ATI HD5870 Specification and price

[Cherrycooki]

AMD finally delivers us the specification of its new next generation graphics card, hd5870 very high gamma for super pass GTX295. Finally, information from ArabHardware.net suggests a pricing model on three of the first SKUs based on Cypress: HD 5870 2 GB, HD 5870 1 GB, and HD 5850 1 GB. All three use the same GPU and memory standard (GDDR5), but differ in clock speeds and GPU configurations.

While HD 5870 sports 1600 stream processors, 80 TMUs, and 32 ROPs, HD 5850 has 1440 stream processors, 72 TMUs, and 32 ROPs. Although 32 ROPs puzzles us for a 256-bit wide memory interface, we suspect low-level design changes that make "32 ROPs" more of an effective count than an absolute count. While HD 5870 features over 800 MHz core clock and 5.20 GHz memory, its little sibling has over 700 MHz core clock and 4.40 GHz memory. Price points expected are US $449 for Radeon HD 5870 2 GB, $399 for HD 5870 1 GB, and $299 for HD 5850.

[David23]

Regarding the dual GPU, it would be expected, and then things get really interesting. ATI will use the principle of Intel and Pentium D , ie 2 cores stacked one on another, a feat achieved because of an engraving to 40 mm. But hope that this technique does not penalize ATI as was the case of the D series which warmed dramatically.

[Team Leader]

HD5xxx should be engraved in 40 mm and receive about 25% of shadered. The computing power increases to 1.5 TeraFlops which is pretty impressive compared du1 TeraFlops of 4870. Its code name "Lil Dragon", in reference to the fine print of its GPU Would have a Die to 205 mm, compared to the RV770 is engraved with the GTX280 and 256mm to 576mm.