Ati Hd 4870

[rob4001]

Hi Just checked out some of the benchmarks for this card look good price not bad too. Beats the 9800gx2. I dont know what nvidia will come up with but this looks like ATI could be back in the game for high end cards, if so its got to be good news for us. Anyone know anything about what nvidia have instore?

[kalniel]

The gt200.. single large card, dual slot cooler, 512bit memory controller, up to 1gb GDDR3 ram, should beat ATi's card.

[raibatal]

NVDIA is coming up with the 9900(GT200) series. These should be monsters with a price tag that is commensurate. Heard it might be $500

[Bugbait]

Sadly I expect to pay £350-400 for a top end card these days. If the 9900 delivers (ie. Should be atleast 50% faster than my 8800GTX, ideally 75%+) then I'll pay for it. Been itching to upgrade my graphics since the start of the year.

[raibatal]

I am waiting for the 4800 series to launch. At this point I am accumulating the other components but don't plan to put a system together till 4800 launches ( I heard it is estimated mid June launch). I hope I am delaying the purchase does bear some fruits. Fingers crossed

[Ommid]

I have 150 quid to spend on a video card in June/July lol My machine isnt loving this 6200 It is living with till then :S

[kevpuk]

What is the pricing alleged to be for the 4870/4870x2 ? Haven't seen numbers....

[MSIC]

What interests me is whether or not this is made on a new, smaller manufacturing process or not. I suspect not as the 55nm (i think) was and is still quite new.
My expectation therefore is that the new Radeons with their extra pipelines and presumably higher clock rates are going to draw more power.
And in my book making a faster graphics card by drawing more power is not worth praise at all.
Fingers crossed that i'm wrong, and that they've come up with some way of it being in the same envelopes (wattage and heat and noise) as the 3000 series cards.

[kalniel]

What is the pricing alleged to be for the 4870/4870x2 ? Haven't seen numbers....

It was something like $229 for the 4870. Don't think anyone knows much about the x2 yet.

[kopite]

I still have an ati 1900xtx card so think its about time for an upgrade.

I really hope ATI can get their act together and be competitive again. Not because i`m an ATI fan boy but because the competition is good for the end user as we get shiny new stuff

[this_is_gav]

What interests me is whether or not this is made on a new, smaller manufacturing process or not. I suspect not as the 55nm (i think) was and is still quite new.
My expectation therefore is that the new Radeons with their extra pipelines and presumably higher clock rates are going to draw more power.
And in my book making a faster graphics card by drawing more power is not worth praise at all.
Fingers crossed that i'm wrong, and that they've come up with some way of it being in the same envelopes (wattage and heat and noise) as the 3000 series cards.

It's pretty much the way it has always been. Make something smaller and more efficient, then clock the hell out of it. Intel have a not dissimilar strategy going on. Major release > die reduction > major release > die reduction > etc.

Given how little the HD38x0 consumes at idle (around 10W) - the most important efficiency figure for most, given how much money we will be forking out on electricity - I expect this will only slightly increase with the HD48x0. Load will be a different matter of course.

[Main]

There's been a massive leak of 4800 series info. Interesting that the 4870 needs 2x6pin power connectors...what kind of requirements does GDDR5 have?..

[Flewis]

Looks surprisingly short, graphics cards these days seem to be getting longer and longer.

[this_is_gav]

Looks surprisingly short, graphics cards these days seem to be getting longer and longer.

Well, as Triplex showed, the HD3870 (and even HD3870X2) was needlessly long.

[chaotic_russ]

but the triplex version of the 3870 was rubbish , i know i had one till it stopped working

[this_is_gav]

Possibly (got one for someone else myself, and it's still fine), but it proves it could be made much shorter.

Yours probably just had a duff capacitor or something.