I really need it for a build, i heard it was suppoae to come out in Q1
Wut?
Oh, it will happen, alright. And you will feel it. Be.. prepared..
What? Just get something like a 5850 if you need a high end card so bad.
I think he means the 5series version of a 4850x2, I'm sure a 3rd party company will release one like how the 4850x2 was made.
The 5970 is multi-GPU? And there's no real need for something between the 5870 and the 5970 (nVidia actually covers that..), so I find that hard to believe..
I hope it still happens, cause I want one.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;23011594]The 5970 is multi-GPU? And there's no real need for something between the 5870 and the 5970 (nVidia actually covers that..), so I find that hard to believe..[/QUOTE]
Why would ATI just let NVIDIA have that spot? It would be much better to compete.
I don't really see a big market for it. Extreme enthusiasts go with the 5970, and the enthusiasts who like PhysX goes with the GT 480. Multi-GPU is expensive, it's cheaper with like CF 5850..
I think the reason why they didn't make it yet is because very few people would buy it. Most of the people who have the money will just go for the top, which is 5970. And 5970 isn't two 5870s, it's two 5870s at 5850 clockspeeds. Making a dual gpu card out of two 5850s would be kind of pointless.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;23011712]I don't really see a big market for it. Extreme enthusiasts go with the 5970, and the enthusiasts who like PhysX goes with the GT 480. Multi-GPU is expensive, it's cheaper with like CF 5850..[/QUOTE]
The 4850X2 was a moderate success, but it could've been better if more than one manufacturer had been producing them. So it stands to reason that a 5950 could work if there were a sufficient number of manufacturers on board and if the cards were marketed at a price point between the 5850 and 5970.
It would be more expensive, and slower than just buying two other cards and CF them later. People who buys 5970 is planning on CF later, I'm sure.
[QUOTE=Wiggles;23011985]The 4850X2 was a moderate success, but it could've been better if more than one manufacturer had been producing them. So it stands to reason that a 5950 could work if there were a sufficient number of manufacturers on board and if the cards were marketed at a price point between the 5850 and 5970.[/QUOTE]
But the price points were different the previous generation. The 4850 and 4870 started at 200-300$ IIRC, now it's 300 and 400$ for the 5850 and 5870.
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