The New HD5970. What do you think?

lil domii · Nov 18, 2009

have just noticed that stores are now selling the new 5970 gpu. they only have 725mhz core clock and 4000mhz memory (compared to the 5870 : 850mhz core, 4800mhz memory), but with 2 gb memory with 512-bit memory interface, what do you think of the card?

thepizzaman · Nov 18, 2009

its amazing.... :D the benches show that it outperforms everything! including 2 285's on sli and 2 5870's on cf.. its a beast :D

skunksmash · Nov 18, 2009

Great card, this will no doubt hold onto the ''top'' position far after ''fermi'' is finally relesed by Nvidia........

shame about the THEIFS selling it

pizzaman..... CFX 5870s outperform the 5970.

lil domii · Nov 18, 2009

skunksmash said:
Great card, this will no doubt hold onto the ''top'' position far after ''fermi'' is finally relesed by Nvidia........

shame about the THEIFS selling it

pizzaman..... CFX 5870s outperform the 5970.

yes, it is usually bottlenecked by the cpu's in the benches. i think that it doesn't beat the 5870 cf cuz it has the core and memory specs of a 5850.

lil domii · Nov 18, 2009

skunksmash said:
Great card, this will no doubt hold onto the ''top'' position far after ''fermi'' is finally relesed by Nvidia........

shame about the THEIFS selling it

pizzaman..... CFX 5870s outperform the 5970.

yes... £550 i have seen so far as the cheapest... :sa:

Everlong · Nov 18, 2009

The 5000 series has some very nice cards, just a shame they're taking advantage of there being no competition and charging an arm and a leg.

thepizzaman · Nov 18, 2009

skunksmash said:
Great card, this will no doubt hold onto the ''top'' position far after ''fermi'' is finally relesed by Nvidia........

shame about the THEIFS selling it

pizzaman..... CFX 5870s outperform the 5970.

oh ok haha i guess you can't trust the benches that i saw here that you posted.....
H597F2GDG HIS ATI Radeon 5970 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card + DIRT 2 725MHz Core, 2048MB 4000MHz GDDR5 Memory, 3200 Stream Processors, PCI-E 2.0, CrossfireX Ready, ATI Eyefinity, ATI Stream, ATI Avivo HD, 2Year Warranty : novatech.co.uk

skunksmash · Nov 18, 2009

thepizzaman said:
skunksmash said:

Great card, this will no doubt hold onto the ''top'' position far after ''fermi'' is finally relesed by Nvidia........

shame about the THEIFS selling it

pizzaman..... CFX 5870s outperform the 5970.

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oh ok haha i guess you can't trust the benches that i saw here that you posted.....
H597F2GDG HIS ATI Radeon 5970 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card + DIRT 2 725MHz Core, 2048MB 4000MHz GDDR5 Memory, 3200 Stream Processors, PCI-E 2.0, CrossfireX Ready, ATI Eyefinity, ATI Stream, ATI Avivo HD, 2Year Warranty : novatech.co.uk

no you cant......... those benches ARE wrong.

here's a quick image i grabbed, & look an even more intensive game.

thepizzaman · Nov 18, 2009

skunksmash said:
thepizzaman said:

skunksmash said:

Great card, this will no doubt hold onto the ''top'' position far after ''fermi'' is finally relesed by Nvidia........

shame about the THEIFS selling it

pizzaman..... CFX 5870s outperform the 5970.

Click to expand...

oh ok haha i guess you can't trust the benches that i saw here that you posted.....
H597F2GDG HIS ATI Radeon 5970 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card + DIRT 2 725MHz Core, 2048MB 4000MHz GDDR5 Memory, 3200 Stream Processors, PCI-E 2.0, CrossfireX Ready, ATI Eyefinity, ATI Stream, ATI Avivo HD, 2Year Warranty : novatech.co.uk

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no you cant......... those benches ARE wrong.

here's a quick image i grabbed, & look an even more intensive game.

think of what two of those on cf could do..... :D

smarteyeball · Nov 18, 2009

2 5870's do have the advantage over the 5970, but there are definite benefits to using the 5970 over 2 5870's:

Less power usage
Smaller PSU wattage requirements (still need a lot of amps though)
LESS NOISE
Motherboard selection is far less limited (no more restrictions with x16/x8 PCIE-E lanes for dual cards)
Can be overclocked to 5870 levels

At first I was a little disappointed that it was essentially a 5850x2, but after further consideration - it doesn't really matter. It's going to handle pretty much anything

CPU bottlenecking is another matter - and if overclocked high end intel chips are the bottleneck, I shudder to think how an AMD chip will handle it

skunksmash · Nov 19, 2009

smarteyeball said:
2 5870's do have the advantage over the 5970, but there are definite benefits to using the 5970 over 2 5870's:

Less power usage

Smaller PSU wattage requirements (still need a lot of amps though)

LESS NOISE

Motherboard selection is far less limited (no more restrictions with x16/x8 PCIE-E lanes for dual cards)

Can be overclocked to 5870 levels

At first I was a little disappointed that it was essentially a 5850x2, but after further consideration - it doesn't really matter. It's going to handle pretty much anything

CPU bottlenecking is another matter - and if overclocked high end intel chips are the bottleneck, I shudder to think how an AMD chip will handle it

it is in fact 2x ''cypress XT'' 5870 cores, which have been downclocked to 5850 speeds (725/4000) to keep inside the 300w bracket.

the original ''XT'' clocks are 865/5200, so this is infact the stock clock of the 5970

the 5970 will DESTROY crossfire 5870s, it just wont do it ''out of the box'' :D

smarteyeball · Nov 19, 2009

skunksmash said:
it is in fact 2x ''cypress XT'' 5870 cores, which have been downclocked to 5850 speeds (725/4000) to keep inside the 300w bracket.

lol, You know what I mean - 5850 x2 clockspeeds = 5850 x2 performance

It will be interesting to see what sort of temps overclocking these with stock coolers will bring.

thepizzaman · Nov 19, 2009

smarteyeball said:
2 5870's do have the advantage over the 5970, but there are definite benefits to using the 5970 over 2 5870's:

Less power usage

Smaller PSU wattage requirements (still need a lot of amps though)

LESS NOISE

Motherboard selection is far less limited (no more restrictions with x16/x8 PCIE-E lanes for dual cards)

Can be overclocked to 5870 levels

At first I was a little disappointed that it was essentially a 5850x2, but after further consideration - it doesn't really matter. It's going to handle pretty much anything

CPU bottlenecking is another matter - and if overclocked high end intel chips are the bottleneck, I shudder to think how an AMD chip will handle it

well......... can't be but so bad.... :party:

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