http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 4:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Or if you do the 4870 make sure you get 1gb ram. That way it will run the nex gen games well. ]]>Sep 23rd 2009 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/
DX10 came out, only a few games used it, very little graphical quality and in games like Resident Evil 5, there's almost no image quality difference but the DX10 version runs slower than its counter part.

I find that DX11 is simply a guise to sell us new hardware with new software revisions that won't be fully utilized to convince us our last gen hardware is obsolete to make us buy more of their shit.

But good going AMD/ATI. Intel is laying the smackdown on ya but you still keep on truckin'. Anyway, half a year later nVidia will release something to counter this to claim their Performance Crown, despite being prohibitively expensive.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=783&type=expert&pid=6]]>Sep 23rd 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/
"... the 5870 ends up being the most power-hungry single-GPU card, at 401W total system power."

"Meanwhile the 5870 CF takes the cake, beating every other configuration for a load power of 664W. If we haven’t mentioned this already we will now: if you want to run multiple 5870s, you’re going to need a good power supply."

If the "same power envelope" includes dual gpu cards, heh!! maybe. Otherwise, FAIL!]]>Sep 23rd 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/
Seeing as the Radeon 5870 performs on par with or slightly worse than the GTX 295....I'm pretty sure...it does...include dual GPU cards...that's...actually the point really. Did you read the actual reviews?]]>Sep 23rd 2009 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/
that was only 1 review (anandtech) of the 8 supplied. the other 7 report similar power consumption compared to the 4870, while being almost twice as fast.

i'd believe the majority over the single. also anandtech #'s is TOTAL system consumption. it's pretty much certain that they used different hardware to compare against previous builds which are of different components, of which they did not retest. anandtech introduced too many variables that makes their numbers UNreliable.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/
That said, HOLY **** I WANT ONE! My HD4870 feels so puny...]]>Sep 23rd 2009 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Read on hardocp for to learn some of the tech stuff, and I'm sure anand, but I didn't check that out yet.
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It uses a hell of a lot less power than all the other high end cards and runs in the 30's idle, 60's load :)]]>Sep 23rd 2009 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 4:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 4:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/ less than half of power of 4870x2.

I plan to upgrade my power supply to 500W (or more) version. 5870 would be OK, 4870x2 - not.

P.S. Official price of 5850 is $379. That is very close to the street price of two 4870: 2 * $180 = $360. But is more than $300-ish of 4870x2.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 5:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/
That alone isn't reason enough to part with $379 and swap out current card for this one. If your still thick in the head, I already own a 4870x2 this card does next to nothing for me. That should have been understood with the fist comment.
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Nevertheless, the card offers good value for the money. Cannot wait to see what 5870 X2 is capable of :)]]>Sep 23rd 2009 4:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 4:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 4:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/
Once the GPU starts to heat up the fan RPM will go up as well. The card however remains steady at roughly 42 dBA which really is a very normal noise level. Not annoying at all. So that's good as well."

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-5870-review-test/13]]>Sep 23rd 2009 4:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/Radeon_HD_5870/29.html

Quite good in idle, but a bit too noisy under load.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 4:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/
That means whatever you would get from newegg.com/etc (HIS, Sapphire and ASUS are listed) might have very different acoustic properties.

Fans are the first where most OEMs cut the costs of reference design.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 5:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 4:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/
5850 should start appearing next week.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 5:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 9th 2010 3:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 5:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 5:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 5:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 5:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/
Does that say goodbye to the 4xxx launch time promise of multi-chip future?

Because from the 58xx it seems that they are moving in the same direction as nVidia: simply cramming more stuff on the even larger die.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 24th 2009 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/
I've had good experiences with them in the past, but between charging $900+ for Intel's $440 SSD, and the games they're currently playing with the video cards (295 prices dropped to around $410 until the reviews of the 5870 came out, then the prices went up to nearly $500.) they've seen the last of my cash.


There's a line between price premiums and price gouging, AFAIC Newegg crossed it. ]]>Sep 23rd 2009 6:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/23415-sapphire-radeon-hd-5870-1gb-gddr5-review.html]]>Sep 23rd 2009 6:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/Sep 23rd 2009 7:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati-radeon-hd-5870-blazes-onto-the-scene-receives-approving-nod/
is one of these better than those?
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