News - AMD ATI Radeon HD 5670 revealed?

[HEXUS]

Low-end "Redwood" card caught on camera, complete with specifications and benchmarks.

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[Jimbo75]

amd keep releasing new and innovative cards while nvidia rebrand. its embarrassingly one sided.

[Growkin]

Maybe AMD should distripute the cards they have already made, instead of making new inovations

[kingpotnoodle]

amd keep releasing new and innovative cards while nvidia rebrand. its embarrassingly one sided.

I wouldn't call what they've done particularly innovative... They just die shrunk the 4 series and increased the number of shaders etc, architecturally it's not hugely different apart from DX11 support - which is what all manufacturers are doing sooner or later, and it's not as if DX11 is an AMD/ATI idea, they're just implementing something someone else dreamt up.

23% faster... pretty meh considering it has 25% more shaders than a 4670!

What NVidia are doing wrong is being late to the party though while AMD/ATI are releasing new products (albeit with shaky availability)...

Maybe NVidia will do OK though, by the time Fermi shows up TSMC might have worked out their 40nm yield issues at AMD/ATIs expense?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I wouldn't call what they've done particularly innovative... They just die shrunk the 4 series and increased the number of shaders etc, architecturally it's not hugely different apart from DX11 support - which is what all manufacturers are doing sooner or later, and it's not as if DX11 is an AMD/ATI idea, they're just implementing something someone else dreamt up.

23% faster... pretty meh considering it has 25% more shaders than a 4670!

What NVidia are doing wrong is being late to the party though while AMD/ATI are releasing new products (albeit with shaky availability)...

Maybe NVidia will do OK though, by the time Fermi shows up TSMC might have worked out their 40nm yield issues at AMD/ATIs expense?

The HD5670 will be cheap to make and have low power consumption. If TSMC can increase yields ATI can lower costs of the cards.

This means you will find it in many desktops and notebooks. Perhaps you should see how many HD4650 DDR3 and GDDR3 cards are in notebooks for example and is the fastest graphics card available in most sub £800 notebooks.

If the equivalent Fermi offers better performance for a similar die size then ATI are in trouble.

Also availability of the HD5750 and HD5770 seems fine to me. Ebuyer has plenty of them:

http://www.ebuyer.com/search?sort=pr...imit=10&page=1

http://www.ebuyer.com/search?sort=pr...imit=10&page=1

Also the 8800GT had massive issues with availability and relatively high pricing for months when it was released in late 2007 in the UK so Nvidia has also had issues with availability when a card was more popular than expected.

Short supplies and relatively high pricing of new CPUs and GPUs at launch and even a few months after launch has happened loads of times in the last 10 years so it is not that unusual TBH.

Even the latest Nvidia G310 is a rebrand of the G210. Even the 9800GTX which replaced the 8800GTX had very little performance increase and the same goes with the 9800GT which was a rebadge of the 8800GT.

Lets wait until Nvidia releases its graphics cards and we can see which graphics cards are better value for money.

[R4IDER]

Maybe AMD should distripute the cards they have already made, instead of making new inovations

So far from what I read the 5000 series especially the 5870 has been a complete joke regarding stock shortage.

[Methanoid]

Roll on low profile and single slot cooler models.. this is ideal for a light gaming machine cum HTPC machine. And no doubt low power at peak AND idle.. listening Nvidia?

[Jimbo75]

So far from what I read the 5000 series especially the 5870 has been a complete joke regarding stock shortage.

That isn't amd's fault though, it's the chip manufacturer tsmc (who also make nvidia gpus).

[SiM]

Does it bitstream HD audio?

[Methanoid]

That isn't amd's fault though, it's the chip manufacturer tsmc (who also make nvidia gpus).

Does anyone buy Nvidia these days

[HTPCJunkie]

Does it bitstream HD audio?

OH MY GOD!!!!!
I'm SICK of this. How many HOURS / DOLLARS have been wasted in the attempt to get bit perfect sound? It's become obvious to me that the MPAA and all those others don want us getting bit perfect unless it's coming through an OEM device. Even when we get it working with our HTPCs there's no guarantee that a driver update (or something else) will not break it in the near future. I personally have decided that analog surround is fine and it has made my life a lot easier.

Junkie

[shaithis]

Does it bitstream HD audio?

At the very least it will do uncompressed LPCM over HDMI.

It may possibly do HD bitstreaming as well.

[SiM]

i asked because the 57xx and 58xx support it but are overkill for htpc. no mention of this feature on the article

[MadduckUK]

tbh sim, if the 57's and 58's do then i would expect the 56's and 55's and 54's to as well.

nothing to lose by waiting though someone will know for certain before its on sale

[SiM]

Yeh, you are probably right. Think I will wait for the 54xx series then

[Crazy Fool]

so which is the best single slot card for me?