AMD HD 5870 announced, local pricing revealed

great stuff! so can we expect sub R2000 (or lower) 4890 prices now? crossfire here i come!
 
Bang for buck

Just a question... those of you saying ATI have bad drivers, have you ever owned an ATI graphics card?

I've had 2 ATI cards at home (old and new) and a highend nVidia card at work for CUDA programming. None of them give me any problems. They just work.

For "bang for buck" I'll always go for the best deal at the time that I buy, brand loyalty in this situation is a little bit silly, but hey if you've got the money to burn then who are we to stand in your way.

Peace.
 
i own a 9800GX2 no tweaking runs like hell, owned some old ati once, although ati might cost less what about game support?

itching to get two high end cards
 
Me wants a 5850 :mad: I paid around the same price for my 8800GTS 320 :p

Should be a worthy upgrade i rekon....
 
Where the hell is all this rubbish coming from regarding crap drivers? Maybe 10 years ago, but not now.

AMD are the ones releasing WHQL certified drivers every month, not nVidia.
 
<moLe> said:
my 8800gtx in my old computer still runs pretty much every game fine (without scalling **** down) on a resolution 1680x1050 and thats a damn old card aswell. Maybe its all got to do with the " Nvidia the way its meant to be played" label on most games, heck I dont know.
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Nah, nVidia just pay the game companies for them to add their little video there - you're basically watching a little nVidia advert every time you wanna play a game....they have a good brand and awesome marketing, i must say - that's why people look up to them.

they have good cards, i can't lie - but when it comes down to "what's the best card for X amount of money", ATI wins usually.

I was an nVidia fanboi as well - had many, many cards of theirs.....thing is, it took only ONE ati card to convert me...

I honestly don't see why they have bad drivers....

if you're saying they are not optimized like nVidia, well then, thats pretty friggen strange considering the speed of ATi's VS nVidia Cards on SAME COST GFX Cards.
 
Keeper said:
Nah, nVidia just pay the game companies for them to add their little video there - you're basically watching a little nVidia advert every time you wanna play a game....they have a good brand and awesome marketing, i must say - that's why people look up to them.

they have good cards, i can't lie - but when it comes down to "what's the best card for X amount of money", ATI wins usually.

I was an nVidia fanboi as well - had many, many cards of theirs.....thing is, it took only ONE ati card to convert me...

I honestly don't see why they have bad drivers....

if you're saying they are not optimized like nVidia, well then, thats pretty friggen strange considering the speed of ATi's VS nVidia Cards on SAME COST GFX Cards.
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Suppose you do have a point, maybe it is just indoctrination on my part. But I've been with nvidia since..well forever, and didnt get as much as an hiccup from them ( okay, apart from this one time when I bought an XFX 8800 ultra, went crazy overclocking it, blew it and obviously got no refund..bummer).
So dont see the point in switching to another manufactures card.
But yes, guess its mostly just personal prefference. And yes, my statement regarding ATI's drivers were derived from an opinion from a friend ;thus not valid for use in an argument.
But have my preferences and will rather fork out more and buy my Nvidia/Intel system purely because its what I know. So yes, with that I apoligize for a bash statement which might not have been politically correct.
 
<moLe> said:
But have my preferences and will rather fork out more and buy my Nvidia/Intel system purely because its what I know.
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dude! you gotta try ATI man - trust me, i know exactly what you mean.... I hated ATi, even though I never owned one before - don't be brainwashed by nVidia any longer man - yeah they have good cards, but at what price? ati is just as good imo, and if you ONLY have say 3k to spend, it's BETTER than nVidia....

your false ideas about ATi is costing you a fortune every time you buy a Ultra / XXX / OC Edition / Alpha Dog / whatever "cool" name they have next time...

Well, as they say - different strokes for different folks.... I'm just glad i'm out of that expensive nVidia spell...
 
Noruk said:
Just a question... those of you saying ATI have bad drivers, have you ever owned an ATI graphics card?

I've had 2 ATI cards at home (old and new) and a highend nVidia card at work for CUDA programming. None of them give me any problems. They just work.

For "bang for buck" I'll always go for the best deal at the time that I buy, brand loyalty in this situation is a little bit silly, but hey if you've got the money to burn then who are we to stand in your way.

Peace.
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So true. I've had both ATi and nVidia. Funny thing is i've had more hassles with nVdia HW.

The 5870 competes with the 295GTX. That 1 GPU vs 2. The 5xxx series are gonna rock. The sad thing is nVidia will only have there card ready Q1 2010.

BTW All nVidia users, u can thank ATi/AMD for your cheaper HW. If it was nVidia launching the cards u would pay $650. :sick:
 
omw, typical typical, i knew this would turn into a red vs green thread.

i've had and owned both and didnt have any driver issues with either.
 
i dont see why everyone is talking about drivers.... it's about benchmarks

.....and how cool the sticker looks on the card itself :D
 
I can get the Gigabyte Radeons now, but they damn expensive ... R4999 and R6299.
 
Dirvers this Drivers that wha wha wha... Im a fence sitter my previous 2 radeon cards have matched up to my nvidia cards so for me its always been best bang for buck. +1 to longgevity of the 8800GTX :D
 
does anyone here know if they planning to release a 5870x2? i plan on buying a gpu at the end of the year and im keen for this but i would much rather wait for x2. and any guess howmuch x2 would cost?
 
i will wait and see wait nvidia has to offer with gt300 with regard to pricing and performance. i am not concerned with the red vs green debate, i only want a card that can give me the best bang for the buck performance. i will most likely go 5850 but if nvidia can beat the rrp of that card and provide best performance at tha level, i will go with nvidia.
 
On its way.

have two on their way to my MYUS suite. $379 each pre ordered from Amazon. I have bought six video cards this way 3 nvidia and 3 Ati. They all work perfectly in fact I can get Heores over Europe to run on the ATI Machine but for some reason it don't like my SLI monster.:D

I dont care about branding, just performance for the moment. If I want PhysX I have a few Ageia Physx cards too...:p
 
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