Details of ATI’s next high-end graphics card, the Radeon 5870, have surfaced on the webs. The new chip, also known as the RV870, is expected to hit stores in the US on Tuesday 22nd September and in Europe on the 23rd. The HD 5850 will launch on the same day.
If the specs, surfaced on Fudzilla are correct, the Radeon 5870 will feature a 40nm GPU instead of the 55nm processor found on current gen units. This should equal cooler running temps which will hopefully translate into high overclocking potential.
First leaked image of the ATI Radeon HD 5870
According to the site, the 5870 will also feature:
* 825 Mhz core clock speed (725 Mhz for the 5850)
* Option of 1GB or 2GB of GDDR5 running at 1300 MHz (effectively 5200 MHz)
* 1600 shader processors (compared with 800 on the current HD 4870)
* 32 ROPS (compared with 16 on the HD 4870)
* 48 TMUs (compared with 40 on the HD 4870)
* 2.1 TFlops of effective computational potential (around double the TFlops offered by the HD 4870)
* Native DirectX 11 Support
The Radeon 5850 X2 is expected to follow about a month later.
This isn't a 5870, sorry, but it looks nice and fills some space.
#1 by JaneRadriges on June 13th, 2009
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#2 by Migs on September 19th, 2009
Big Bad Rad 4870 X2!
I cant wait for the BIG BAD RAD 5870 X2!
As for the specs specified by ATI on its 5870 x2, It clearly says it’s equivalent to four 4870 performing in CrossFireX mode or two 4870 X2 in CrossFireX mode. Also it supports DX11 and Shader 5 which we already know though right now no PC games are running under it and we’ll just have to wait for many months for those new game titles to come out that supports these technologies.
Well, what about the power consumption??? Good question actually!
A single 5870 X2 GDDR 5 consumes a whooping 366 watts of power at load and 52 watts at idle. Dang! 366 watts for a single 5870 X2? What about the 5870 X2 in CorssFireX?
Well, 366 + 366 = 732 watts! Chances are it will require 1200 watts or higher PSU in order to crank two of these in crossfireX mode so the other components and peripherals of your gaming rig will have enough power to handle its tasks when in full load.
Fortunately a 700 watt branded PSU can rock a single 5870 X2 which is think (IMO) is enough to play the latest very demanding pc games @ very very high settings and its FSAA and AA filtering set to its max (based on what the games can offer).
Even if your rig is running on an overclocked i7 extreme edition processor with 3 sticks of Tripple channel DDR 3 ram and 2 SATA II hard drives, 2 optical DVD drives and an 8 high performance 120mm 2,000++ rpm fans that includes 2 CPU cooler fan and an external fan controller and some other usb peripherals including a gaming keyboard and mouse.
So if you have a 700 watt PSU and you want to buy a 5870 x2 to upgrade your gaming experience to da max and you have a quad core overclocked processor, Worry no more because you’re still in! And you dont have to buy those 850-1000 watt expensive PSU’s.
#3 by Dan on September 22nd, 2009
You sound even more excited about it than I am, Migs. Thanks for posting.
#4 by Evol on September 22nd, 2009
It’s Sept. 22nd….Where’s the 5870 ???
#5 by Dan on September 22nd, 2009
At all good hardware retailers now!
I admit we were a day off. I think there might have been some confusion over US and European dates. Sorry for any inconvenience.
#6 by Jack on September 24th, 2009
The techtree site announces the XFX HD 5870 graphics card.