AMD Radeon HD 5870

[Guest UlfB]

Hi,The new AMD/ATI card 5870 apears to be out on the market. Seems to be a very fast card. Memory bandwidth close to the GTX 285 but the card seems to be much faster than the 285.Anybody tried it with FSX yet?AnandTech review here: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3643Tom's HW: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-5870,2422.html[H]ardOCP here: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2009/09/22/...deo_card_reviewXbit: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/dis...eon-hd5870.htmlGuru3D: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/dis...eon-hd5870.htmlEDITED:The arrival of the 5870 card made me curious on what nVIDIA is up to. Some info on nVIDIA GT300 specifications here: http://forum.xcpus.com/xtreme-news/16774-n...300-series.htmlThe GT300 seems to be a very, very fast card.The GT300 will probably be released next year. Some info here: http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/09...e.out.due.soon/Seems drivers for mobile cards are on the way: http://www.guru3d.com/news/nvidia-geforce-...in-new-drivers/

Edited September 26, 2009 by UlfB

[TechguyMaxC 516]

There is no info on GT300. Anything you read about it is FUD.

[Guest ThrottleUp]

This is gonna be a very impressive card! Its got a lot of power and TBH I think theres a lack of games that can really challenge it ATM. But its most brilliant feature is EyeFinity. We wont need to get a TripleHead2Go anymore because with this EyeFInity option a single 5800 series card can feed 6 monitors. WOOT! Although having said that most home users will have a max of three perhaps. Check it out in action, its gonna take flight simulation & gaming to new levels:

http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologie.../eyefinity.aspxhttp://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/hands...y-review-634244http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ati-e...nitor,8637.html

[Guest UlfB]

But its most brilliant feature is EyeFinity. We wont need to get a TripleHead2Go anymore because with this EyeFInity option a single 5800 series card can feed 6 monitors. WOOT! Although having said that most home users will have a max of three perhaps.

If you read the AnandTech review you'll find out that the tested 5870 card only supports 3 output devices, not 6. So max three monitors is what you get for now. But you with that massive resolution in FSX you'll sacrifice a lot of fps. I would prefer to use my single monitor at 1920x1200 and being able to run FSX with bloom enabled, max autogen, highest water settings, clouds all over and a lot of AI.

[Guest djt01]

Memory bandwidth close to the GTX 285 but the card seems to be much faster than the 285.

Yeah all that memory bandwidth but still coupled to that 256 bit memory bus. I

[Guest UlfB]

Yeah all that memory bandwidth but still coupled to that 256 bit memory bus. I

[TechguyMaxC 516]

If you read the AnandTech review you'll find out that the tested 5870 card only supports 3 output devices, not 6. So max three monitors is what you get for now. But you with that massive resolution in FSX you'll sacrifice a lot of fps. I would prefer to use my single monitor at 1920x1200 and being able to run FSX with bloom enabled, max autogen, highest water settings, clouds all over and a lot of AI.

There is a 6-port card called the "Eyefinity Edition" coming very shortly. Only problem is there's simply no way to fit 6 DVI ports onto a dual-slot graphics card, so they had to use 6 mini Display Port connections.

[Buckster 0]

you'll be pleased to hear that 256bit memory bus isn't an issue for DDR5 :)ie memory bandwitdh is not an issueie don't be disappointed that its not 512bit - DDR5 is different in the way its written/read to AFAIK

Yeah all that memory bandwidth but still coupled to that 256 bit memory bus. I

[Guest djt01]

you'll be pleased to hear that 256bit memory bus isn't an issue for DDR5 :)

Lol, the 4870 uses GDDR5 memory also so how is the 256 bit memory bus magically

[TechguyMaxC 516]

Lol, the 4870 uses GDDR5 memory also so how is the 256 bit memory bus magically "not an issue" with GDDR5 and the 5870?As I've said before what good is all that memory bandwidth if it's still like trying to pass a waterfall through a straw?

Memory bandwidth is important, bus width is not. Memory clockspeed is not. Could you remove that 20 line signature from your posts?

[Guest djt01]

Memory bandwidth is important, bus width is not. Memory clockspeed is not.

So you don

[Buckster 0]

stuttering - none on my 4890 :)bus width is not an issue - only bandwidth :)http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-repli...fm/1114666.html

So you don

[Guest djt01]

stuttering - none on my 4890 :)bus width is not an issue - only bandwidth :)

So your 4890 magically handles heavy weather effects in FSX better than a GXT 285 does? ASUS Rampage II Extreme (1504 BIOS) Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition w/Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme 1366 RTMushkin Redline Ascent 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) (6-6-5-18-1N)EVGA GTX 285 FTW (191.03)Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1tyWD VelociRaptor 150GB

[Guest djt01]

Well so much for the image quality improvement I was looking for from the angle-independent anisotropic filtering

[Guest UlfB]

Well so much for the image quality improvement I was looking for from the angle-independent anisotropic filtering