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[topgear]

The top end HD5870 will end up at 249 or 299$ price.

Then they will gonna cost here atleast $280 & $325 or even more.

BTw, thanks for informing.

[desiibond]

AMD DX11 Cypress is HD 5870 & HD 5850

AMD has informed their partners that their upcoming DX11 Cypress cards will be known as Radeon HD 5800 series. Cypress XT is Radeon HD 5870 while Cypress PRO is Radeon HD 5850. The key features of these DX11 cards are :

* 1GB GDDR5 memory
* ATI Eyefinity technology with support for up to three displays
* ATI Stream technology
* Designed for DirectCompute 5.0 and OpenCL
* Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
* Compliant with DirectX 11 and earlier revisions,supports OpenGL 3.1
* ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
* ATI Avivo HD video and display technology
* Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay technology
* 2x DL-DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI
* PCI Express 2.0 interface

source: http://vr-zone.com/articles/-rumour-....html?doc=7469

[saqib_khan]

^^ Si I guess they'll be priced very high.

[desiibond]

I am thinking of 10k and 15k price points for HD5850 and HD5870 respectively.
They can enjoy the flexibility of pricing a bit high till nvidia releases their own DX11 cards.

[desiibond]

Sapphire ships new-and-improved Radeon HD 4770



GPU Clock: 750MHz
GDDR5 memory clock: 3,200MHz

Most noticeable change is the new Arctic Cooler's cooling solution which will be exclusive to Sapphire.

out: reference cooler, one DVI port
in: arctic cooler, one VGA port, one HDMI port.

[desiibond]

Graphics Add-in Board Market Sees Ups Amidst Downs in Q2 2009

AMD jumps up 4% in dedicated GPU market share and nvidia share declines by same percentage.

Cut-throat competition between major graphics processor vendors had to happen in the worst of times as far as the economic weather goes. The latest papers by Jon Peddie Research (JPR) covering the state of graphics add-in board market reveals that Q2 2009 has been a better quarter than Q1, but still worse compared to last year. This quarter, around 16.81 million units were shipped, which is a welcome 3 percent increase over the previous quarter (16.32 units), while compared to Q2 2008, shipments are down 15 percent. In contrast, the integrated graphics (IGP) market saw a 4 percent increase compared to last year.

One of the factors that could have contributed to the slump, according to JPR, is the replenishment of inventories in Q2, which overshadowed its digestion (sales). As for gainers and losers, AMD gained a handy 4 percent of market-share, while NVIDIA lost just that amount. AMD stands at 35 percent, with NVIDIA at 64 percent, against last quarter's 31 and 68 percent respectively. JPR however notes that "despite its renewed competitiveness, however, AMD hadn’t yet seen a sustained growth in market share, as NVIDIA adamantly refused to give up any volume, aggressively cutting prices as necessary to avoid a loss in share," so in essence, NVIDIA's move to introduce drastic price cuts for some mid-thru-high end products seems to have worked in its favour. Hopefully H2 2009 looks better under JPR's watchglass, as new product launches are definitely indicated, and of course, there's the holiday shopping season incoming.

Source :techpowerup

[comp@ddict]

Can't wait for HD5850.

OMG an propous quads too!

[saqib_khan]

Guys, any updates on Cypress ? Its 10th Sept

[desiibond]

^^no updates dude. donno what's going on at AMD camp.

[Krow]

I think AMD is having a regroup. Maybe they are strategising as to what to do to cull Intel.

[desiibond]

finally, here is an update:

AMD Cypress "Radeon HD 5870" accelerator official pictures




[img=http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/5730/114cthm.jpg]

[img=http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/6240/114dthm.jpg]

[comp@ddict]

RADEON HD5870 EXCLUSIVE - 1600 SHADERS

The chip works at 825MHz and has 1600 shaders, two times more than RV770 which indicates that the chip is two times faster than the year old RV770.

The chip has as many as 2.1 billion transistors and is more than twice the number the RV770 packs, which has 956 million transistors. The card uses GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.3GHz (5.2GHz in quad mode) and can provide more than 150GB/second bandwidth. The power of this card stays at 180W while in idle the power drops down to 27W, three times less than the 90W on 4870.

RADEON HD5850 REVEALED - 1440 SHADERS

{QUOTE]ATI's Radeon HD 5850 card is a slower and crippled version of the Radeon HD 5870 and this slower card has 1440 shaders and runs at 725MHz.

Just like the Radeon HD 5870, this card comes with 32ROPs and the maximum power consumption is 170W under load and 27W when idle. [/QUOTE]

[himanshu_game]

nice updates

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no benchmarks till now ....

[desiibond]

they will be in very soon. just wait

[himanshu_game]

waiting.........

[comp@ddict]

Benchies, come already!

[desiibond]

looks like AMD has pushed the release date to September 23rd. found this in some site but forgot to copy the link.

[topgear]

I'll take the wait and watch path untill nvidia releases GT3 series as there is no DX11 GPU currently available in market other than HD5870 and HD5850

Untill then ATI FTW!

[desiibond]

Sapphire Radeon HD4750 pictures

As the first AMD 40nm RV740-based graphics card, Sapphire Radeon HD 4750 Platinum is powered by 480 stream processors, and ships with GDDR5 memory as well as Core/Memory clock of 750/800MHz, with a total memory bandwidth of 51.2GB/s.

Price: sub $100
Good news is that this particular model is factory overclocked and runs at HD4770's speed.













Read On

[comp@ddict]

480 SPs and 100$ wtf!!!

[desiibond]

Here is the spec list for HD5850 and HD5870:



HD5850 itself has nearly double the pixel rate that HD4890 has and 60% more performance. Now, I do feel that at 17k, it's appropriately priced. And it will definitely fall to 11k and stabilize there.

[Krow]

And its supposed to run cooler (40 nm!!!)!!! Will it consume lesser power than 4890? I am talking about both 5850 and 5870.

[amitash]

the performance given in the chart cannot be directly attributed to in-game perf...

[comp@ddict]

ZOMG!!!! Some AIR COOLED HD4770s






THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!!!

[amitash]

^dude just post the link

[ico]

There goes my bandwidth....Thumbnails please!

[desiibond]

ATI Catalyst 9.9 WHQL Released


AMD released version 9.9 of its ATI Catalyst driver suite that provides drivers and related essential software for ATI Radeon graphics processors, AMD 7-series core-logic, and ATI Multimedia products. This release mainly intends to fix application-specific issues, and features related to Catalyst Control Center application. For more details, refer to the Release Notes document. Highlights include:

•Anti-Aliasing support for Ghostbusters
•ATI CrossFireX support for Resident Evil 5
•Graphics corruption fix for Sims 3
•Catalyst Control Center - Basic now responds properly after exiting Quick Adjust Video Settings
•Edge enhancement and de-noise sliders in Catalyst Control Center no longer lags or appears out of sync with mouse movement
•Launching Hotkeys Manager in Catalyst Control Center no longer causes an unhandled exception error
•The "Desktop Rotation" page in Catalyst Control Center no longer shows additional information for the second display when the secondary adapter is connected
•HDMI is now detected properly as DTV (HDMI) instead of DTV (DVI) when the HDMI display is hotplugged for the first time
•Catalyst Control Center no longer displays error message when specific HDMI displays are hot unplugged and hotplugged back
•Intermittent failures no longer occur with MediaShow Espresso once a transcoding process has been completed

http://techpowerup.com/103620/ATI_Ca..._Released.html

[hellknight]

Hey guys what are your views on GTS 250 based cards.. my friend wants to go for a NVIDIA based card.. so i'm thinking that GTS 250 should be a better option.. its cheap around 7.5k I guess..

[desiibond]

yes. on a 7k budget, it rocks!

[comp@ddict]

For 7k, I STRONGLY SUGGEST:

Sahh[ire HD4770 512MB GDDR5 Artic Accelero @ 7.5k

It's a STEALLL, and better than GTS250