I wonder if AMD has no issue with PowerColor unlocking 6950 to 6970.
http://www.nordichardware.com/news/...ches-radeon-hd-6950-that-unlocks-shaders.html
http://www.nordichardware.com/news/...ches-radeon-hd-6950-that-unlocks-shaders.html
AMD: R9xx Speculation
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Reviewed here, http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...50-pcs-graphics-card-review-introduction.html
Powercolor gave it 6970 core speed but chose no VRAM overclocking...of which i heard...some flashed 6950 artifacts with it...i guess GDDR5 rated @ 5gbps is pretty much "it". PCB seem shorter...I wonder how the bios switching works....with ma Cayman ProXT...whenever i switch bios..i need to reinstall Catalyst...
I see from a marketing angle....unlockable Cayman is the best bet against SOC GF114...AMD should not have a "problem" with it...
Powercolor gave it 6970 core speed but chose no VRAM overclocking...of which i heard...some flashed 6950 artifacts with it...i guess GDDR5 rated @ 5gbps is pretty much "it". PCB seem shorter...I wonder how the bios switching works....with ma Cayman ProXT...whenever i switch bios..i need to reinstall Catalyst...
I see from a marketing angle....unlockable Cayman is the best bet against SOC GF114...AMD should not have a "problem" with it...
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Unlocked Radeon HD6950 to 6970 has a memory limitation. (It was NOT able to perform at the same level as Radeon HD6970) "Look at FPS"
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...hd-6950-pcs-graphics-card-review-mafia-2.html
Unlocked Radeon HD6950 to 6970 has a memory limitation. (It was NOT able to perform at the same level as Radeon HD6970) "Look at FPS"
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...hd-6950-pcs-graphics-card-review-mafia-2.html
Maybe OEMs have ordered so many of them that there aren't enough cards for a retail launch yet?
Or AMD has to get rid of some 5xxx stock first?
DarthShader
Regular
There's hardly any competition from nVidia in this performance range. The GT440 is beaten by a cheaper 5670 already, so why bother with new stuff?
Maybe they'll wait for the Llano release?
Maybe they'll wait for the Llano release?
Blazkowicz
Legend
there's some competition from nvidia.. the geforce gt240.it even is faster than its replacement.
pretty disappointed, I would have got a gt430 if it had 8 ROPs
pretty disappointed, I would have got a gt430 if it had 8 ROPs
You might as well grab a 9800GT at that point. But since that's a waste of money, you should save your money and just spring for a GTS 450 or GTX 460 IMO.
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Which is no doubt getting phased out by nVidia as soon as possible
The GTS 450 is a piece of shit as far I'm concerned. It replaces the GTS 250, and yet is around the same speed.
Fucking shameful.
To me, this says one of two things: 1. The Fermi architecture is more reliant on its drivers being tuned for the specific version of the chip it's in than perhaps any architecture before it. 2. It just doesn't scale down.
Blazkowicz
Legend
radeon 5750 is same speed as the 4850 too.
it's okay, if you don't look at power use and die size.
it reminds me of the G80 and early R600 derivates - those were panned as well. Fermi is a transistor-hungry architecture in a similar way.
I did buy a gt240 512MB gddr5 as it was only 66 euros and the gt430 with big cooler was out of stock.
it should be good for 1024x768 gaming with no cooling/case expense.
it's okay, if you don't look at power use and die size.
it reminds me of the G80 and early R600 derivates - those were panned as well. Fermi is a transistor-hungry architecture in a similar way.
I did buy a gt240 512MB gddr5 as it was only 66 euros and the gt430 with big cooler was out of stock.
it should be good for 1024x768 gaming with no cooling/case expense.
OpenGL guy
Veteran
Or price?
itsmydamnation
Veteran
my guess is they are going to do something to make getting eyefinity working on DVI-A/VGA monitors much harder and far mroe confusing!!!!
You're forgetting that the 5750 is not the replacement for the 4850. The 5850 is, and it's quite a bit better.
Blazkowicz
Legend
then the replacement of the GTS 250 is the GTX 460.
duh
duh
then the replacement of the GTS 250 is the GTX 460.
duh
huh?
Well we had the GF9500, GF8600, R2600, R3650 as the nasty disappointments before. But they were cheap eventually. If you aren't a gamer, then you might as well just use an IGP. If you are a gamer well then probably best not to drop below the $100 cards really....
Whenever they throw in major new features we seem to get the inevitable nasty "midrange" chip that completely sucks. This phenomenon has made me ponder what it would be like if for the mid/low stuff they'd built 55nm DX9 SM3 chip at some point. That'd be something to see considering transistors went further back then and today's games are still mostly DX9. But it wouldn't fulfill the OEM checklists and as such it simply can never happen. That is sort of what GF4MX and Radeon 7500 were to their high-end counterparts but DX7/8 mattered a hell of a lot less than DX9.
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caveman-jim
Regular
Retail channel versions coming in Q2.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
then the replacement of the GTS 250 is the GTX 460.
duh
Uh, unless Nvidia are doing the same ridiculous name and performance category shuffling as AMD, the logical successor to the GTS 250 would be the 450.
The GTX 460 should be an upgrade for the GTX 260.
Hell the GTS 250 doesn't even carry the performance GTX prefix.
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