Radeon 5990

[Heroxoot]

Sapphire ready to launch Radeon "HD 5990 4GB" - Bright Side Of News*

Oh mah gawd. More ram than any one will ever need, ever. I almost want to call up ATI and have them make a pact with MS to make the card able to run windows soly from the card. 800USD price tag.

So, 700w power for a single card maybe? I saw 650 for the 5970 so it couldn't need a lot more.

 

[SlackerITGuy]

Isn't that the Radeon HD 5970 Toxic 4GB?

Looks very similar IMO:

5970 TOXIC 4GB.

- courtesy of tweaktown.com

 

[Heroxoot]

This is 5990. It seems to be the 5970 OC'd. Its gonna be awesome. I believe any game played with this gfx card should have the settings: Low, Medium, High, and GOD.

 

[squall leonhart]

Sapphire ready to launch Radeon "HD 5990 4GB" - Bright Side Of News*

Oh mah gawd. More ram than any one will ever need, ever. I almost want to call up ATI and have them make a pact with MS to make the card able to run windows soly from the card. 800USD price tag.

So, 700w power for a single card maybe? I saw 650 for the 5970 so it couldn't need a lot more.

its a marketting lie. the 4GB is really only 2GB as memory isn't accumulative, its mirrored on SLI/Crossfire.

 

[Heroxoot]

Sapphire ready to launch Radeon "HD 5990 4GB" - Bright Side Of News*

Oh mah gawd. More ram than any one will ever need, ever. I almost want to call up ATI and have them make a pact with MS to make the card able to run windows soly from the card. 800USD price tag.

So, 700w power for a single card maybe? I saw 650 for the 5970 so it couldn't need a lot more.

its a marketting lie. the 4GB is really only 2GB as memory isn't accumulative, its mirrored on SLI/Crossfire.

well, the world won't know untill its released. This could all be lies. But it sounds sexy anyway.

 

[Everlong]

Sapphire ready to launch Radeon "HD 5990 4GB" - Bright Side Of News*

Oh mah gawd. More ram than any one will ever need, ever. I almost want to call up ATI and have them make a pact with MS to make the card able to run windows soly from the card. 800USD price tag.

So, 700w power for a single card maybe? I saw 650 for the 5970 so it couldn't need a lot more.

its a marketting lie. the 4GB is really only 2GB as memory isn't accumulative, its mirrored on SLI/Crossfire.

well, the world won't know untill its released. This could all be lies. But it sounds sexy anyway.

It's not lies lol, it's how all multi-GPU setups work. It's 2GB per GPU, yet 2GB is too much for anything unless you're running something like a 6 monitor eyefinity setup.

 

[Zen00]

That's the main purpose for the high memory. It allows for multi-monitor use.

 

[thefabe]

At anyrate lookes to be an really nice card. Would like to see esome benches on it once released. Fabe

 

[Heroxoot]

its a marketting lie. the 4GB is really only 2GB as memory isn't accumulative, its mirrored on SLI/Crossfire.

well, the world won't know untill its released. This could all be lies. But it sounds sexy anyway.

It's not lies lol, it's how all multi-GPU setups work. It's 2GB per GPU, yet 2GB is too much for anything unless you're running something like a 6 monitor eyefinity setup.

It really is supposed to be 4gb though. I'd run 4 - 6 monitors if I could with that much.

 

[squall leonhart]

That's the main purpose for the high memory. It allows for multi-monitor use.

eh... no, the purpose of more memory is higher Resolutions without hitting the framebuffer limits and getting dragged to 10fps.

 

[Everlong]

That's the main purpose for the high memory. It allows for multi-monitor use.

eh... no, the purpose of more memory is higher Resolutions without hitting the framebuffer limits and getting dragged to 10fps.

Well not just resolutions. Higher graphical settings in games as well for the textures.

Though it will help with eyefinity when you have a resolution of 2560x1600.

 

[squall leonhart]

lol yeah, still an obscene waste of money to buy 3 displays capable of that resolution :|

 

[Everlong]

Personally I wouldn't set monitors up in that kind of way to make 1 big monitor as the edges of each monitor would annoy me with how it breaks up the overall image.

 

[Heroxoot]

while a huge amount of money, I concur no man would need another gfx card for the next 3 years. This card feels like its being made to support crysis 2. Crysis was so high power it was used for benching after all, this could be a counter attack for crysis 2.

 

[ThePizzaMan]

its still going to be faster than anything else by a good country mile

 

[Zen00]

That's the main purpose for the high memory. It allows for multi-monitor use.

eh... no, the purpose of more memory is higher Resolutions without hitting the framebuffer limits and getting dragged to 10fps.

That's what I mean, having multiple monitors gives higher resolutions, thus the increase in RAM allows for more monitors.

 

[squall leonhart]

i would'nt say it gives higher resolutions, its more a pseudo aspect ratio than anything. its not true 2560x1600 otherwise the aspect would be totally wrong.

that said.... i'd prefer a card capable of applying 4x or higher AA with the least decrease in performance, over a high resolution. some of us can still see jaggies at 2560x1600

 

[smarteyeball]

while a huge amount of money, I concur no man would need another gfx card for the next 3 years. This card feels like its being made to support crysis 2. Crysis was so high power it was used for benching after all, this could be a counter attack for crysis 2.

Well, Crysis 2 is heading to consoles as well, so unless they screw up the PC optimizations and eye candy features, it probably will run better than the original.


Then again, Metro 2033 made it to consoles but still brings a high-end PC to it's knees...


P.S - old news

http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/68620-sapphire-4gb-5990-unvieled.html#post606577

 

[wickedout]

ATI 5990. That's going to be sick. I can't wait to see the benchmarks for that beast.