AMD: R9xx Speculation

It's not actually a joke though, you're not exactly doing the PR people in either your own company nor in ATI a favour by going around saying they shouldn't have to be around. Why go there?

However, I do realise I could've been more considerate and apologise for that.

 

I don't think I ever said PR people, I meant PR stunts as we were discussing.

backup of the review:
http://s216.photobucket.com/albums/cc273/madmaxnl/2156/?start=0

The only game where the 6870 loses to the GTX470 is in FC2 19x12 8xAA, but in that one it's considerably faster than a HD5870.

 

Well I hope no one bumps into that pile…

 

nothing can be hidden on the internetz
guru3d review - http://www.mediafire.com/?m5qgbb35ysutw1y#2

NOTE: post here if this is illegal. i will remove the link

 

I checked the F@H site and they only say the new client is in internal test so far. Will be interesting to compare when it's out already.

 

From Guru3d....

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
------------------------------
Level Contingency
4x Anti-Aliasing
16x Anisotropic Filtering
All settings maxed out
1920x1200

6870 - 117
470 - 112
6850 - 101
4601GB - 91

Battlefield Bad Company 2 DX11
------------------------------
Level Upriver
DirectX 11 enabled
8x Multi-sample Anti-aliasing
16 Anisotropic filtering
All image quality settings enabled at maximum
1920x1200

6870 - 46
470 - 44
6850 - 38
4601GB - 34

Colin McRae Dirt 2
-----------------
Baja Iron Route 1
8x Anti-Aliasing
16x Anisotropic Filtering
All settings maxed out
1920x1200

6870 - 70
470 - 62
6850 - 61
4601GB - 53

Far Cry 2
---------
Level Ranch Small
high-quality DX10 mode
8x AA (Anti-aliasing)
16x AF (Anisotropic Filtering).
1920x1200

470 - 71
6870 - 69
6850 - 60
4601GB - 55

Metro 2033
-----------
1920 AAA, Physx OFF DX11

6870 - 22
470 - 21
6850 - 20
4601GB - 17

Anno 1404 - Dawn of Discovery
------------------------------
enable everything
enable the highest possible image quality settings.
DirectX 10 mode
4x Anti-Aliasing enabled.
Use campaign build mode and have built three islands with extensive sizes cities.
1920x1200

6870 - 66
470 - 58
6850 - 54
4601GB - 51

Crysis WARHEAD
----------------
Level Ambush
Codepath DX10
Anti-Aliasing 2x MSAA
In game quality mode Gamer
1920x1200 DX10

6870 - 44
470 - 42
6850 - 37
4601GB - 36

 

Prices aren't too bad for launch day.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=56&subid=1866

 

Can you post them using thumbnail?

 

http://s216.photobucket.com/albums/cc273/madmaxnl/2156/?start=0!


Crossfire seems to scale amazingly well.

 

Looks like some significant crossfire improvements. The 5870 beats the 6870, but in crossfire the 6870 edges ahead.

Of course neliz with the ninja edit beats my comment.

 

You apparently didn't get to the tesselation bit of Hiiiiiiiiiiilbert's review before it was pulled.

 

Question: Why does it say GT240?

 

In some cases CrossFire scaling > SLI scaling, Bad Company 2 for instance. Only place where CFX is lacking is in MW2.

 

Whats up with FarCry 2 even HD6850 beating HD5870? Drivers only or some other arch changes?

 

Now this bothers me a bit:
"You guys will notice that the new 6800 series cards have a plethora of monitor connectors. Quite a bit has changed. The reference design cards will carry two mini Displayport (v1.2) connectors, one HDMI 1.4a connector and two DVI connectors of which one is single link, the other dual-link.".
What if I have two monitors that need dual-link DVI? I thought that most cards that had dual DVI outputs nowadays had dual link DVI on both of them?

 

Some apps report the second GPU in the system for some reason.

 

I wasn't implying any PR stunts when I asked Dave about AMD either promoting specifically or helping to create their own gaming engine. Thanks for the links though

 

Most dual-link panels these days support DP as well. You're really looking at the 30" and the Dell 27" and the newer models carry DP.

 

The architectural stuff was sorely missing from that Guru 3D review. Looking forward to a proper article tomorrow.

 

Agreed, no clear answer about the 5D vs. 4D issue. But the picture they provide is the same as seen recently, suggests a 5D layout.