AMD: R8xx Speculation

[Demirug]

Battleforge 2560x1600 4xAA 8xAF HD 5870: 32.7 GTX 295: Crash

Strange this bug was fixed long time ago. Beside of this I am quite sure that this wasn’t the DX11 version.

 

[Arty]

Battleforge 2560x1600 4xAA 8xAF
HD 5870: 32.7
GTX 295: Crash

Lots more in there.

 

[ferro]

Leakage galore on my homeforum: http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_message/32575530#32575530 (be sure to scroll down)

Those Crossfire results are amazing if true:

 

[Davros]

Those Crossfire results are amazing if true:

Really looks like +20% on average

 

[CJ]

The architecture slides are more interesting. Being leaked as we speak.

 

[nutball]

The architecture slides are more interesting. Being leaked as we speak.

Still waiting for the slide that says "revolutionary dual-core architecture"

 

[ferro]

Really looks like +20% on average

Compared to a GTX295 SLI? Maybe.

But in absolute terms you can play any game in 2560x1600 4/8xAA 16xAF with high (and hopefully smooth) frame rates.

 

[trinibwoy]

Wow depending on the game 8xAA is almost free on the 5850 (compared to 4x).

 

[ferro]

The architecture slides are more interesting. Being leaked as we speak.

"Fast GDDR5 Link Retraining - Allows Voltage & Clock Switching on the Fly without Glitches"

That explains the rumored low idle power consumption (compared to previous GDDR5 products from ATi).

 

[trinibwoy]

Just saw the architectural stuff. At that high level it certainly seems to be RV770 on steroids as rumoured. Where are the tessellator slides! Oh and let me take this opportunity to apologize for any slight in the past against the gods at tweakers.net

 

[Alistair]

So can I divide those numbers by 3 to see how things will run on my 3x1 12x19 setup?

 

[wishiknew]

I was going to take a day off next week too. Any thing else left to leak?

 

[trinibwoy]

Well yeah we don't know anything about IQ improvements yet....

 

[CarstenS]

Supersampling alone should be a hell of an improvement.

 

[Scrat]

By ratatosksen

Tombstone on dual-core rumors

 

[FrameBuffer]

Well yeah we don't know anything about IQ improvements yet....

what of the supposed return of ssaa ? I would consider that a major IQ improvement (personal preference.. always preferred supersampling over multi)

DOH.. slow at responding I 'spose

 

[trinibwoy]

what of the supposed return of ssaa?

Oh I didn't hear of that rumour before....but that's not really new (as an Nvidia user). I'm talking about NEW stuff

 

[doob]

What happened to the new (or improved) anisotropic filtering method? No info on that either...

 

[FrameBuffer]

Oh I didn't hear of that rumour before....but that's not really new (as an Nvidia user). I'm talking about NEW stuff

http://rage3d.com/board/showpost.php?p=1336012881&postcount=1002

I think orginating from here:
http://translate.google.ch/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbbs.chiphell.com%2Fviewthread.php%3Ftid%3D54388%26extra%3Dpage%253D1&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&hl=de&ie=UTF-8

 

[trinibwoy]

Oh, texture units reading from the compressed AA buffer for supersampling?