Later this month, the Radeon HD 5XXX series cards will be released. But some details have already been released:
HD 4870
HD 4890
HD 5850
HD 5870
Process
55-nm
55-nm
40-nm
40-nm
Chip Size
260mm2
282mm2
338mm2
338mm2
GPU Speed
750 MHz
850 MHz
725 MHz
825 MHz
Memory Speed
900 MHz
975 MHz
1000 MHz
1300 MHz
Stream Processors
800
800
1440
1600
Processing Power
1200 Gigaflops
1360 Gigaflops
2088 Gigaflops
2640 Gigaflops
SPU's
40
40
72
80
Texture Fill Rate
30.0 MT/s
34.0 MT/s
52.2 MT/s
66.0 MT/s
ROP's
16
16
32
32
Pixel Fill Rate
12.0 MP/s
13.6 MP/s
23.2 MP/s
26.4 MP/s
Memory Interface
256 Bit GDDR5
256 Bit GDDR5
256 Bit GDDR5
256 Bit GDDR5
Memory Bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
124.8 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
166.4 GB/s
Feast your eyes!
As you can all see, the HD 5870 is rumoured to have twice the processing power of an HD 4870! It will also be larger, so most probably launch prices will be higher than what the HD 4870 was, though the 40-nm process should help reduce the cost. It also seems to be quite a large card, about the size of an HD 4870x2.
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Comments
Alcom4c
12-Sep-09 19:24:23
@ bob, performance or not, pc game releases have really slowed down, and the few games that are getting released, any 3+ series card can run with ease, consoles are holding the pc back, right now as much as I love shiny new graphic cards, I?'d rather spend it on a console than a vga, because theres simply too few games coming out.
Bobby
13-Sep-09 16:29:32
That's another argument Alcom, but it's impossible not to expect higher performance than current ones. You do need that performance if you're using a 1080p screen at high image quality..
DriftKing
13-Sep-09 17:52:50
that is a huge card
Cold Fusion
17-Sep-09 11:00:55
too bad ma nifimx fl' ATI xS
Bobby
17-Sep-09 20:41:15
"too bad ma nifimx fl' ATI xS " Lol no expertise required, just read a few reviews and you'll get used to what their Nvidia equivalents are xD 5850 looks so gorgeuos. I'll skip this series though, it's good to get 'green' sometimes
