Hardware Asus Matrix Radeon HD 5870 Graphics Card Review

Sigh Xtrafresh you missed the Eyefinity 6 Review 5870 vs 5870 2gb vs 5970. thats was one of the more interesting pices they have writen.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2010/04/13/ati-radeon-hd-5870-eyefinity-6-review/1

 

au countraire, mon ami!

I read that review fron to back, but there are no crossfire results in there either. Again, i'm looking for CROSSFIRE comparison between 1GB and 2GB cards at high resolutions. Anyone?

 

I wouldn't bother if I had the money, i would get a pair of GTX460's in SLI.
Just wish I had the money for even a single 460. Anyone want to swap my 260 for a 460?

 

Feeling lazy so I will just ask, how does this stack up against a 5970 in terms of price and performance?

 

Slap on a custom waterblock and this card might be more attractive at that price. Does anyone really expect to get a big OC aircooling a GPU...

 

I'm wondering why Asus still hasn't made a WC ROG series?

I mean do it like DFI did with their boards, or hell have a waterblock on the NB/SB pre-installed and same with the graphics cards.

Sapphire's HD4870X2 anyone?

 

That would be a custom-designed waterblock to cover the unique VRMs of this card and the memory that's on the rear of it? If you fancy knocking us up such a block, we'll give it a whirl! :b

 

you could maybe use something like the mcw60 on the gpu and ramsinks elsewhere...

it's safe to assume that you won't be overclocking much further than 1030MHz - though it made a freaking racket at that speed it's still pretty near the max before subzero cooling.

 

Why do companies continue to waste time and effort with these "rehab" reference cards with a slight overclock and a big price tag?

Just give us the HD 5890 already. GOSH!

make sure it's 1ghz 1536mb 384bit $500

 

There's no real place in the market for a 5890. Overclocking doesn't give a massive improvement either, and I'd imagine that only a small percentage of Cypress cores can actually get to 1GHz, which would make a 5890 be cost-inefficient.

 

Good point but I believe there is a HUGE market for a HD 5890 as the GTX 480 easily kills the HD 5870, ATi's high end HD6000 won't arrive until 2nd Q 2011 so in the mean time a HD 5890 will be perfect to rival the GTX 485 (Fermi 104).

Just like the HD 4890 a slight re-engineering will allow the easy 1ghz core and a greater boost in performance as the HDXX90 are a lot more than just overclocked HDXX70 cards as the re-engineering of the board produced a quieter, cooler, more efficient, and a more powerful card.

 

Last I remember the HD4890 wasn't exactly quiet.