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5670 Review

Folowing up 5670, looks like the low end part is arriving soon as well. From arabhardware.net forums some photos and quick benchmarks of the Radeon 5450(Cedar): http://www.arabhardware.net/forum/showthread.php?t=153562 (Probably should have started a new thread for this but anyway)
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- Post #37
- Jan 13, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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5670 Review

The chip also has a DDR3 version the 5570, at the moment i can only find a chinese review that has been up for awhile here: http://vga.it168.com/a2010/0107/834/000000834487.shtml Provided the OEM supplies the required video outs think this should also support eyefinity and should come in...
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- Post #9
- Jan 13, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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5670 Review

AnandTech Hardwarezone have their 5670 review up early(don't think the others are due till the 14th): http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=3&id=3109 Looks quite a bit above the 4670, perhaps +50% in places, also just above the GT240, sometimes even breathing down the neck of...
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- Jan 13, 2010
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- Forum: Graphics Cards
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AMD HD5xxx sales figures: 300k HD58xx, 500k HD57xx

I cant imagine that they would want to do that much, as it pushes up inventory and increases chances of mispredicting future order quantities as would have to estimate too far into the future. There should be enough capacity on line now that can handle reasonable order quantities. The...
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- Post #50
- Dec 16, 2009
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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AMD HD5xxx sales figures: 300k HD58xx, 500k HD57xx

From TSMC : I assume the last part should read "40nm output will exceed 20,000 wafers per month by December of 2009" When considering relative amounts of wafers produced, make sure you include all the 40nm products: Nvidia : GT218, GT216, GT215, Fermi AMD : RV740, Cypress...
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- Post #47
- Dec 15, 2009
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Charlie Demerjian: Nvidia roadmaps turn up, Ugly and devoid of hope

I don't think the socket licensing fees will drop that fast. From intel's perspective their chipset business is now only really only selling a southbridge, they dont want the income for that division to plummet dramatically so they appear to be charging alot more for PCH + high socket fees to...
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- Post #46
- Sep 7, 2009
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Charlie Demerjian: Nvidia roadmaps turn up, Ugly and devoid of hope

It not only the above causing problems, there are technical obstacles as well as indicated by this article: Intel's triumvirate of licensing, high socket fees and low bandwidth have scorched the ground for third party chipsets.
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- Post #29
- Sep 2, 2009
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Geforce GTX 295 previews

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- Post #130
- Dec 20, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Geforce GTX 295 previews

If i was in the market for this card i would take that price. Will be very limited availability at first. Otherwise suggest hiberating in the basement till at least late january when should be more available. $499 for 2 55nm GT200s seems quite a good deal really, the GT280 is still close to...
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- Post #8
- Dec 17, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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GTX 280 cards coming down?

The recently released tesla fx card with a 55nm gt200 has a 512 bit memory bus suggesting that they managed to preserve that during the shrink. My preferred explanation is that the 295 board is too difficult to design with 2 x 512 bit memory interfaces and they have saved some board layers...
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- Post #21
- Dec 9, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Where the hell is my GTX 290

It's turkish i think. So GTX260+ mid january and GTX285 + 260GX2 late jan early feb. Your step up should be fine. I think the theory behind the later 285 release is that not many chips of the wafer are perfect and they will need time to bin enough of these to put together a release.
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- Post #11
- Dec 8, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Nvidia stockpiles 55nm parts for a massive assult on ATI

Expreview has put up a picture of zotacs new GTX260 board for the 55nm GT200s: http://en.expreview.com/2008/1...nm-geforce-gtx260.html The P654 10 layer board replaces the original P651 14 layer board. New power module, and memory has been moved all to one side of the board using samsung...
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- Post #73
- Dec 5, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Nvidia stockpiles 55nm parts for a massive assult on ATI

I have been thinking this, and having real difficulty explaining it at all... Look here the expreview article: http://en.expreview.com/2008/1...5nm-gt200-exposed.html Suposedly 55nm Gt200 product date week 33 2008 (ie august 11-17) They were producing 65nm parts only a few weeks before...
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- Post #55
- Dec 4, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Nvidia stockpiles 55nm parts for a massive assult on ATI

It is generally quoted that a single 300mm 65nm die from TSMC costs around $5000. TSMC has lots of customers so i guess over time the info has leaked out somehow. 55nm is more expensive but hopefully not too much. So for a back of the napkin calculation: Total die area = pi * (300/2)^2 =...
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- Post #43
- Dec 4, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Dual GT200 samples in December

Also the 280 would have to design a board with 2x512bit memory interfaces compared to 2x448bit memory for the 260. All the dual cards so far 7950, 3870, 9800, 4870 appear to have been 256 bit mem interfaces jumping to 448bit in roughly the same area would be hard enough let alone 512. The...
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- Post #33
- Dec 3, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards

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