Gigabyte finally debuts its Radeon HD 5870 Super OC

[Crispy]

Gigabyte has this week officially launched the fastest card in its Super Overclock Series, a customized, and, of course, factory-overclocked, Radeon HD 5870. The speedy HD 5870 SOC features an Ultra Durable VGA design with a 2oz copper PCB, five NEC Proadlizer film capacitors that provide more stable power, voltage read points, and a dual-slot fansink boasting two inclined fans and four copper heatpipes that's supposed to keep the card 13 degrees (Celsius) cooler than the reference solution.

Spec wise, Gigabyte's card comes with 1600 Stream Processors, a 950 MHz core clock (850 MHz stock), a 256-bit memory interface, 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM @ 5000 MHz (4800 MHz), DirectX 11 and CrossFireX support, and dual DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort outputs.

The Radeon HD 5870 SOC is currently listed in Europe for pre-order at prices starting at 448 Euro

Sorce: TechConnect Magazine - Gigabyte finally debuts its Radeon HD 5870 Super Overclock card

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

Gigabyte has this week officially launched the fastest card in its Super Overclock Series, a customized, and, of course, factory-overclocked, Radeon HD 5870. The speedy HD 5870 SOC features an Ultra Durable VGA design with a 2oz copper PCB, five NEC Proadlizer film capacitors that provide more stable power, voltage read points, and a dual-slot fansink boasting two inclined fans and four copper heatpipes that's supposed to keep the card 13 degrees (Celsius) cooler than the reference solution.

Spec wise, Gigabyte's card comes with 1600 Stream Processors, a 950 MHz core clock (850 MHz stock), a 256-bit memory interface, 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM @ 5000 MHz (4800 MHz), DirectX 11 and CrossFireX support, and dual DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort outputs.

The Radeon HD 5870 SOC is currently listed in Europe for pre-order at prices starting at 448 Euro

Sorce: TechConnect Magazine - Gigabyte finally debuts its Radeon HD 5870 Super Overclock card

Okay so, who wants to get me this as a birthday present?

 

[Crispy]

OK lol.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

OK lol.

Holding ya to that!

 

[Crispy]

I'm can't promises anything anytime soon.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

I'm can't promises anything anytime soon.

I can live with it being in the next 3-4 months. lol

 

[cloud8521]

the real question is, does it blend?

 

[Heroxoot]

the real question is, does it blend?

Dunno, but it looks freaking sexy :\ Like a fine woman, with flames.

 

[Zen00]

They've been one-upped by ASUS, they're showing off the HD 5990ish type card, a 5870x2.

PC Perspective - ASUS ARES Graphics Card is true dual HD 5870 goodness

 

[ThePizzaMan]

nice

 

[Heroxoot]

They've been one-upped by ASUS, they're showing off the HD 5990ish type card, a 5870x2.

PC Perspective - ASUS ARES Graphics Card is true dual HD 5870 goodness

jeeze, 2 8pin 1 6pin. Thats a bit much.

 

[Zen00]

You'll have to remember it's running with two 5870 cores, each one which requires two six pins on its own.

 

[smarteyeball]

They've been one-upped by ASUS, they're showing off the HD 5990ish type card, a 5870x2.

PC Perspective - ASUS ARES Graphics Card is true dual HD 5870 goodness

Sapphire and XFX are releasing models too.

Limited runs = $$$ and slim to no chance of nabbing one

Still, do want

 

[Heroxoot]

This should make the 5770 prices lower.

 

[smarteyeball]

This should make the 5770 prices lower.

These cards are in a tier of their own and as such won't have any real direct impact on pricing.

But the slated GTX 460 should.

 

[Zen00]

Not really, the 460 competes with the 5850, so I'd expect a drop in the 5830, 5850, and 5870 prices.

 

[Heroxoot]

This should make the 5770 prices lower.

These cards are in a tier of their own and as such won't have any real direct impact on pricing.

But the slated GTX 460 should.

No I got a feeling they may drop, even if its a little. People are going to go nutz over these dual GPUs, because any mobo can take it as long as 1 pcie is present.

 

[Crispy]

Beets having to set up SLI you need the right motherboard need to buy two graphic cards and so on, also SLI has allot of problems from what I have heard.

 

[smarteyeball]

Not really, the 460 competes with the 5850, so I'd expect a drop in the 5830, 5850, and 5870 prices.

Really? I thought the 470 was the 5850/5870 betwixt equivalent and the 460 more akin to the 5770... or maybe I thinking of the GTX 450?

Aggh, so many speculative articles all posting conflicting info. No wonder it's hard to keep up....

No I got a feeling they may drop, even if its a little. People are going to go nutz over these dual GPUs, because any mobo can take it as long as 1 pcie is present.

These 4GB dual GPU's are 'limited' runs so it really is hard to say how much impact they will have on pricing.

The standard 5970's have pretty much retained thier price point since release.

However the 5870 2GB Eyefinity 6 models and the newer OC'ed 5870's that are starting to surface vs how the whole Fermi range sells will determine what happens to the 'lower' tier ATI cards prices.

They will drop - but by how much - at this stage, who knows?

(I'm all for quickly and the lower the better )

 

[Lomai]

It's hard being located down south