AMD: R8xx Speculation

[Arty]

Charlie is saying the following regarding 5870 leaks may not be accurate.

How about DX11 functionality, basically more per shader * 1600. Add in a tessellator, some other shaders, and voila, you are somewhere in the ballpark. Or you could say there are things in the chip that haven't been fully leaked yet.

What could that be?

Spoiler

Magic pixies?

Also is the Evergreen press deck over 100 pages? Thanks neliz for the benchmarks.

 

[AlNom]

Obviously, they haven't revealed the extreme memory bus.

 

[Arty]

Obviously, they haven't revealed the extreme memory bus.

w0mbat still holding on to 512b hopes.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

I'm hoping there's some bacon in there that hasn't been leaked yet... Mmmmmm, BACON. Mmmmmmm... /drool...

Regards,
SB

 

[sethk]

Can I put anyone down for 384 bit bus? I don't think that slot's taken yet.

 

[Arty]

Can I put anyone down for 384 bit bus? I don't think that slot's taken yet.

No. Frame buffer of 1GB, 2GB suggests its not 384b.

 

[hoom]

What could that be?

Compute & Hull shaders presumably

 

[Kaotik]

No. Frame buffer of 1GB, 2GB suggests its not 384b.

It doesn't suggest, it downright confirms it's 256bit or 512bit (it's not 128bit )

 

[TOAO_Cyrus]

Anyone know if there will be reviews posted at midnight?

 

[mapel110]

Anyone know if there will be reviews posted at midnight?

No official Reviews before Sep. 23 - 6 a.m. CET, afaik.

But maybe there are a few websides, that want to generate some extra page hits.

 

[trinibwoy]

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10011217&prodlist=celebros

Dirt 2 coupon? What's up with ATI and coupons?

The spec page mentions 5200Mhz memory on a 256-bit bus. Wouldn't take that as gospel since it also says the card only has 800 SPs.

 

[doob]

Since I don't think that patch adds WDDM 1.1 support to Vista, the performance still should be the same.

I read on several websites that it adds WDDM 1.1 support and it should bring improvements on performance from the revised DirectX runtime code being optimized for multi-core/threaded systems.

Im just curious on how much of an impact it will have, hence why i wrote how i'd like to see those benchmarks re-done after the update is released for vista.

 

[Kaotik]

I read on several websites that it adds WDDM 1.1 support and it should bring improvements on performance from the revised DirectX runtime code being optimized for multi-core/threaded systems.

Im just curious on how much of an impact it will have, hence why i wrote how i'd like to see those benchmarks re-done after the update is released for vista.

The multithreadthing is DX11, not WDDM 1.1

 

[DegustatoR]

Since I don't think that patch adds WDDM 1.1 support to Vista, the performance still should be the same.

What's WDDM 1.1 has to do with game performance?

 

[fellix]

Better memory resource management?

 

[dizietsma]

I guess £299 will be the price in the UK, or there abouts for the 5870.

 

[fellix]

 

[ants]

NCIX has a Gigabyte 5870 listed for 433.99 CAD (price changes to 9999.99 after page load).

 

[nutball]

I guess £299 will be the price in the UK, or there abouts for the 5870.

£329-349 more like

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Woohoo, twenty one and a half hours and counting.