Graphics Card Survey

[Abdurahman]

HD5870 will have 2000 stream processors, 512-bit GDDR5 memory, and a core exceeding 1GHz; HD5000 vs. GTx300 will be an interesting showdown indeed.

Actually it will only have 1000 stream procs. Everything else you said is right on the dot.

[AAA]

The radeon 5000 series is suppose to come out first though, with a mid-summer release date while the GT300 series is going to somewhere in October. I hope ATi pulls something worth waiting another 2 months for, the thought of playing games on my X1300 PRO makes me cringe.

Somewhere near the end of July to be slightly more exact.

I would definately like to see these cards go head-to-head with Crysis on Performance.

[Warsaw]

Actually it will only have 1000 stream procs. Everything else you said is right on the dot.

Yeah, misinterpretation on my part...they screwed with the naming scheme in all the blogs. They are calling R870 the dual-chip graphics card, when in fact it simply denotes an HD5870 core, Ã* la HD4870.

[=sw=warlord]

I've upgraded my graphics card to a leadtek winfast px8800GTS
Damned thing is bigger in real life than i expected, much bigger.

[NullZero]

Yeah, cards are getting pretty long these days. I really marveled at the length of my HD4850 when I got it through the post :O

[Warsaw]

Is it really that much bigger than say, a 7800GT/X?

[343guiltymc]

I've upgraded my graphics card to a leadtek winfast px8800GTS
Damned thing is bigger in real life than i expected, much bigger.

They still sell those things.

[=sw=warlord]

Is it really that much bigger than say, a 7800GT/X?

Yes.

They still sell those things.

Got mine second hand.
£50 including P&P

[Warsaw]

It's not that big of a difference...

[=sw=warlord]

It's not that big of a difference...

One is two slot the other isnt.
It was big enough of a difference to make the GTS hit the backend of the hard drive, the otherside of the base.