ATI just announced its latest greatest polygon cruncher on the planet: the
previously leaked Radeon HD 5970. The new card card is also one of the first to support Microsoft DirectX 11 and Eyefinity multi-display (driving up to three displays at once for a 7680x1600 maximum resolution) with ripe potential for overclocking thanks to the card's Overdrive technology. Instead of relying upon a single GPU like the already scorching
Radeon HD 5870, the 5970 brings a pair of Cypress GPUs linked on a single board by a PCI Express bridge for nearly 5 TeraFLOPS of computer power, or a mind boggling 10 TeraFLOPS when setup in CrossFireX. Naturally, the card's already been put to the test by all the usual benchmarking nerds who praise the card as the undisputed performance leader regardless of game or application. It even manages to keep power consumption in check until you start rolling on the voltage to ramp those clock speeds. As you'd expect then, ATI isn't going to offer any breaks on pricing so you can expect to pay the full $599 suggested retail price when these cards hit shelves today for retail or as part of your new gaming rig bundle.
posted November 18th 2009 1:49AM
nVidiwho?
No kidding. The GTX 295 isn't even close.
I don't know. But will it blend? that is the question...
Yes, and it purees too.
Actually it comes equipped with the blender / small turbine engine in the rear. Gotta keep this shit cool somehow.
Oh man. The fact that the red camp released their almighty dual-gpu solution waaaaaaay before the green camp could even get their single-gpu out to the market is already a serious blow.
Don't even get me started with the benchmarks! :O Oh how fast the mighty have fallen.
You said it... My single GPU 5870 is already a beast and it stacks up fairly well to the GTX 295 despite it only being a single GPU and now this just blows it out of the water. AMD has given Nvidia a serious run at the graphics card market.
The GTX 295 came out in the beginning of 2009. The simple fact that it took them this long to beat nvidia in performance is nothing to be proud of.
And the core the 295 is based on came out first half of 2008. It has held the performance crown right until September 2009 when ATI released the 5870.
Talk about over blowing a performance victory.
Do you guys even read the reviews the premature drivers practically cripple this card, until drivers improves if and when they do it isn't worth considering.
:'( and that leaves my poor pair of 4870's choking on the dust
Next computer objective: Eyefinity project - 3x1080p in portrait orientation + 1x5970 or 2x5870
Due: 1 year or after release of HD 6000 series
doit!
@(Unverified) And so the battle for the fastest video card continues. This release is truly remarkable for ATI. Thinking that Nvidia has been
2 steps ahead with them last year. The 5970 sounds really beastly, doesn't it?
Hi-res pictures + detailed benchmark of Radeon 5970: http://bit.ly/worlds-fastest-video-card-made-by-radeon-very-remarkable
Crysis 2 here we come!
How is this the first to support DX11 and Eyefinity when 57xx and 58xx are already around?
"one of the first"
reading comprehension failed...
@thedesp There is no such thing as "one of the first". You have first, and then you have second. You can't be 'one of the first'. Think about it.
wow! 300W power hog
People who are in the marked for the world's fastest graphics card aren't really too concerned with how much juice they're sucking.
i want one of these bad. im going to try my best to skip the 5000 series all together and jump on the 6970 the day it comes out. we'll see how that goes...
Yea but it sipps merely 47W when idle.
They call that saving... A complete Acer timeline lives on less juice when crunching like crazy...
Though comparing it with other grafic monsters this is actually very little power.
M.
@kurian: yea... but no... The 5870 is faster than the GTX295 which is a dual-GPU card. And now AMD has a dual-gpu card based on 2 5870s months ahead of any NVIDIA DX11 card.
@Ahmad
Actually, the two GPUs in 5970 are not same as the GPU in a 5850 or a 5870 graphics card. I think the GPU in 5970 is called 5860X2.
@Exenter
Actually, it's 2 5870 GPUs, at the clock speeds of a 5850. See : http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2009/11/18/amd-ati-radeon-hd-5970-review/2
do want with 4gb gddr5 and 6 outputs
heck for most monitors you don't even need more than 1 GB of video ram
The extra memory is used for textures - keeping them in video memory means the CPU doesn't have to load it from system memory as often.
Good for ATI/AMD. They've been punched in the face for like two years and now they seem to have gotten their crap together. I'm still an Nvidia fanboy, since the Riva128, but at least there's some hot competition these days :)
Same here brother if only could keep their pimp hand strong and make some decent ass laptop processors maybe I would jump ship myself
but until then Toshiba makes a pretty good laptop with Intel/nVidia sadly, two of the biggest douche co. ever yet they make the top of the line shit.
Peace and Hair Gear brother
This is nothing great. It took them 1 and a half YEARS to make something that is faster than the GTX 280. Its only obvious that its faster than all the nVidia cards. When the GF100 comes out it will demolish this, and the GX2 version will grind it into dust.
Its like saying the Phenom II x4 is a big deal because it finally beats the Q6600 at stock speed. So what? The Q6600 came out years ago.
@Jared definitely with you on that one, but i'm pretty sure AMD's still taking a beating from Intel and the only competent thing they've been fighting back with is litigation.
You don’t point out the inclusion of mini-DisplayPort which is the first time we’ve seen this new VESA DP spec used. Also, they have dropped HDMI which was on the 5870 along with 2 DVI and DisplayPort.
Can’t this push than 3 monitors since the DP spec can daisy chain displays?
@Bender Bending Rodriguez
Actually, Apple have been using Mini-DisplayPort for quite some time now.
@André
I’m aware of that, but when Apple made mDP it wasn’t part of the spec. VESA readily adopted it after Apple released their new Macs and the new spec including mDP didn’t actually become until a week or two ago. This is the first product I’ve seen that included it outside of Apple. This is important because while DP would surely be readily adopted as the future of computer display tech mDP’s future is less assured.
this looks very nice and makes me look forward to whats to come down the road i have been an ATI fan for a long time im glad they are back in the game
Awesome. Skynet can now render its human extinction simulations faster than ever before.
There's an nVidia Tesla for that!
The AMD 5970 beats any nVidia Tesla hands back.
Now if the Fermi based Tesla will ever see the light of day this may change again, but that's a while to go.
If Skynet is worth their press they should be done way before that :-)
M.
That won't fit in my case =(
But then again it costs as much as my case and almost everything inside...
That...that's what she said!
*sigh*
Wow, what an avatar.
underage
Why are you using your little sister's picture as your avatar?
some random guy on the net.
why not use a test bed?
@Peytral
HEY,
I bet mine would fit in your "CASE", with room to spare, mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
"ATI Radeon HD 5970: world's fastest graphics card confirmed"
..until nVidia releases it's new flagship graphics card.
next year *sigh*
ATI Christmas eat your hearts out :/
IF nVidia decides to ever release Fermi.
With the solid delay Fermi has, it may almost be AMD that will release a faster card before...
M.
I've actually read several places that Nvidia is having some serious engineering troubles with the new series of cards. It could just be the usual slander that gets tossed back and forth between the two companies, but it sounds like they might be pulling an AMD (with respect to the processor fiasco that happen a lil while back).
I'll post the articles if I can find them. Shame too, I personally have always bought their products.
Signs are it will be the fastest graphics card until ATI release a faster one.
Yeah... Until nVidia releases it next year + give or take a few months. They're probably scared like shit right now fearing anything they release immediately in an attempt to counter the HD 5xxx series will be a failure. They can still come up with a good-looking excuse though: it takes a while to develop GPUs.
Too bad though. When nVidia releases their GT300 cards they'll be ambushed again by the HD 6xxx cards, and then they'll be trounced again.
ATI has got the game now... and when nVidia finally does catch up and surpass, ATI will just cut there price $100 making them the best card for the price... win win on ATIs (and consumers) front... they have done it before and they will do it again.