ATI Radeon HD5870 "available" on Newegg.com

[Ethan3.14159]

ATI Radeon 5870 List

$379 is a good starting price. And the 5850 will be $279. Nvidia has some catching up to do.

 

[Stildawn]

My question is why does it still have a 265 bus.

 

[Gooberman]

5870 has been on newegg for like 5 days now

 

[linkin]

They really should have gone with 384bit or 512bit memory. these cards (apparently) have memory bandwitdth issues so if you get one OC the hell out of the memory.

 

[Stildawn]

yeah like it cant be all that hard to make them 512bit etc.

 

[Gooberman]

man the memory bandwidth would be freaken massive

 

[Stildawn]

Which is a good thing lol.

 

[linkin]

Yeah 512bit bus with that much memory means like... i don't know. i'm not good with memory bus bandwidth.

 

[Gooberman]

It affects the GB/s crap

 

[Stildawn]

So any reasons to why they didnt do it?

 

[Backwoods166]

So any reasons to why they didnt do it?

so they can keep their prices very competitive.

the 5870 (sub $400) is about equal with the gtx 295 ($500) for benchies give or take.

 

[Stildawn]

Is there any reason why 512bit would be more expensive to make than 256bit? If not then they could still sell the 5870 at that price but the performance would absolutely kill the gtx295.....

Thats what I ment by hoping for something amazing, was hoping ATi would go to 512bit and cream Nvidia.

 

[Ethan3.14159]

ATI didn't think 512 bit bus was necessary. And it really isn't. There is no lack of bandwidth. 156 GB/s for the 5870, and 128 GB/s for the 5850.

 

[Gooberman]

yeah the GTX285 was like 159GB/s ! and 5870 owns it

 

[Stildawn]

But surely the more the merrier lol....

 

[Calibretto]

The HD 5870 X2 is on the way.

http://www.techolive.com/2009/09/ati-radeon-hd-5870-x2-leaked-photos-appear.html

 

[Geoff]

The HD 5870 X2 is on the way.

http://www.techolive.com/2009/09/ati-radeon-hd-5870-x2-leaked-photos-appear.html

That's what I'm getting