HD 5870X2 (HD 5970) Benchmarks and Images
AMD/ATI has been busy recently launching one card after the another. First they launched the high end HD 5870 and HD 5850 accelerators. Few weeks later they launched the more mainstream oriented parts in the form of HD 5770 and HD 5750. Recent reports have given birth to fresh speculation when new device IDs were found in leaked drivers
There was speculation that these upcoming HD 5900 series could be a chip refresh just like HD 4890 was to HD 4870. But our sources tell us that ATI has decided to drop the “X2” nomenclature and its upcoming dual GPU-on-a-PCB cards. The card that was supposed to be HD 5870X2 will now likely be called the HD 5970 and the HD 5850X2 will probably be called the HD 5950. These cards will be much like their older brothers, the HD 4870-X2 and the HD 3870-X2, featuring two GPUs on a single PCB and employing onboard crossfire support. They will undoubtedly take their place as the top two performing cards in ATI’s evergreen lineup upon release.
Our source who wishes to be known as DJ (kind of ironic that Nvidia leaks come for a source named CJ!) tells us that ATI is pretty confident that they will win this round of the GPU war with Nvidia’s Fermi architecture. He goes on to say that ATI has something special up their sleeve, but are waiting for Nvidia to release their DX11 cards first. All I can say is that although the above information may be correct in due time, at the moment it should only be taken as unconfirmed rumor so as to avoid flamewars in forums around the ‘net over who wins this round between ATI and Nvidia.
DJ was kind enough to provide us with a glimpse of the performance to expect from this card when it releases. The drivers used are unknown at this time, but the GPU-Z shows as 8.14.10.708 version for the Direct3D driver. It is unclear whether these are the leaked Catalyst 9.11 beta drivers or some other special drivers made for this card. A quick glance at my Catalyst 9.10 installation shows version 8.14.10.700 for the Direct3D driver.
Other information that maybe of interest to some is that the fan runs at 4700rpm at 100% speed.
Test System:
Intel Core i7 920 @ 4016 Mhz
ASUS P6T Deluxe v2
Patriot Viper 1600 MHz 6 GB Triple Channel Kit @ 1700 MHz
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
HD 5870X2 (HD 5970) running at stock speeds
—-Editor’s Note: These benchmarks of an unreleased engineering sample have been removed at AMD’s request and are not at all representative of final hardware’s performance. AMD was quick to let ABT know that the board, the drivers and the BIOS are not finalized. Also, please note that according to AMD, the following leaked pictures are not the final card as this is an engineering sample.
-Mark Poppin
And here are the pictures of the card itself in an Antec 1200. The card itself is 13.5 inches long, and has problems fitting even a full sized tower case like the Antec 1200. We are told that it is not possible to put a hard drive next to the card in this case. The card uses one 8-pin and one 6-pin power connector.
Oh, and we are told that for being patient little enthusiasts, we should get our board shots in a few days. In the end I would like to emphasize that this performance preview is probably with very early drivers. So expect the card to perform even better when it launches with official drivers. Since this is early sample hardware, the specifications like clock speeds could change by the time it is released officially.
This is the 5870×2/2970, 100%.
Take a look at these pictures:
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/video/ati-radeon-hd-5870-x2-images-surface/
Look at the size comparison pictures.
The 5950 has a line through it.
The 5970 has a clean body.
The 5950 has a noticeable fan air export passage.
The 5970 has a round lining around the fan intake.
Now look at the pictures of this card.
There’s no doubt.
This is the 5970 and its benchmarks.
All that’s left to find out is the release date.
From my research, most rumors say that the X2 cards will be out in Mid-November. But then again, there’s rumors on vr-zone saying that the 5900 series will be released in Spring 2010.
Personally, I’m done trying to hold on. I locked $750 into a savings account, and I’m going to let it come when it comes.
okay not that I am disagreeing with the fact that the actual physical card is a 5970, but the benchmarks are not from a 5970. The 5870 has 1600 shaders, and the 5970 was set to have 3200. If you can find the pictures that were previously posted here with the benchmarks on them, the catalyst control center say 1600 shaders. Either this is a hoax, or ATI really has poor drivers yet. Perhaps they are taking nvidia’s tactic, use a card that functions similarly, and raise hype with a fake card?
@bruno747 – If you look at a screen of 4870×2 GPU-Z it shows 800 shaders when infact it has 1600 shaders (800 in each GPU but GPU-Z only shows shaders on one GPU). http://xtreview.com/images/hd4870z2cf/gpu-z%20HD%20487×2%20cf.png
Same goes for this upcoming card and why GPU-Z is showing 1600 shaders instead of 3200.
Hello! What the Pc case in photo? Thanks)
Antec 1200
The 5870 is a beast, saving money to buy one. Hopefully will put my hands on one of those beauties soon
Just want to ask, why is it 5970 shown in pic above have different appearance compared to stock ATI 5970? The stock 5970 have sharp edges and while the above pic shows it have curvy with lines edges? Plus, it looks cool!!!
It was a pre-release engineering sample.
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