AMD: R8xx Speculation

Especially when 512MB of slower GDDR5 is $13.30 (the 4870). Also I have a hard time believing that GDDR3 is more expensive than GDDR5

 

What's up with the RV790 GPU price?

 

I think it is what the board-makers pay, that price is only indirectly connected to the actual manufacturing cost of the chip. They will have to pay more for a faster even if it costs less for AMD or NVIDIA to produce than the slower version.

 

It that because of the contract signed between AMD and Qimonda, AMD and Hynix ?

 

4890 power circuit is build all around not one but two Volterra controllers, so there is some justification, me thinks.

 

High performance process and additional tape out cost ( so the die size of the RV970 is bigger and expensive than its predecessor.

 

I'm betting on Eyefinity being true multi-monitor support.

Renders ftl:

 

Great pic - it's not a render ....

Too many details for anyone to be bother to put them on render pic for forum.
1x6pin power means TDP under 150W - nice
Heat sink looks heavy
I wonder why they feel the need to add that small radiator connected to 2 heat pipes at the bottom of the card? Is there something on PCB generating a lot of heat?

 

It is a render. Shadowing is too predictable (not even objects in a lightbox cast shadows that that direct in the presence of ambient lighting too)

 

It's even a couple of months old already. You have to wonder if they are that slow over at chiphell...

 

So this will be Radeon HD5850 GE (Grey Edition)?

 

Rumour-ish: AMD DX11 Cypress is Radeon HD 5870 & HD 5850

 

No rumor but the real thing.

 

But that way is more exciting!

 

You know where you heard it First

 

Some things VR-Zone didn't mention yet:

- display outputs: DVI/DVI/DP or DVI/HDMI/DP. ATi Eyefinity support as of Cat 9.10 (8.66). Converter is included.
- "Feel the power of more than 2 teraFLOPS plowing through the most demanding games."
- "Get up to 1.8X of a graphics performance boost with ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode."

So basically all the branding info partners need to make their boxes and stuff.

Also have info about first LRB sampledates to partners, but that's for another topic I guess.

 

well, I was very wrong then

Anyway someone had too much free time to build objects or 3D scanner/access to CAD drawings...

@CJ - so can I read 2TFlop+ as for slowest Cypressboard with more ++ for top of the range model?

I can see a nice 5TFlop number for X2 card.

 

I thought we were talking about Cypress XT?

shouldn't we be talking about 6TF then for the highest end?

 

Probably not, those are likely from the AMD cad files used for various simulations for thermals and mechanical analysis.

 

If the highest end consists of an odd number of chips yes