Looks like ATi hit the mark on this one... 159.99 from newegg! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102858 Now all we have to do is wait for benchmarks from Bit and we are set on determining how well this card is priced, even with the crazy mark-ups.
the 1gb 5750 on there as well... looks like both will offer near or slightly better performance than the 4870. be interesting if the 5750 could pull it out. very compact card.
Even if it doesn't, the power reqs are low enough and the performance is high enough to warrant a purchase.
SAPPHIRE 5750 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102859&nm_mc=OTC-RSS Thought I throw up the link to the 5750 as well. Now i wish I waited 3 more months and got the 5770 for the same price as the 4870, but that is the nature of the beast.
Overclockersclub has a review. The 5770 overclocks well it seems and runs a tic behind the 4890 in performance. They didn't compare it to any 4870's but appears would have about the same performance while using a lot less power and hopefully putting out less heat. Be interesting to see more and better reviews.
Anandtech's review is up but none of the graphs came thru for me. They seem to have come to different conclusion, showing 10 to 15% performance hit from 4870's. Perhaps is a card that actually needs to come down some in price.
That lined up with our conclusions on the 5770. It needs to come down in price (moreso in the UK, but Ebuyer is listing starting at £110, so it's starting to make more sense).
I prefer the GTX260 ti this. And talking about new generation?? and Ati's advancement?? The only card worth buying from the whole "revolutionary lineup" is the 5870x2.
i'd say it's a pricing scheme to get rid of the 4 series stock, then once that thins out/nvidea gets their new ones out, they will drop the prices i would think.
Ohhhhh, you got me! I meant "all to way to DX11" as in, im going for Dx11, NOT all the way for the card, im not that rich
Owning a 4870 Toxic, this may become appealling when prices drop a little and we start to understand how well it performs in Crossfire, as it's power draw makes it much more sensible than adding a second 4870 (which would most likely make the lights flicker in my flat).
i'm watching this card myself, building a new system and it seems i've picked a blooming confusing time to look at graphics cards. far as i can tell this is actually slightly less powerful than a gtx260 and about even keel/bit better than a hd4870, and atm shares a price with the former and is £20 more than the latter. gonna pair it with a phenom 2x2 550 in a fairly cheap system to replace my 5-year-old 'gaming' rig but i'm still in half a mind wether to leap for it now while windows 7 is on the cheap to preorder or wait till christmas when these will drop in price and there will be some competition. choices choices
Now I'm confused a bit too. I'm about to order a new system having made do with my other half's laptop for the last year. I know I should build one myself but don't have the time or the time to learn. Anyway. What gpu? The way I read Bits' own Bang Per Buck GPU survey, I would at this present time either go for a v.quite 4890 if one was offered or a gtx275. The 5850 strikes me as just to expensive, for now, especially as it doesn't support phys X which plenty of games do utilise, as opposed to DX 11 which NO games do at the moment. So which one... A quite 4890 ...who currently offers the bestest quietest one??? or A gtx 275? or Am I wrong about the 5850?
Performance: 5770 < GTX 275 ~< HD4890 (depends on model and game) Heat: HD4890 < GTX 275 < 5770 Power Consumption: HD4890 < GTX 275 < 5770 Factoring in a 5850, its more powerful than the HD4890, runs slighly hotter than a 5770 and uses slighly more power
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=20684&page=1 rather interesting article there, shows a 5770 in crossfire scales pretty well to a point where it can compete with a 5870 for slightly cheaper (though ofc nosier and draws more power). still about on par with a gtx260 in sli but could mean a nice upgrade path if you buy one now and get a second on the cheap somewhere down the line.
