Graphics Prospective 6870 buyers, what are you hoping to see in the 6870?

Like many, I'm in the market for a new high end graphics card. I was using 260 GTX SLI but I had to ditch one to make room for an expansion card to enable C300 goodness. I play a lot of BC2 and a single 260 GTX at 1920x1200 is really starting to show it's age. I could definitely be a day one buyer for the 6870, provided it can match or beat the 480 GTX. It's been a full year since the 5870 so I'm looking to ATi to raise the bar for single GPU performance. Are there any other prospective buyers for the 6 series, and what are you hoping to see in these new cards?

 

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hoping 6770 is same as or close to 460/480 performance.
I just hope I wont miss physics

 

I think it's just going to be more of the same rather than a massive jump. I think it'll be a while before we see the next big jump, like we have from the DX10 cards to the new DX11 cards, but I suppose a new range of cards is good for people looking for a less expensive card as it'll push the prices down a bit.

 

6770 or 6850 for me for this rig, or the 6870 on a bigger full rig later. Hoping for HUEG performance, really.

Like everyone else.

 

I want to get mine in the US during this Summer. I'm hoping that my Q6600 won't bottleneck it though, or else I'll have to buy a new Sandy Bridge processor and a mid-range graphics card like the 6770.

 

Yeah I'm also hoping to get one of the 6xxx series. I'll be upgrading from a 4870, so it should be a significant upgrade for me. Also, my 4870 has been struggling a tiny bit on my new 24" monitor running at 1920x1200.

 

I'm hoping for some good crossfire scaling to rival that of the 460's. I'm not a fan boy, but i am stuck with Ati due to my board not supporting SLi. I really want something non too expensive too. Goes without saying.

 

I'm hoping for the 6770 to be on par with the 786mb 460 GTX,
My 4850 is starting to struggle.
As for the 6870 i won't be getting one of those as it would be too expensive for me, but i say it will be as fast or faster than the 480.

 

I just hope they start to bring out some good drivers for them and have a good price drop on the 5000 series

 

I just hope they actually have some stock when they release, anybody remember the 5870 and 5970..........................

 

That was mainly due to being the first DX11 GFX card to market.

I will be going for the HD6970 unless Nvidia bring something better to the table.

 

Mm the rumour actually is that the 6870 is a bit slower than 5870, and the higher end cards will be called 69xx series.
While most seem to think that the 6870 will be quite a bit faster than 460 1GB. Not much time left until we find out for sure

 

5870 owner here, won't be upgrading this round, will be waiting for nVidia's next card.

 

Hopefully it will mean they drop the price of the 5850/5870, which will give me an incentive to upgrade from my 4850

 

I remember getting hold of a 4770 was a right pain as they were having trouble with the manufacturing process.

I am hoping the 6770 will have 5850/460 performance at the same price point as the 5770. Greedy?

 

I just hope that they sort tesselation out. All indications are that they will. It was one thing that bugs me with my 5870 - knowing that the 480 handles this side of things quite a bit better.

I'm almost certainly on board with the 6xxx series. Just need to decide between the 6870 and the 6970. I do quite like two GPUs in one card, because it makes better use of my expansion slots and reduces the number of PCI-e cables I need to route about the place.

 

Tesselation needs upping but thats about it. Like everyone else, I hope for as much performance increase as possible but thats what I hope. What I expect to see is probably around 20% - 30% real performance gain with no power consumption increase.

The GTX 480 does do tesselation better. Better but not any good. Either unplayable settings from Nvidia or even more unplayable settings from ATI. Apart from the unigine demo, I was convinced that tesselation does nothing but cut frame rates until I saw some magnified pictures with circles on very small details. Such small detail enhancements in games like Metro 2033 isn't even worth any drop in frame rate. They need to up the tesselator in all cards so you can do it without any performance drop before tesselation becomes viable.

I personally hope there is a single card solution that can run a 2560x1600 monitor without slack. Sure there is SLI and Crossfire but they are glitchy at best and their heat, power and noise is just a turnoff.

 

just found this think it is fake or real http://www.guru3d.com/news/amd-radeon-hd-6870-benchmarks-/

 

Just one thing to everyone, the 6870 is going to perform a little less than the 5870 in dx9/10 but more than in 11 from what i've heard. But theres going to be a 69**/cayman which is more of the succesor to the 58** series.

 

Good luck waiting then
All signs point to the fact that now the Northern Islands GPUs are coming from AMD, and next year will be Southern Islands on 28nm. Nvidia will be behind by a full generation by then... I wouldn't call it good sense to wait for nvidias card - therefore i would rephrase it: you will skip this generation and wait for next gen cards to arrive, no matter who makes them.