yo guise,have you seeing leaked score of of southern island product (cayman xt)

11634 for gpu score for 3dmark vantage(extreme setting).., assuming that hd5870 score 9000 marks, the cayman xt is 2226.7% faster than its predecessor. Nice if this true
Wondering how much the die size increase
source

This post has been edited by zerorating: Aug 28 2010, 01:40 PM

not a news, but a rumor , southern island was made to improve tessellation performance, increase of shader performance will be nice...hope amd will deliver with their bulldozer/southern and nothern island

sad story for me,ati are always been in my mind (been an ati user since year 1996) hope someone can do petition and send to amd..

go ati..release barts simpson as soon as possible

and mini factor pc as well, some say that zacate gpu will be equivalent to hd5450..maybe after this no more low-end gpu market anymore.
at 18w, it is awesome
some zecate apu benchmark

This post has been edited by zerorating: Oct 3 2010, 07:37 PM

barts are sized at 255mm, similar size to rv770 (256mm)..
a real successor for hd4850/hd4870
just hope dx11 performance are better than cypress
i wondered how cayman gonna perform

This post has been edited by zerorating: Oct 20 2010, 12:59 AM

wasnt dx11 is all about shader power + tesselator help
polygon count are so dx7
comparison of hd6870 vs gtx460 (1gb) by amd


This post has been edited by zerorating: Oct 20 2010, 01:09 AM

we still hardly seen the different between dx9 and dx11 except unigine benchmark, normal mapping technique puts really well on making low poly to see like high poly model..if the shader doesnt exist,maybe we can see graphic card with 256 rops already
where are shader model 5.0 anyway

This post has been edited by zerorating: Oct 20 2010, 01:23 AM

yup its true, nvidia give many customization inside nvidia control panel compared to ccc,but most people can still live without it to me, ati produce better hardware for user (power, performance per mm, reliability) and their driver starting to improve really nicely. Believe me, nvidia didnt even care if your obsolete hardware got issue running on newer driver that was made for newer hardware. In here who even can forget about 8400/8600m gt timebomb issue

This post has been edited by zerorating: Oct 20 2010, 01:55 AM

well i do recommend my friends to buy gtx460 before,but since hd6850/6870 are coming, no more reason to get gtx460 (except if you really care about physx or folding@home)

wait for 1ghz toxic version


44c at 23% fan speed on idle (in china) seems nice but full load temp of 78c seems to worry about, anyway stock hd6870 already beats oced gtx460 at 900mhz

This post has been edited by zerorating: Oct 20 2010, 10:07 AM

hd6870 are not highest-end card like hd5800series, its targetted for gamers sweet spot area similar to 4800series before. This card are meant for users that use slower card than hd5800 series. The difference are better tessellation performance and 3d support Current hd5800 series users can wait for hd6950/hd6970 or wait for southern island

This post has been edited by zerorating: Oct 20 2010, 10:09 AM

dual fan already..
seems like the load temp will be bad...

it does, u need to oc it to more than 900mhz(warranty void) to get same performance with hd6870, the only hope to get market share by reducing the price

just mean it using 8+6 pin power connector, doesnt mean it will draw 300w, like people say, gtx480 tdp are 300w, but real load are 225w. Some people said that hd5850(2x6pin) can be run on one 6 pin connector, but it doesnt have power left for oc