATI has caught up to them quite a bit, and i've been using nvidia for quite a while. maybe it might be time to switch over to ATI . . .