AMD: R8xx Speculation

[psolord]

Does anyone know why is there this lack of 5850s in the reviews? I haven't read all of them yet, but i didn't come across any 5850 pcb photos either!

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ASUS Launches EAH5800 Series with Voltage Tweak Technology promising 38% more performance!

There are already 5850s listed at 210euros, which is a great price. If you add the voltage tweaks to them, they could be faster than the 4870X2 at about 150 euros less!

I do fear thought that the 5850s may not be using the voltera VRMs! :S

 

[Silent_Buddha]

5850 launches next week...

Regards,
SB

 

[Dave Baumann]

First DirectX 11 title:

Not a test client, just the production one, patched just today

IIRC the first DX10 patch was in the region of 3 months after Vista...?
First DX11 - a month before Windows 7!

 

[psolord]

5850 launches next week...

Regards,
SB

Oh ok. Thanks!

 

[Jawed]

BGA -- start counting boys!

1737

 

[Kaotik]

IIRC the first DX10 patch was in the region of 3 months after Vista...?
First DX11 - a month before Windows 7!

Well, in all fairness, DX10 was completely new platform, while updating your engine from DX10(.1) to 11 is a trivial job, and even if you add tesselation or some such to it, it should be a lot easier effort than completely new platform.
And Win7 has been available.. hmm, couple months I think? Via Technet & MSDN + MSDNAA

 

[Silent_Buddha]

What I'm finding fairly amazing about this launch is that despite the 5870 selling out within minutes of it being put up for sale on various sites, I haven't seen very many retailers jacking the price up to take advantage of the demand.

I was entirely expecting Newegg for example to sell it 20-60 USD more than MSRP, but that isn't happening.

I did notice that Zipzoomfly has some at 379 and some at 399, however. Tiger Direct also known for raising prices to take advantage of demand hasn't done so either.

Regards,
SB

 

[Dave Baumann]

I know one retailer that had at least 30 5870's breaking the foundation of fuads horror story

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14945517&postcount=65

 

[Davros]

battleforge, what does dx11 add ?

 

[Silent_Buddha]

battleforge, what does dx11 add ?

The only thing I know for sure is HD-SSAO via compute shaders. Possibly other stuff offloaded to compute shaders?

Where's Demirug when you need him?

Regards,
SB

 

[neliz]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14945517&postcount=65

Thanks, that's the nail in "But Fuad's objective!" coffin.

 

[R300King!]

Does anyone know why is there this lack of 5850s in the reviews? I haven't read all of them yet, but i didn't come across any 5850 pcb photos either!

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ASUS Launches EAH5800 Series with Voltage Tweak Technology promising 38% more performance!

There are already 5850s listed at 210euros, which is a great price. If you add the voltage tweaks to them, they could be faster than the 4870X2 at about 150 euros less!

I do fear thought that the 5850s may not be using the voltera VRMs! :S

TechPowerUp! has review of the 5850 I think. http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/Radeon_HD_5870/

 

[Arty]

Thanks, that's the nail in "But Fuad's objective!" coffin.

You think, I'm pretty sure Deg, Scali, Florin & Razor still think that.

 

[trinibwoy]

But then - did Nvidia mention "dual rasterizers" in their launch presentations?

Exactly! Both companies have been scaling scan conversion throughput for years without anybody claiming they've added more rasterizers. Which is why they surely have to be referring to something else

 

[sunscar]

Er, one question - So far I've found video of the OIT demo, some semi-low quality footage of the ladybug demo, but not much else. Anybody have any leads on any other videos?

 

[Jawed]

Does it matter how it's stated? If the chip is capable of setting up one triangle per clock and producing 32 pixels per clock that's all you really need to know. Did anyone talk about the required increase in rasterization throughput when Nvidia went to 32 ROPs?

That's naive. What if half the GPU's clusters go idle because with two rasterisers, each only feeding half the clusters, one side is rejecting loads of fragments in hierarchical-Z while the other isn't. Sure this is a bizarre corner case. But this is the kind of stuff you can play with.

Jawed

 

[trinibwoy]

How does any of that have any bearing on the marketing?

 

[wishiknew]

Finally. Page 9 of guru3d's article is a silicon nudie pic.

 

[bowman]

Finally. Page 9 of guru3d's article is a silicon nudie pic.

Looks more like a Phenom II/Shanghai wafer to me..

 

[cho]

IIRC the first DX10 patch was in the region of 3 months after Vista...?
First DX11 - a month before Windows 7!

does the DX11 path improve framerate or effect or both in this patch ?