Graphic Cards The ATI Radeon HD 58XX Thread

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Well, nVidia has a history of unleashing raw power chips and they almost every time win over ATI until ATI come up with something new. However, both players play a different game IMO...ATI is more concerned towards mainstream market and reasonable price chips and I think that generates more revenue
 
ATi should however be more into driver optimization for their cards...

No comments untill nvidia releases more info and specs on gt300 series....or they mite just go for

'Nvidia - The way its meant to be renamed':P
 
It's quite obvious that Nvidia will spread FUD to counter the HD5000 Series..I'd not be suprised if there is another round of renames and price cuts from Nvidia...:)
 
^ lol GT300 will surely beat 58xx if the rumored specs are true

i read somewhere GTX 380 is expected to have 512 Shaders , 1Gb 512bit GDDR5 at around 4800mhz so around 2.5 Tflops and more than 250gb / sec bandwidth :P .

so it should be around 30-40% faster than GTX 295 and should beat 58xx
 
GT380 has to beat 5870X2, not 5870. The way AMD positions their GPU's xx70 series are upper mid range series, not the ultra high end. For example 4870X2 was competition for GTX280 and 4870 was competition for GTX260.
 
Good too see nVidia is confident about GT300... even if doesn't beat RV870 and comes neck-to-neck, it just means that fight will be taken on price-front... and that means, in the end we the consumers win. :)

On the other hand... I just remembered nVidia head-honco Huang's saying something (about Larrabee) like... "We don't know what that is, we can't worry about product that doesn't exist yet". Now, think of GT300 in place of larrabee.....
 
Actually my bad. 5870 is not going to be AMDs top card, infact it will be 5870X2. The GTX 295 is 2 cards in one anyway, so the 5870 being upto par with 295 and consuming much less power and costing lesser is a success for AMD.
 
Nvidia: DirectX 11 is not important

“Graphics industry, I think, is on the point that microprocessor industry was several years ago, when AMD made the public confession that frequency does not matter anymore and it is more about performance per watt. I think we are the same crossroad with the graphics world: framerate and resolution are nice, but today they are very high and going from 120fps to 125fps is not going to fundamentally change end-user experience. But I think the things that we are doing with Stereo 3D Vision, PhysX, about making the games more immersive, more playable is beyond framerates and resolutions. Nvidia will show with the next-generation GPUs that the compute side is now becoming more important that the graphics side,” concluded Mr. Hara.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-directx-11-is-not-important/7674.html?doc=7674

quite interesting .......... does tat mean they gonna comeup with less power hogger GPU's..
 
^^ that means they don't have a DX11 capable card right now and may not have it in near future. It also means that this future card may not be a great DX11 performer.

I mean secrecy over a product (G300) is one thing, but almost trashing the next big thing (DX11) in graphics standards without clearly spelling out how and why it is such a bad thing is outlandish.

This is bad... I mean bad for consumers. Then there is all this talk about very bad G300 yields (http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1034622662&postcount=36 and SemiAccurate :: Nvidia GT300 yields are under 2%). Unless Nvidia pulls something out of its hat, I don't see G300-based card for at least three-four months.

So, say goodbye to price war ;)

And I can't help but wonder at the hypocrisy of Nvidia. In the same DX 11 statement it also said that consumer wants more from a gfx card like GPGPU. DX11 with its compute shaders and more importantly OpenCL, could be huge for GPGPU... but of course for Nvidia that doesn't matter. It's is the GPGPU on CUDA that matters to them... pathetic!
 
nvidia speculated same thing about dx10.1 about july/august last year when 4xxx was launched and then they came up with two dx10.1 OEM cards silently this july...G210(GT218) and GT220.
 
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850/5870 pictured

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Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850/5870 pictured | VR-Zone | Gadgets | PC Enthusiasts
 
ragzdiablo said:
omg...these sapphire ones are so cool.....any idea of price?
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it is reference model only....all the brands will have the same thing, so wats cool here.....if you are talking about the printed graphics dan ya dat is cool:ohyeah:
 
Will the prices of current cards decline anytime soon.Cuz iam desperately waiting to buy a card.

Should i wait for this or buy a GTX 260 or 275 HELP?????????????
 
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