Graphic Cards Radeon HD 5870, "Cypress" to be aggressively priced, at US $299

[Ankurkh1]

New Info surfaced about 5870

According to a fresh report by Donanim Haber, AMD's next performance graphics accelerator, the Radeon HD 5870, codenamed "Cypress" is expected to be aggressively priced, at US $299. At that price, it intends to be highly competitive against GeForce GTX 285 from NVIDIA. The secret-sauce behind the price could be the 40 nm fab process on which the GPU is being built, which allows upping transistor counts while maintaining significantly smaller die-sizes compared to 55 nm.

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[.:napster:.]

OMG !!!! that would be an awesome price, would get once its launched if it retails around that price

 

[tosh79]

waiting to grab it with both hands , But i doubt it will be avilable in India for that price.

 

[mutant]

wow...for a think that is more powerful than HD 4870X2 2gb card...this price sure is nice..

 

[hatter]

So far so good... but one bit that troubles me in this news item.

I wonder why 5870 @ $299 is going to be competitive with GTX285. A 4890 is available for less than $200 and gives almost 90% performance of GTX285. In fact, 4890s factory overclocked to 1Ghz sell for around $270 and match GTX285 in performance

 

[Amien]

So far so good... but one bit that troubles me in this news item.

I wonder why 5870 @ $299 is going to be competitive with GTX285. A 4890 is available for less than $200 and gives almost 90% performance of GTX285. In fact, 4890s factory overclocked to 1Ghz sell for around $270 and match GTX285 in performance

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Based on the price(if true) and performance it would absolutely destroy the 285(which OC editions of the 4890 already match pretty closely), offering performance many tiers(supposedly faster than a 4870x2 already) over it at the same price point.

Green camp better have something up their sleeve...

 

[hash]

Would it destroy GTX 295?

 

[avi_avadhut]

specs -

ATI Radeon HD 5870 and 5870 X2 specifications leaked

 

[sabby]

Holy mother of GPUs !!! 5870X2 !! 300GBps BW !!! I don't think a PCIEx16 is capable of that. PCIE 2.0 x32 or or PCIE 3.0 is required

 

[gamervivek]

So far so good... but one bit that troubles me in this news item.

I wonder why 5870 @ $299 is going to be competitive with GTX285. A 4890 is available for less than $200 and gives almost 90% performance of GTX285. In fact, 4890s factory overclocked to 1Ghz sell for around $270 and match GTX285 in performance

price competitive,not performance-wise, and the fact that the gtx285 is the best single gpu that nvidia has to offer.

 

[111diablo111]

for how much will it cost in India?? :S definitely not in 299$ :bleh:

 

[muzux2]

So far so good... but one bit that troubles me in this news item.

I wonder why 5870 @ $299 is going to be competitive with GTX285. A 4890 is available for less than $200 and gives almost 90% performance of GTX285. In fact, 4890s factory overclocked to 1Ghz sell for around $270 and match GTX285 in performance

Thats a wrong rumour. Take all early rumours as pinch of Salt.

 

[WingZero]

Some specs of upcoming gpu.

 

[hawkice]

How long do u think it'll be before these cards hit Indian markets ?

 

[Ironhide]

can anyone tell me what is the exact specs of the card????????? ( is it 1200 shaders or 1600 shaders ) .............and regarding the 299$ price for 5870 i guess it fare enough as the rumors around suggest that 5870 would perform twice as much as 4870 1gb..............and a 4870 1gb retails around 145$ ( 290$ for 4870 crossfire ).......also consider low production costs involved in producing 40nm cards in contrast to 55nm cards

 

[Zloyd]

wow 299$ launch price for that monster is UNBELIEVABLY good, its new architecture its going to beat the 285 quite comfortably it should at least.

I think the 4870 was launched at a similar price as well, though you might expect these cards to be priced a little higher considering that they are the first DX11 cards.

Either ways we will know in 2 weeks and we should start seeing some early bench results really soon even before that.

CANT WAIT !!!

 

[hatter]

Some specs of upcoming gpu.

If we assume this is right, then

5870 will have:

TMUs: 48

ROPs: 32

Shaders (unified)

1200

Memory bus
256

Memory type

GDDR5

Hmmmm... seems quite plausible