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ATI Radeon HD 5870 hits the rumour mill

by Parm Mann on 29 April 2009, 12:26

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD)

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Now that ATI has established a 40nm manufacturing process with its Radeon HD 4770, it was only a matter of time before the rumour mill began to churn out details of other upcoming 40nm parts.

Today, the attention's turning to potential RV870-based parts. According to German site hardware-infos.com, ATI's RV770 successor will arrive as soon as July '09 in the form of the Radeon HD 5870 and the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5870 X2.

It is, of course, entirely speculation at this moment in time. However, should the report be believed, the products will line up with the following specifications:

Graphics cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 1,024MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 1,024MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 896MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 X2 2,048MB* ATI Radeon HD 5870 1,024MB* AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 2,048MB AMD Radeon HD 4850 X2 2,048MB AMD Radeon HD 4890 1,024MB AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB AMD Radeon HD 4850 512MB
PCIe PCIe 2.0
GPU(s) clock 576MHz 648MHz 602MHz 633MHz 576MHz 950MHz 900MHz 750MHz 625MHz 850MHz 750MHz 625MHz
Shader clock 1,242MHz 1,476MHz 1,296MHz 1,404MHz 1,242MHz 950MHz 900MHz 750MHz 625MHz 850MHz 750MHz 625MHz
Memory clock (effective) 1,998MHz 2,484MHz 2,214MHz 2,322MHz 1,998MHz 4,600MHz 4,400MHz 3,600MHz 1,986MHz 3,900MHz 3,600MHz 1,986MHz
Memory interface and size 448-bit (per GPU), 1,792MB, GDDR3 512-bit, 1,024MB, GDDR3 512-bit, 1,024MB, GDDR3 448-bit, 896MB, GDDR3 448-bit, 896MB, GDDR3 512-bit (2x 256-bit), 2,048MB, GDDR5 256-bit, 1,024MB, GDDR5 512-bit (2x 256-bit), 2,048MB, GDDR5 512-bit (2x 256-bit), 2,048MB, GDDR3 256-bit, 1,024MB, GDDR5 256-bit, 512MB, GDDR5 256-bit, 512MB, GDDR3
Manufacturing process TSMC, 55nm TSMC, 55nm TSMC, 65nm TSMC, 55nm TSMC, 65nm TSMC, 40nm TSMC, 40nm TSMC, 55nm TSMC, 55nm TSMC, 55nm TSMC, 55nm TSMC, 55nm
DirectX/ Shader Model DX10, 4.0 DX10, 4.0 DX10, 4.0 DX10, 4.0 DX10, 4.0 DX11, 5.0 DX11, 5.0 DX10.1, 4.1 DX10.1, 4.1 DX10.1, 4.1 DX10.1, 4.1 DX10.1, 4.1
Vertex, fragment, geometry shading (shared) 480 FP32 scalar ALUs, MADD dual-issue + MUL (unified) 240 FP32 scalar ALUs, MADD dual-issue + MUL (unified) 240 FP32 scalar ALUs, MADD dual-issue + MUL (unified) 240 FP32 scalar ALUs, MADD dual-issue + MUL (unified) 216 FP32 scalar ALUs, MADD dual-issue + MUL (unified) 2,400 FP32 scalar ALUs, MADD dual-issue (unified) 1,200 FP32 scalar ALUs, MADD dual-issue (unified) 1,600 FP32 scalar ALUs, MADD dual-issue (unified) 1,600 FP32 scalar ALUs, MADD dual-issue (unified) 800 FP32 scalar ALUs, MADD dual-issue (unified) 800 FP32 scalar ALUs, MADD dual-issue (unified) 800 FP32 scalar ALUs, MADD dual-issue (unified)
Data sampling and filtering 160ppc address and 160ppc bilinear INT8/80ppc FP16 filtering, max 16xAF 80ppc address and 80ppc bilinear INT8/40ppc FP16 filtering, max 16xAF 80ppc address and 80ppc bilinear INT8/40ppc FP16 filtering, max 16xAF 72ppc address and 72ppc bilinear INT8/36ppc FP16 filtering, max 16xAF 72ppc address and 72ppc bilinear INT8/36ppc FP16 filtering, max 16xAF 192ppc address and 192ppc bilinear INT8/96ppc FP16 filtering, max 16xAF 96ppc address and 96ppc bilinear INT8/48ppc FP16 filtering, max 16xAF 80ppc address and 80ppc bilinear INT8/40ppc FP16 filtering, max 16xAF 80ppc address and 80ppc bilinear INT8/40ppc FP16 filtering, max 16xAF 40ppc address and 40ppc bilinear INT8/20ppc FP16 filtering, max 16xAF 40ppc address and 40ppc bilinear INT8/20ppc FP16 filtering, max 16xAF 40ppc address and 40ppc bilinear INT8/ 20ppc FP16 filtering, max 16xAF
ROPs 56 32 32 28 28 64 32 32 32 16 16 16
Peak GFLOPS 1,788 1,063 933 1,011 805 4,560 2,160 2,400 2,000 1,360 1,200 1,000
Peak fillrate Gpixels/s 32.256 20.736 19.264 17.724 16.128 60.8 28.8 24 20 13.6 12 10
Peak Gtexel/s (bilinear) 92.2 51.84 48.16 45.576 41.472 91.2 86.4 60 50 34 30 25
Peak Gtexel/s (FP16, bilinear) 46.1 25.92 24.09 22.788 20.736 45.6 43.2 30 25 17 15 12.5
*rumoured product and specification

The numbers are anything but confirmed, but we could be looking at 4,560 GFLOPS from the Radeon HD 5870 X2 - almost double that of the Radeon HD 4870 X2.



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was hopin to hear about something more groundbreaking than just more of the same really, even if it is twice as fast.
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was hopin to hear about something more groundbreaking than just more of the same really, even if it is twice as fast.

groundbreaking how? first dx11 parts and a huge chunk faster than a 4870x2 sounds tasty tasty to me
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was hopin to hear about something more groundbreaking than just more of the same really, even if it is twice as fast.

It's twice as fast, full DX11 capable, uses the new 40nm process.. how much more groundbreaking do you want?
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was hopin to hear about something more groundbreaking than just more of the same really, even if it is twice as fast.

Er, what ground do you want broken? Flashing lights? Tea-making facilities?
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was hopin to hear about something more groundbreaking than just more of the same really, even if it is twice as fast.

Its all rumours but good to know a rough idea of dates and specs and that ATI is on the war path and keeping the heat on Nvidia.