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jefforange89 on 14 October 2009

http://www.techspot.com/news/36569-AMD-OpenCL-drivers-reveal-new-Radeon-HD-5900-series.html

AMD OpenCL drivers reveal new Radeon HD 5900 series?

By Matthew DeCarlo, TechSpot.com
Published: October 14, 2009, 1:33 PM EST

As you've undoubtedly heard, AMD recently launched its Radeon HD 5000 GPUs -- all of which have been 5700 or 5800 series cards. Yesterday, the company released a new Open CL-compliant driver for present Radeon HD 4000 and 5000 video cards that Fudzilla says reveals an undisclosed Radeon HD 5000 offering.

The Tech Report looked at the driver's INF files, and sure enough, in addition to the three Radeon HD 5700 and two 5800 listings are two 5900 entries. The site suggests that the three 5700 entries account for the 5770, as well as 512MB and 1GB versions of the 5750, while the two 5800 listings are almost surely the 5850 and 5870 cards.

It seems probable that AMD may be preparing a temporary counter to Nvidia's Fermi-based GPUs, but what exactly does the company have in store for the Radeon HD 5900 series?

If the 5870's as powerful as it is, I wonder what the 5900s will end up doing.  If they do indeed exist.



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1337 Gamer on 14 October 2009

Most likely the 5900s will be overclocked versions of the 5870s. Atleast thats what they did with the 4890 last gen. I highly doubt they will be completly new cards



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Squilliam on 14 October 2009

The 5900s are the X2 variants this time around. 5950 and 5970 will essentially be the same if they were called 5850 X2 and 5870 X2 respectively.



Tease.

jefforange89 on 14 October 2009

Oh, okay. Aww, I got excited over nothing. :(



Wii/PC/DS Lite/PSP-2000 owner, shameless Nintendo and AMD fanboy.

My comp, as shown to the right (click for fullsize pic)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.2 GHz
Video Card: XFX 1 GB Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 8 GB A-Data DDR3-1600
Motherboard: ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3
Primary Storage: OCZ Vertex 120 GB
Case: Cooler Master HAF-932
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64		 Extra Storage: WD Caviar Black 640 GB,
WD Caviar Black 750 GB, WD Caviar Black 1 TB
Display: Triple ASUS 25.5" 1920x1200 monitors
Sound: HT Omega Striker 7.1 sound card,
Logitech X-540 5.1 speakers
Input: Logitech G5 mouse,
Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 keyboard
Wii Friend Code: 2772 8804 2626 5138 Steam: jefforange89
CatFangs806 on 14 October 2009
Squilliam said:
The 5900s are the X2 variants this time around. 5950 and 5970 will essentially be the same if they were called 5850 X2 and 5870 X2 respectively.


Does that mean the GPU will use a dual core clock speed?



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Squilliam on 15 October 2009
CatFangs806 said:
Squilliam said:
The 5900s are the X2 variants this time around. 5950 and 5970 will essentially be the same if they were called 5850 X2 and 5870 X2 respectively.


Does that mean the GPU will use a dual core clock speed?

Its just a different name for the same thing.



Tease.

Soleron on 19 October 2009

It's looking like those will be the X2 cards.

Lol, why would AMD need a counter to a non-existent product? I wish Nvidia would release Fermi, so AMD's prices would come down, but it's not happening.



jefforange89 on 19 October 2009
Soleron said:
I wish Nvidia would release Fermi, so AMD's prices would come down, but it's not happening.

Yeah, I know, me too, I really wanna pick up a 5870.



Wii/PC/DS Lite/PSP-2000 owner, shameless Nintendo and AMD fanboy.

My comp, as shown to the right (click for fullsize pic)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.2 GHz
Video Card: XFX 1 GB Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 8 GB A-Data DDR3-1600
Motherboard: ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3
Primary Storage: OCZ Vertex 120 GB
Case: Cooler Master HAF-932
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64		 Extra Storage: WD Caviar Black 640 GB,
WD Caviar Black 750 GB, WD Caviar Black 1 TB
Display: Triple ASUS 25.5" 1920x1200 monitors
Sound: HT Omega Striker 7.1 sound card,
Logitech X-540 5.1 speakers
Input: Logitech G5 mouse,
Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 keyboard
Wii Friend Code: 2772 8804 2626 5138 Steam: jefforange89
greenmedic88 on 19 October 2009

It's funny that people are waiting for Nvidia to finally release their new line of GPUs so they can pass on buying them and pick up ATI's current offerings at adjusted prices instead.

I'd just assumed the 5870 and 5850 would be initially priced at $299 and $199 respectively without taking into account that they would be exclusive to the DX11 generation for months ahead of Nvidia.

I'm in the same boat. Unless Fermi produces significant performance increases without an excessive premium, I'll be sticking with ATI for my next build.