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Wow very very underwhelming, though I'll reserve judgement until I've seen the Hexus review ;)
Still i spose if it triggers a vicious price war it could make my next GPU purchase very interesting. Looking to spend around £180 so we shall see what it does to the cards at this price point. Bear in mind a 5870 can be had for this price so I'll probably just go for that.
Fail.
Looks like the green team wont be dying anytime soon...
I believe it was targeting the 570, so to come close to that in areas that nVidia are traditionally strong at isn't that bad, certainly not a fail.
The question will be what is the die size of this part? If it's much smaller than the 570/580 part then AMD are laughing, and might be able to lower prices without hitting profit margins too badly. But we don't know - rumour is it's a bit larger than recent AMD ones.
The 5870 already performs between the 470 and 570 so why would they release a bigger part at the same performance?
Short answer is they wouldn't. The long answer would be don't believe anything you read until wednesday. :)
Some more interesting slides on BSN at the moment:
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...-unveiled.aspx
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/Data...ioning_675.jpg
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/Data..._Specs_675.jpg
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/Data...rmance_675.jpg
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/Data..._XFire_675.jpg
"PowerTune" limit - guess thats the WTF Booom switch is then.
How do you get crossfire scaling above 200% for two cards?!
It suggests a badly coded game engine to me ;)
I already have posted some details here two days ago:
http://forums.hexus.net/graphics-car...ns-leaked.html
http://bbs.expreview.com/data/attach...iioiaeeaz1.jpg
Terbinator also linked to the Uniengine slide two days ago.
Also, many of the benchmarks have been done use Catalyst 10.11 drivers and not the latest Catalyst 10.12 drivers.
The person who leaked the performance figures on the German forum has tested the card with another guy with more games.
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/3373/benchq.jpg
Both test rigs used a Phenom II X6 a around 4GHZ.
The leaked performance figures are based on one single card.
Post 1485 in the following thread on OcUK(which I have also been contributing too) is worth reading:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...214275&page=50
Unigine results in Crossfire and single card with a Core i7 950 at 4GHZ:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...php?t=18217424
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/9060/heaven2dot1.png
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/9585/heaven.png
The single card results are with Unigine 2.0 though.
A single GTX580 with a Core i7 950 at 3.8GHZ.
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/4383/580o.jpg