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

[Tidus]

I played Dirt 2, a DX11 title at 7680 x 3200 and saw definitely playable frame rates. I played Left 4 Dead and the experience was much better. Obviously this new GPU is powerful, although I wouldn't expect it to run everything at super high frame rates at 7680 x 3200.

Sounds very impressive, if you can play WOW at 7680 x 3200 and get over 80 fps with the details maxed I wonder what fps you can get on a 30" screen with a resolution of 2560 x 1600, should make an interesting review.

[Terbinator]

Sounds very impressive, if you can play WOW at 7680 x 3200 and get over 80 fps with the details maxed I wonder what fps you can get on a 30" screen with a resolution of 2560 x 1600, should make an interesting review.

was thinkinh the same thing - Crysis 60+ frames on high @ 1680*1050 (maybe even the big 1080p) on a single card

[MadduckUK]

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

i didnt know that, wow

anyway: whats the betting that like in ati cards of yore and amd processors of now that the shaders can be unlocked on the 5850 to bring it up to a 5870 amount? i know, getting ahead of myself a bit

[Biscuit]

Would be good if we could do that but im doubting it myself. They will have limited the hardware somehow.

[MadduckUK]

through the bios most probs

[Biscuit]

i think it will be more like how they limited the 4830 fromt he 4850

[borandi]

If they have cut the power down (170W on full for the 5870 apparently) but bumped the shader count to 1600, then these cards offer acceptional performance per watt compared to previous cards - a factor of 2 less in terms of flops/watt

[MadduckUK]

acceptional

are you calling it acceptable or exceptional? :|

[kalniel]

Exceptionally acceptable.

Or acceptably exceptional

[abigsmurf]

Soo....

All we're getting out of that big unveiling on the aircraft carrier is showing off a feature that only a tiny minority would ever use?

[Phage]

Soo....

All we're getting out of that big unveiling on the aircraft carrier is showing off a feature that only a tiny minority would ever use?

Yup. makes you want to them.

[vdbswong]

Soo....

All we're getting out of that big unveiling on the aircraft carrier is showing off a feature that only a tiny minority would ever use?

I assume that "that" was the only piece of information that they were allowed to release as of now and that the rest of the stuff will come in time / on the announce date.

[Platinum]

Want one now

[shaithis]

Sounds very impressive, if you can play WOW at 7680 x 3200 and get over 80 fps with the details maxed I wonder what fps you can get on a 30" screen with a resolution of 2560 x 1600, should make an interesting review.

4870x2 already plays it fine at 2560x1600 maxed out

Multi monitors sounds good but for any game where you control a character or vehicle in the centre of your screen, you would probably want 3 displays so that you don't get a split down the center.....which starts to get a bit silly IMO

[Biscuit]

It does say o the anandtech thing that the number of screens (odd) is dominated by FPS

[ahoyhoyhoy]

...a card that AMD hopes will dethrone NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 295 as the single-card performance king.

hmm add on the usual £20-30 for UK prices and thats pushing the cost boundries a touch

Well if the first statement turns out to be true, which would be a massive feat to be honest, and considering the pricepoint of the GTX 295, then I guess AMD will milk the 5870 until the nvidia 300 series come out.