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AMD ATI Radeon HD 5670 revealed?

by Parm Mann on 2 December 2009, 15:59

Tags: ATI Radeon HD 5670, AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Looks as though an unreleased ATI graphics card has made its way into the hands of one eager enthusiast.

The 40nm card, pictured below by a poster at hardforum.com, is said to be AMD's forthcoming ATI Radeon HD 5670 - a low-end addition to the DX11, 5000-series line.

Codenamed Redwood, the card has been rumoured to be on course for a Q1 2010 launch, and leaked specifications suggest a GPU clocked at 775MHz and 1GB of GDDR5 memory operating at an effective 4,000MHz.

We'll have to take the specification with a pinch of salt, of course, but leaked details also point out 400 shaders, 16 ROPs, a 64GB/s of memory bandwidth and a texture fillrate of 103.3 GTexels/s.

According to the poster, AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5670 scores 859 on the Unigine benchmark, a 23 per cent increase when compared to the previous-generation ATI Radeon HD 4670.

AMD has yet to officially confirm specifications, but this could be one to watch out for at next month's CES. Priced at under the $100 mark, it could well be another imminent thorn in NVIDIA's side.



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amd keep releasing new and innovative cards while nvidia rebrand. its embarrassingly one sided.
Maybe AMD should distripute the cards they have already made, instead of making new inovations
Jimbo75
amd keep releasing new and innovative cards while nvidia rebrand. its embarrassingly one sided.

I wouldn't call what they've done particularly innovative… They just die shrunk the 4 series and increased the number of shaders etc, architecturally it's not hugely different apart from DX11 support - which is what all manufacturers are doing sooner or later, and it's not as if DX11 is an AMD/ATI idea, they're just implementing something someone else dreamt up.

23% faster… pretty meh considering it has 25% more shaders than a 4670! :sleep:

What NVidia are doing wrong is being late to the party though while AMD/ATI are releasing new products (albeit with shaky availability)…

Maybe NVidia will do OK though, by the time Fermi shows up TSMC might have worked out their 40nm yield issues at AMD/ATIs expense?
kingpotnoodle
I wouldn't call what they've done particularly innovative… They just die shrunk the 4 series and increased the number of shaders etc, architecturally it's not hugely different apart from DX11 support - which is what all manufacturers are doing sooner or later, and it's not as if DX11 is an AMD/ATI idea, they're just implementing something someone else dreamt up.

23% faster… pretty meh considering it has 25% more shaders than a 4670! :sleep:

What NVidia are doing wrong is being late to the party though while AMD/ATI are releasing new products (albeit with shaky availability)…

Maybe NVidia will do OK though, by the time Fermi shows up TSMC might have worked out their 40nm yield issues at AMD/ATIs expense?

The HD5670 will be cheap to make and have low power consumption. If TSMC can increase yields ATI can lower costs of the cards.

This means you will find it in many desktops and notebooks. Perhaps you should see how many HD4650 DDR3 and GDDR3 cards are in notebooks for example and is the fastest graphics card available in most sub Ā£800 notebooks.

If the equivalent Fermi offers better performance for a similar die size then ATI are in trouble.

Also availability of the HD5750 and HD5770 seems fine to me. Ebuyer has plenty of them:

http://www.ebuyer.com/search?sort=pricelow&q=hd5750&limit=10&page=1

http://www.ebuyer.com/search?sort=pricelow&q=hd%2B5770&limit=10&page=1

Also the 8800GT had massive issues with availability and relatively high pricing for months when it was released in late 2007 in the UK so Nvidia has also had issues with availability when a card was more popular than expected.

Short supplies and relatively high pricing of new CPUs and GPUs at launch and even a few months after launch has happened loads of times in the last 10 years so it is not that unusual TBH.

Even the latest Nvidia G310 is a rebrand of the G210. Even the 9800GTX which replaced the 8800GTX had very little performance increase and the same goes with the 9800GT which was a rebadge of the 8800GT.

Lets wait until Nvidia releases its graphics cards and we can see which graphics cards are better value for money.
Maybe AMD should distripute the cards they have already made, instead of making new inovations

So far from what I read the 5000 series especially the 5870 has been a complete joke regarding stock shortage.