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HEXUS.net EF review yay!

Hard|ocp EF review to follow
ExtremeTech

5970 will support CF with EF from launch, however 5870 (et al) CF with EF will have to wait til next year!

EDIT: more:
Anandtech
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TweakTown

No available in NZ for...1200NZ$!!!!

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Official Press Release

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http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-5970-review-test/

The Guru3d is nice they even crossifre 2 5970's :lol:

From Anandtech:
Below we have a passive mini-DP to single-link DVI adapter. This is only capable of driving a maximum of 1920 x 1200:

This cable works fine on the Radeon HD 5970, but I couldn't have one of my displays running at a non-native resolution.

Wonder if that is true; I doubt it, I guess he hasn't used the adapter in EF mode, only single screen.

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Yes they should know better than to create more confusion about displayport and adapters.

Id be tempted for the upgrade :D but cant afford it right now and most of all its only 2GB of ram for the whole card, thus only 1GB usable RAM with the cards in crossfire.

I think a few of us already think that just a 5870 needs more than 1GB for ultra high res games, a 5970 should really have 2x2GB of VRAM....

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From Anandtech:
Below we have a passive mini-DP to single-link DVI adapter. This is only capable of driving a maximum of 1920 x 1200:

This cable works fine on the Radeon HD 5970, but I couldn't have one of my displays running at a non-native resolution.

Wonder if that is true; I doubt it, I guess he hasn't used the adapter in EF mode, only single screen.

It was probably using only 1 of the 2 legacy clocks and they didn't have 2 other displays plugged in. Ofcourse it would have worked, but that and 3 display won't. These guys miss the whole 2 clock limitation point. If you've only got 1 display port being used it'll work just fine, but try using 3 ports with that and you'll be SOL. Whether misinformation, or ignorance, it's an incrediably bad idea for them to have that in the article, which could dredge up round 2 of the passive adapter debacle.

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wow when 5870 were reviewed I thought NVIDIA was late , but now ...

things don't look too pleasant for NVIDIA this time around
for those who remember, I told you guys that hardware.fr estimated Fermi shaders to run @1.6Ghz, new estimates from NVIDIA GigaFlops are now heading in the direction of 1.1~1.2Ghz much to their surprise.
Of course, that's all for the professional world so maybe they got something kept under their sleeves ...

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The number of transistors always works as an indicator of how powerful a product will be

never read something more wrong than that :roll:

Crossfire X Eyefinity is a proof of concept on the 5970 drivers, partially as there is a more controlled environment between the two ASIC's (i.e. the PLX bridge) and it limited to a smaller set of profiled applications. We're doing some work to alter how this is achieved and we expect to have this opened up for the rest of the HD 5000 series in early 2010.

From the article http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2356037,00.asp

Because the Radeon HD 5970 is the first graphics card on the market to support AMD's Eyefinity multimonitor technology

Correct me if I am wrong, but you can have Eyefinity on a 5870.

From the article http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2356037,00.asp

Because the Radeon HD 5970 is the first graphics card on the market to support AMD's Eyefinity multimonitor technology

Correct me if I am wrong, but you can have Eyefinity on a 5870.

you're right, is there even a serious review/reviewer/website out there ? :roll: