Originally, this piece entitled ATI Radeon HD 5870: Learning from the mistakes of Nvidia. This is an unfair way for the launch, I decided. But I still want to explain my reasons for this idea. When NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 280 cards more than a year ago, the company knew it had the best advice on the market and not afraid to charge a premium for their $ 650 to be exact.
How absolutely devastating, then, when the Radeon HD 4870 launched a couple of weeks later, topping the price of $ 400 GeForce GTX 260 with a distance of 300 dollars. Not that ATI had taken the performance crown from NVIDIA is still the fastest card around. However, fans (especially those who actually bought one of the GeForce GTX 200-series cards) certainly have been felt torn away when the cards fell at more competitive prices. Good way to gain an additional margin in a big GPU. Wrong way to promote brand loyalty.
Without spoiling too much of the story today, ATI seems to have learned a thing or two of Green’s not true. Note This is the launch of a beacon of just under $ 400 (the Editor: As of November 30, Radon HD 5870, when shares are sold for $ 410) and second in command on board, based on ticket design $ 259 (Editor: From 30 November, the least expensive Radeon HD 5850 sell for $ 310). It’s still a lot of money, but both cards are positioned as GeForce GTX 295 and GeForce GTX 285 murderers. These tips could really achieve the fastest by a pair of NVIDIA even lower prices?
ATI Radeon HD 5870 meeting, in the belly of the USS Hornet decommissioned aircraft carrier, mixed media and general public about the strong focus on people of high technology. So when I started the presentation and the company started talking about buying a graphics-based user experience Fuzzy Wuzzy, I began to fear that you will hear now 3D games and was not fast enough. The message was that end users do not care MHz Shader or caches, they want the games without problems, transcoding easy (but call it something friendly, please) and seamless playback of Blu-ray. We hope this is not entirely true for the fans here to learn more about Cypress, ATI + 2 million transistors, 40nm GPU. I think the engine installed Radeon HD 5870 is actually full of things you want to know more about.
Fortunately, after a group hug and a round of Kumbaya, ATI has changed their practices and plunged into a cycle of exchange more technical information on the Evergreen-Series GPUs: everything from chip design to dual – GPU Hemlock, Juniper Mainstream and entry-level redwood and cedar, scheduled for launch in 2010.
They also took a great deal of information on DirectX 11, Windows 7, the calculation of flow, Eyefinity ATI technology, consumer, video playback, and the results of the course. There are many ways to go, so let’s start looking at the GPU cypress Located in the heart of today’s two newcomers.