Thread: The messiah: Ati 5970

THE MESSIAH: ATI 5970 Moving away from their well known, X2 naming scheme, AMD/ ATI have recently shifted to naming it with a higher denomination. Well, sad, cos X2 name was something that sounded more powerful, more marketable. Marketing guys at AMD/ ATI aren't really upto scratch, are they?\

Enter the 5970, the previously "X2" version of 5870. Good news is, only the name sucks. Well, there are a couple of other niggles, but, all in all, it is a BEASTY! It is huge and definitely will allow prospective buyers to brag about their e-peens, about 13.5". :D

With a TDP of about 300 watts, it is definitely warm enough to not just cook your meals, but also run the heating in your house. What also seems to be a surprise, is the speeds at which the fan now runs, at least in the engineering sample. As if the older cards weren't noisy enough. Well, no pain, no gain as the saying it goes.


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FUDZILLA
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/16208/1/

AMD's upcoming HD 5970, the mother of all graphics cards, has been spotted in the wild, running in a massive Antec 1200 chassis.

You're probably wondering what the chassis has to do with it, but bear with me. The card is immense, measuring 13.5 inches or 34.3cm, it easily puts Ron Jeremy to shame.

As we said earlier, the TDP should end up around the 300W mark, and it shows. According to the bloke who fiddled with it, the fan runs at 4700RPM, so it's not that quiet. Mind you, this is an early sample, and there's a chance production models will have a somewhat slower fan.

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EXPREVIEW
http://en.expreview.com/2009/10/30/r...its-might.html

AMD did make quite a splash by launching the first ever DirectX 11-ready Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs, and the Radeon HD 5870 has also helped the company to retrieve the performance crown of single-GPU graphics card by beating NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285. Apparently, the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970 is something which deserves even higher expectations.

Our fellow site Alienbabeltech has just posted the first pictures and benchmarks of Radeon HD 5970, but the performance screenshots have been cleared up a bit later, due to the pesky NDA, as you can expect.

Radeon HD 5970 features a very long PCB which measures 13.5 inch (i.e.34.29cm), making it to be the longest ever. The reviewer actually had some problems fitting it into a full-sized tower case like the Antec 1200. According to them, the fan worked at 4700RPM under load, not unexpectedly, too much noise as well.

AMD kindly asked the site to remove performance tests and pointed out that the card is an engineering sample, so some bios and driver tweaks are expected. AMD also said that this was not the final version of the card, and the production model could look a bit different.