5870 Eyefinity Card on newegg

Nevakonaza said:
Holy cow :eek:
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Yes, it is pricey, however, its costs do come reasonably. Currently, the only way to run eyefinity with a standard 5870 and three displays, is two via DVI, and then one via displayport. However, passive adapters do not work, and an active(powered) adapter is required, which costs $100, plus the eyefinity edition also supports a total of SIX displays, vs three maximum on the standard 5870, not to mention you get 2gb of vram. Overall, its worth the premium over a standard 5870, if not only for the 6 monitor capability, but also the extra video memory for high resolutions.

At this point...some may question why would you go with this over say a GTX480? Cooler running, less overall cost due to less power usage, and the ultimate gaming experience with six displays.
 
Ah crap, I already bought the normal 5870 and a active display port adapter. I would loose at least $50 returning these. Hmm might still be worth it, for an extra gig of memory...
 
bomberboysk said:
Yes, it is pricey, however, its costs do come reasonably. Currently, the only way to run eyefinity with a standard 5870 and three displays, is two via DVI, and then one via displayport. However, passive adapters do not work, and an active(powered) adapter is required, which costs $100, plus the eyefinity edition also supports a total of SIX displays, vs three maximum on the standard 5870, not to mention you get 2gb of vram. Overall, its worth the premium over a standard 5870, if not only for the 6 monitor capability, but also the extra video memory for high resolutions.

At this point...some may question why would you go with this over say a GTX480? Cooler running, less overall cost due to less power usage, and the ultimate gaming experience with six displays.
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Hmmm, this could be an absurd setup six 24 inch monitors, or if you're moneybags, six 30 inch monitors...
 
bomberboysk said:
Yes, it is pricey, however, its costs do come reasonably. Currently, the only way to run eyefinity with a standard 5870 and three displays, is two via DVI, and then one via displayport. However, passive adapters do not work, and an active(powered) adapter is required, which costs $100, plus the eyefinity edition also supports a total of SIX displays, vs three maximum on the standard 5870, not to mention you get 2gb of vram. Overall, its worth the premium over a standard 5870, if not only for the 6 monitor capability, but also the extra video memory for high resolutions.

At this point...some may question why would you go with this over say a GTX480? Cooler running, less overall cost due to less power usage, and the ultimate gaming experience with six displays.
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Until you start to play new DX11-tesselated games that you'll have huge problems running even with one monitor because of the low fps caused by tesselation. A good card, consumes less power, lower temps but not futureproof in DX11 games.

Cool to have 6 monitors though in DX10-9 games. Eyefinity is a good thing.
 
What makes you think that tessellation is going to occur in games soom? I would imagine by the time that tessellation becomes wide spread, both the gtx 480 and 5870 will be obsolete, also, where is your source on the card not being future proof in dx11 games?
 
just a noob said:
What makes you think that tessellation is going to occur in games soom? I would imagine by the time that tessellation becomes wide spread, both the gtx 480 and 5870 will be obsolete, also, where is your source on the card not being future proof in dx11 games?
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There are many upcoming DX11 tesselation titles comming this summer, i bet 100 dollars on that.

My proof? Here it is:

Legitreviews:

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Now you may ask, why heaven? Well, because soon you should be able to choose tesselation level in games. Therefore, as you can see gtx 480 beats 5970 in tesselation.. Now, if you sli 480 you'll have perfectly playable fps with those settings. You need to crossfire two 5970s to compete against two 480's.. 5970 is already a dual gpu, therefore you'll need four gpu's to compete against two 480's. This is why..

5870 is completely out of the question. You'll need to crossfire four 5870's to compete vs two. That's more expensive than two 480's. That's why 480 is future proof and in fact has a nice price.

Dirt 2 use almost no tesselation that's why the results are very even. Same goes fro BC2.. Metro is the only game that use heavy tesselation, and 480's doing good there:

Seems like the 5970 and 5870 can't handle the highest ress because of the tesselation..

Hardwarecanucks:

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Edit: Once devs take advantage of cuda you'll see much higher fps.
 
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Thats a whole 5fps difference right there, and didn't nvidia have heaven developed?
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This just shows how poorly coded the game is, the 5970 that fails at higher resolution beats the 480 at a lower resolution
 
just a noob said:
Thats a whole 5fps difference right there, for $100 and an increased electric

This just shows how poorly coded the game is, the 5970 that fails at higher resolution beats the 480 at a lower resolution
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I dont want to be a real ass, but 5fps difference between a dual gpu and a single is kinda fail if you ask me. Why pay much more for a 5970 and gain less fps than 480? Also, 480 is driver-less and 5970 has matured for a long time. keep that in mind.

That might be, but if so it goes both ways. 480 is driver-less and beats 5870 under all the ress, and 5970 under the highest. 5970 goes a few fps above in the lower ress, but that can be fixed with a new driver.

Edit: This only goes for DX11 tesselation gaming (not dirt 2, because it's not even halfway tesselated..)
 
Ryeong said:
I dont want to be a real ass, but 5fps difference between a dual gpu and a single is kinda fail if you ask me. Why pay much more for a 5970 and gain less fps than 480? Also, 480 is driver-less and 5970 has matured for a long time. keep that in mind.

That might be, but if so it goes both ways. 480 is driver-less and beats 5870 under all the ress, and 5970 under the highest. 5970 goes a few fps above in the lower ress, but that can be fixed with a new driver.

Edit: This only goes for DX11 tesselation gaming (not dirt 2, because it's not even halfway tesselated..)
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The 480 is not "driver-less" or else it wouldnt be able to run anything DirectX11 and would instead be stuck in VESA mode. Nvidia provides drivers with all review samples.

Also, CUDA has absolutely nothing to do with gaming. Cuda is a GPGPU algorithm that allows applications such as media converters, photo editing software, etc to take advantage of the power of a GPU instead of utlizing the CPU, as GPU's are far more powerful than a cpu, but also far less multipurpose than a cpu.

Also...lets end the GTX 480 talk right here, this thread is to let users know that the 5870 eyefinity 6 has finally been released. Any more comparisons to the GTX 480 can stay in the multiple threads you guys are already [strike]having pissing matches[/strike] arguing in.
 
bomberboysk said:
The 480 is not "driver-less" or else it wouldnt be able to run anything DirectX11 and would instead be stuck in VESA mode. Nvidia provides drivers with all review samples.

Also, CUDA has absolutely nothing to do with gaming. Cuda is a GPGPU algorithm that allows applications such as media converters, photo editing software, etc to take advantage of the power of a GPU instead of utlizing the CPU, as GPU's are far more powerful than a cpu, but also far less multipurpose than a cpu.

Also...lets end the GTX 480 talk right here, this thread is to let users know that the 5870 eyefinity 6 has finally been released. Any more comparisons to the GTX 480 can stay in the multiple threads you guys are already [strike]having pissing matches[/strike] arguing in.
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The drivers Nvidia provides are the usual drivers you get from For instance: Microsoft automaticly when inserting a new hardware.. It does not contain any gaming optimizations nor any bug fixes etc.

Yea, you're right. I'll stop posting anything irrelevant after this point withing this thread. But, i'll reply if i'm questioned.
 
Ryeong said:
The drivers Nvidia provides are the usual drivers you get from For instance: Microsoft automaticly when inserting a new hardware.. It does not contain any gaming optimizations nor any bug fixes etc.

Yea, you're right. I'll stop posting anything irrelevant after this point withing this thread. But, i'll reply if i'm questioned.
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Wrong, the drivers "microsoft automatically when inserting a new hardware" are VESA compatible drivers, in VESA mode there is no directX compatibility, no cuda, no nothing.
 
bomberboysk said:
Wrong, the drivers "microsoft automatically when inserting a new hardware" are VESA compatible drivers, in VESA mode there is no directX compatibility, no cuda, no nothing.
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Now, i don't know about that. But one thing is for sure, and that's the fact that this card has no official drivers yet on their website. And, there is a fact that new drivers can improve performance, reduce heat, remove bugs and improve sli (this to a certain extent ofc..) .. it can also mess things up...
 
Ryeong said:
Now, i don't know about that. But one thing is for sure, and that's the fact that this card has no official drivers yet on their website. And, there is a fact that new drivers can improve performance, reduce heat, remove bugs and improve sli (this to a certain extent ofc..) .. it can also mess things up...
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Drivers do not reduce heat, the amount of heat output is due to the amount of power the card draws, and due to its large number of transistors it draws alot of power. Next, nvidia does not release official drivers for prereleased cards, they would have sent drivers either on a flash drive, on optical medium, or via email to the review sites to use with the gpu's.
 
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