Following a successful run with the codenamed R700 family of GPUs, which was originally released back in June 2008 as the Radeon HD 4000 series, AMD is launching the highly anticipated R800. Debuting to no one's surprise as the ATI Radeon HD 5000, the new series is said deliver around 2x more performance than previous generation Radeon cards, and brings DirectX 11 support to desktops for the first time.

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http://www.techspot.com/review/198-a...d-5870-review/

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Great review, great card, I'm actually rooting for ATI this time because they are bringing in the goods :)

And still the GTx 295 wins where it counts... Crysis.
Quake wars results mean nothing these days..

The GeForce GTX 295 would want to win as it costs more for one and for another its using two of the fastest GPU's from Nvidia's current generation range. No idea why people are making a big deal out of the Radeon HD 5870 not beating the GeForce GTX 295 in most tests, I cannot recall the last time a new GPU beat a pair of previous generation GPUs at all.

No idea why that is but luckily we did not base our entire experience with this graphics card on just one game.

I haven't even read the review yet but that is one slick looking card.

The 295 performs worse in 2560x1600 than 5870 with AA switched on...in fact it crashes, read here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-5870,2422-13.html

I guess the way you can read it is that the 5870 is now the world's fastest single GPU based graphics card.
Sure the GTX 295 beat it in some tests, but remember that the 295 is a dual GPU based card...

Hoo-boy that's one sweet card. I haven't bought an AMD card in forever, but think this one might do the trick.

AMD u have finally impressed me!

Wow, this looks like one heck of a card. I wonder what kinda performance the HD 5770 is gonna bring to the table...

@Steve, any idea on whether one can run an HD 48xx series card and an HD 58xx series card in CFX?

Yet it comes close in performance, toasts the other single GPU offerings, and runs on less juice... What exactly is your point?
If you want to spout venom about comparisons, wait until the dual GPU version of the 5870 hits (which is the only true "apples to apples" comparison to the 295). Considering how close the single GPU version is, I'm betting the 295 will get soundly trounced.
And, of course, the full DX11 compliance might make just a bit of a difference down the line too... but, hey, let's not cloud the issue with facts at all.

Radeon HD 5870
1,024MB
(x2 in CrossFireX)

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=20354&page=2

See how much of a beating the BFG GeForce GTX 285 1,024MB (x2 in SLI) and the BFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB recieve...

its good to see ati winning, but i think the the gfx war has changed to much because my 8800 gts 512 can give me physx and 3d vision + cuda for free. if i changed to ati i would lose those free features and im not sure i could so that.

One thing I noticed at the AMD/ATI website is that the current drivers available for the 5870 and 5850 only support Vista or Windows 7 (both 32 bit and 64 bit), not XP. I wonder if that will change later.

....your kidding right?

No offence to everyone whos posted on here, but when nvidia bring out their new cards that are DX11 capable, they will laugh at ati! think about it, we're comparing a (suposeidly) next gen graphics cards to todays nvidias yet it does pull away but not by huge amounts like you would expect, yeah sure it pulls a fine job beating its own brand, but if you consider how new the card is, it struggled to beat nvidia's! so i'm waiting this one out, i'm happy to bet what ever nvidia brings out is way more powerful than this.

k i know my 8800 gts 512 sucks compared to this in gfx performance, but ati have nothing to compeat against the physx and 3d vision side of things yet.

----No offence to everyone whos posted on here, but when nvidia bring out their new cards that are DX11 capable, they will laugh at ati! think about it,---

I thought about it and figured that the 5870x2 would be a tough act to follow.

I'm disappointed with ATI's cheap crap coolers. It's about time they put something good on their cards. I had to replace the cooler on my 4870x2 after approx 6 months cause it wasn't doing it's job without hitting high fan speeds. Yes my fans were clean and yes I tried Artic Silver on the gpu's.

I also can't figure out how Techspot's 4870x2's idle temp was 70??? Should have been around 50, considering the increased fan speeds the catalyst drivers forced since the card was released. Oh well.. minor detail.

Also don't forget drivers for 5870 will improve with time, improving performance...

huh but im still waiting for the 5850 review.........i have a 4850 and im think of upgrading to the 5850 instead of doing crossfirex