Monday, September 14th 2009
First Radeon HD 5870 Performance Figures Surface
Here are some of the first performance figures of AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 5870 published by a media source. Czech Gamer posted performance numbers of the card compared to current heavyweights including Radeon HD 4870 X2, Radeon HD 4890, and GeForce GTX 285. Having not entered an NDA with AMD, the source was liberal with its performance projections citing AMD's internal testing that include the following, apart from the two graphs below:
Sources:
Czech Gamer, ChipHell
- Radeon HD 5870 is anywhere between 5~155 percent faster than GeForce GTX 285. That's a huge range, and leaves a lot of room for uncertainty.
- When compared to GeForce GTX 295, its performance ranges between -25 percent (25% slower) to 95 percent (almost 2x faster), another broad range.
- When two HD 5870 cards are set up in CrossFire, the resulting setup is -5 percent (5% slower) to 90 percent faster than GeForce GTX 295. Strangely, the range maximum is lesser than that on the single card.
- When three of these cards are setup in 3-way CrossFireX, the resulting setup is 10~160 percent faster than a GeForce GTX 295.
- The Radeon HD 5850 on the other hand, can be -25 percent (25% slower) to 120 percent faster than GeForce GTX 285.
265 Comments on First Radeon HD 5870 Performance Figures Surface
IMO i'm not sure but it would not surprise me one bit if it was happening.
What counts at this time AMD \ATI seem like they just made another great step in the right direction if game are or not optimized for their cards.
so...
About this ageia tech.
Perform a blind test and see if users can tell their gameplay experience was better on an ati system or nvidia system(same fps numbers is required for this test)
Unless you say they should notice it, they rarely WILL.
This is fact, and i dont say, you see diffrence in some games, but rather that in most cases.
you wont.
Eyefinity might be just as much of a argument as ageia.
Never the less, there is a replacement for ageia, not for eyefinity(matrox which means extra cost !), physx is dead soon.
Cuda is not.
Yet.
Same applies for stream, nothing is going to be mainstream before BOTH have it, and i dont se any reason for anyone to really concider buying a nvidia card for something that is nvidia only and have to developed by game developers to support that technology.
Who would buy a damn car if only 10 roads were supported by the damn car.
#1. what the car is
#2. how fast the car goes
#3. if its a kit car (or not)
#4. is fuel also infinite?
#5. if there are any speed limits on these 10 roads you speak of
Or a diffrent scenario.
a car that could drive on those 10 roads and drive on the other roads, but had like 5 mph/10km/h faster speed limit, just incremental improvements.
thats about 5-7 miles in that 30 minutes.
but back on topic, im very excited about the nest gen cards from both ATI and nVidia.
a single gpu card that competes against the 295 sounds smexy!, and i know (its my opinion) nvidia's flagship single gpu card will be either as good or even better than the 5870.
on a side note i know every company is here to make money...but i would like to think that ati might be charging the prices speculated because the product is worth just that...given that the prices will drop when nvidia comes out with gt300
When Green releases their card at least we can have the same version DX. Sites can then balance out the games that favor each card. Drivers are the problem of the company's that make the card.
The problems of what systems are used to test the cards will still be open to debate, but at least we won't be using 3 v of DX.
It be super impressive.
IMO Nvidia has all the ability to win this round hands down, even when RV870 is so impressive. Ati had all the advantages with RV770 (55nm, GDDR5) and Nvidia all the disadvantages (like trying to push GPGPU by using 10% of the die area exclusively for that purpose). Even then Nvidia managed the situation very well. This time around both have the same weapons and Nvidia still has MIMD, which I don't know if it's going to be a blessing or a burden (for gaming, for GPGPU will undoubtely own). But the thing is that Nvidia has a lot of posibilities this time around.
Also I think that a dual Nvidia card was already planned from the beginning. If GTX295 could be done they will be able to make a GTX395. It's more a matter of "do we need it?".
but then again i was supprised that CAT 9.9 wasnt leaked this month eather.
By then everybody will be happy with new gen cards, that consume low power and can handle even 2500x1600 8xAA 16xAF very well, for around $200-$250 (just like when 3870 and 4870 had their first price drops).
In the end.... Nvidia or ATI, doesn't matter, because we are the truly winners.... :laugh: :toast: