Monday, August 24th 2009
Radeon HD 5870 Aggressively Priced: Report
According to a fresh report by Donanim Haber, AMD's next performance graphics accelerator, the Radeon HD 5870, codenamed "Cypress" is expected to be aggressively priced, at US $299. At that price, it intends to be highly competitive against GeForce GTX 285 from NVIDIA. The secret-sauce behind the price could be the 40 nm fab process on which the GPU is being built, which allows upping transistor counts while maintaining significantly smaller die-sizes compared to 55 nm.
There is a great deal of uncertainty surrounding the specifications of the GPU, including what level of performance with existing application could it end up offering. Some sources, such as ChipHell, which are one of the first to leak pictures of components related to various Evergreen family products claim the Cypress GPU to have an almost 100% increase in stream processor counts compared to RV770, while others remain conservative expecting it to be around 50%. With this kind of a pricing, Cypress could trigger market-wide changes in GPU pricing, if it ends up with a good price/performance ratio at $299.
Cypress is expected to be launched on 22 September, close to two weeks after the company unveils the Evergreen family of DirectX 11 compliant GPUs on September 10. Market availability is expected in October. In related news from the same report, the enthusiast-grade accelerator that uses two of these GPUs, codenamed "Hemlock", is expected to be out in November.
There is a great deal of uncertainty surrounding the specifications of the GPU, including what level of performance with existing application could it end up offering. Some sources, such as ChipHell, which are one of the first to leak pictures of components related to various Evergreen family products claim the Cypress GPU to have an almost 100% increase in stream processor counts compared to RV770, while others remain conservative expecting it to be around 50%. With this kind of a pricing, Cypress could trigger market-wide changes in GPU pricing, if it ends up with a good price/performance ratio at $299.
Cypress is expected to be launched on 22 September, close to two weeks after the company unveils the Evergreen family of DirectX 11 compliant GPUs on September 10. Market availability is expected in October. In related news from the same report, the enthusiast-grade accelerator that uses two of these GPUs, codenamed "Hemlock", is expected to be out in November.
197 Comments on Radeon HD 5870 Aggressively Priced: Report
Oh well. I'll just wait till the price comes down. Maby by Christmas there will be some good deals on them. :toast:
So if we take the 800SPs of the rv770 and multiply it with 1,375, we end up at 1100, which is not dividable by 80, Thus rounding the final number to 1120 or going for a bit bigger die and ending up at 1200SPs.
Not sure if nm scales work like that tho :)
I'm pretty sure ATi will keep going with the same strategy for their chips - if not completely able to beat the nVidia giants, can at least compete at a price/performance point
Lynnfield i5-750 199EUR , listed in GERMANY , ready for shipping . PErformance wise , still < i7 920 .
MSI P55-GD80, P55 priced at 195 EUR , listed in GERMANY , ready for shipping .
Now , thats 394EUR .
ASRock X58 Extreme, X58 listed at 132EUR price point .
Intel Core i7-920 listed at 225EUR price point .
Now , thats 357EUR.
They dumped tripple channel memory , so you buy "cheaper" dual channel .. whatever ..
So i can sacrifice tripple channel , buy myself a decent cooler , overclock the 920 , and use the ASRock X58 Extreme ( high end board actually ) , enjoy sli or CF at full speed . Now where is that milestone that intel was talking about ? What i3 dual core that are performing just like the e8400 and will cost 5EUR less ?
So now moovig forward to AMD . Introducing a really high end chipset , bla bla bla , priced somewhere around 230 and give me the same performance as a HD4870X2 ? I DON'T THINK SO .
They will have to cut the HD4870 price at send it in the sub 90EUR zone . THAT IS NOT GOING to happen . NOT ! they have to keep some kind of balance between GPU`s . In my oppinion they will offer a little more boost in terms of performance , dx11 support , lower power consumption , and that`s it . AMD is not making charity actions !
£299.99 = $492.51
Man thats a crazy ripoff.
It's just a back and forth thing, no ones playing into any game, the later product usually should be faster, thats why its later. But remember there is a 4890 right now, and with ATi having what sounds like a 4 to 6 month lead on a 40nm chip, they might have a barn burner 5890 ready to hit the market by the time Nvidia even joins them with a DX11 40nm GPU.
The HD4870 was around £200 on release. I bought the HD4850 on release at £120. US price of both cards were $299 and $199 respectively.
The £:$ exchange rate is slightly worse this time around though. So prices will be a bit higher.