Wednesday, September 9th 2009
AMD Cypress Graphics Accelerator Pictured
Here's the first sighting of a fully-assembled upcoming AMD Cypress "Radeon HD 5870" accelerator. This photo-shoot comes a couple of days ahead of its unveiling to the press tomorrow. Here's our very first thoughts on what we see:
* Images removed at request of AMD *
Source:
Tweakers.net
- The accelerator is unusually long for a single-GPU one from AMD. The company wouldn't splurge too much on aesthetics (especially lengthening the PCB), if there's no need for it to do so. Apparently there is.
- Connectivity options galore. With two DVI-D, and one each of DisplayPort and HDMI, AMD promises it can handle three display-heads per GPU.
- The components behind the GPU area (exposed) indicates the GPU to be somewhat large
- History tells us that AMD uses a backplate only if it finds a real utility in it, such as cooling additional memory chips or VRM components. This card has a large, almost full-coverage backplate.
* Images removed at request of AMD *
188 Comments on AMD Cypress Graphics Accelerator Pictured
what do you think they packed in there? surely no gummi bears:laugh:
Maybe that's how they can make the exhaust vent so small without to much bother?
That was the end of the Xtreme subfix :shadedshu
I guess it stands for extremely power hungry. :p
I like the vents! :)
NVIDIA
DX11 cards from ATi looks promising
625mhz core
1GB GDDR5 5Ghz 160 GB/s
1600 shaders
Triput (Dual DVI-D+HDMI+DisplayPort)
ATI can make twice as many on a waffel than nvidia can ;)
So the 5870 is basically a single gpu 4870x2?
Only real thing that comes to mind is to cut costs :(.
Anyway, I am largely against the high-end coolers made by both ATi and nVidia. Arctic Cooling's excuse (when they stopped manufacturing them to exhaust out the back, their primary selling point for the longest time) had to do with the air pressure difference between the inside of the case and the outside. It's certainly a thought, to be sure, though I'm pretty sure few (if any) people on this forum (including myself) are qualified to do much more than speculate on it.
Regardless though, death to those fans!! Why aren't the blades longer, anyway? Especially if they're going to utilize the side (or better yet the bottom) for intake, they don't need to leave that much space between the blades and the bearing.