News - AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5870 pictured, dated

[Phage]

Apparently 26cm long ! The article I linked to above worked it out from the length of the PCIE connector shown in the pictures.

[TomHE]

Oooh, I want one of these (probably the 5850) but is it worth buying 1x 5850 or 2x4870's since it looks like they will be roughly the same price :/

[OilSheikh]

I am still on my 8800GT. Can NVIDIA and AMD stop releasing cards every week? CRYSIS runs just fine on max.

[Phage]

I am still on my 8800GT. Can NVIDIA and AMD stop releasing cards every week? CRYSIS runs just fine on max.

Hmmmph - I had one of those (on a P4 admittedly) and Crysis ran like a brown dog.

[Arthran]

I am still on my 8800GT. Can NVIDIA and AMD stop releasing cards every week? CRYSIS runs just fine on max.

Yeah but your 8800GT is also known as the 9800 and the 260...

[Platinum]

Depends on the resolution, I would guess he's on a low res such as 1280 x 1024, higher resolutions such as 1680 x 1050 would run like a dog with no legs on that card with settings at high.

[Infinite]

Hopefully I can pick up someone's 4850 for under £50

[Biscuit]

Yeah but your 8800GT is also known as the 9800 and the 260...

The 260 was different, the GTS250 was the same archtecture with a few tweaks and faster clocks etc

[TomHE]

Anyone else think that that cooler looks like the old batmobile?

[Zhaoman]

Yeah but your 8800GT is also known as the 9800 and the 260...

hahaha brilliant

[MadduckUK]

hahaha brilliant

and word is that the 260 will end up as a 3XX in the not so distant future

[vdbswong]

Anandtech have an interesting article that suggests what i assume is the HD5870 will be able to run 6 monitors simultaneously and give playable framerates at a resolution of 7680x3200 although it's dependant on the game (they used Dirt 2). Left 4 Dead ran at 7680x1600 though (3 2560x1600 monitors side by side).

[MadduckUK]

Anandtech have an interesting article that suggests what i assume is the HD5870 will be able to run 6 monitors simultaneously and give playable framerates at a resolution of 7680x3200 although it's dependant on the game (they used Dirt 2). Left 4 Dead ran at 7680x1600 though (3 2560x1600 monitors side by side).

were gonna need a bigger boat monitor

might hop up to a single 26-28"er

[Biscuit]

dont have room on my desk for anything like that

[kalniel]

dont have room on my desk for anything like that

Wall mount

Looks nice...

[Pob255]

The 260 was different, the GTS250 was the same archtecture with a few tweaks and faster clocks etc

8800GT & 9800GT are 112 stream "versions" of the G92 gpu
8800gts 512mb, 9800gtx, 9800gtx+ and gts250 are full 128 stream G92 gpu with higher clocks
nVidia was planning on re-release the 112 stream 8800gt/9800gt as the gt240 but pressure from media, users and most importantly graphics card companies (nvidia partners) made nvidia pull the plans