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No Price Drops Planned For AMD ATI Radeon HD 5830 or HD 5850
The recent launch of the NVIDIA Enthusiast product line up culminating in today's GTX 460 has prompted some to speculate that the DirectX-11-Done-First-By-9-Months-Team is going to lower prices, to combat perceived performance and feature competition.
Well, it just ain't so. The HD 5830 uses the Cypress ASIC in 'LE' configuration - drastically reduced Stream Processor count from it's original 1600SP design for the HD 5870. In fact, it's a pure harvest product - it's the leftover wannabe HD 5850 and HD 5870's, voltage bumped and sold to AMD's Add-In Board partners to market how they wish. Because of that, the partners have a lot of flexibility in design (custom coolers, PCB's, bundled games etc.). This flexibility, coupled with the nature of the harvested GPU cores used, mean you might see a few manufacturers drop prices but you won't see an across the board adjustment of SEP to, say, $175USD. Boo, Hiss.
For the HD 5850, it continues to hold it's own against the now three fold competition - cheaper, less performing GTX 460 and 465, and the more expensive high performing GTX 470. Now each of these cards has their own special highlight - low power and heat from the GTX 460 and HD 5850, PhysX and 3D Surround for all the NVIDIA cards, with AMD's top trump Eyefinity remaining for the HD 5850. Don't forget the HD 5000 series offers great HTPC features (7.1 HBR audio for Blu-Ray bit streaming of DTS Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD), and someday, at some point, there will be hardware to buy to get 3D gaming and movies on them as well. (holds breath) Oh yeah, and the Open Physics Initiative (inhales again)
One of the most often cited drawbacks of ATI Eyefinity technology is the DisplayPort requirement. Despite the fact that an active DisplayPort adapter is hundreds of dollars cheaper than requiring two high-end cards (and the appropriate motherboard, powersupply and cooling to host two GPU's) to run three displays, the technology is compelling enough that everyone wants a taste of it.
There will shortly be a passive DisplayPort to Single-link DVI adapter available, meaning you can use three DVI displays with your HD 5000 series card. Obviously, a single-link DVI output means that resolutions above 1920x1200 won't be available, but given that this solution is to address price concerns this means that more than just about all available displays can use this without any problems.
With an estimated street price of $20, and hopes to get it bundled with new HD 5000 series cards in the future, AMD's ATI Eyefinity Technology just got a whole lot cheaper.
And that's why there is no price drops for the HD 5830 and HD 5850 - they sell on their own strengths well enough, thanks.
Thanks to Evan @ AMD for clarifying details for us.
Credit: http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthre...eadid=33965855
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The recent launch of the NVIDIA Enthusiast product line up culminating in today's GTX 460 has prompted some to speculate that the DirectX-11-Done-First-By-9-Months-Team is going to lower prices, to combat perceived performance and feature competition.
Well, it just ain't so. The HD 5830 uses the Cypress ASIC in 'LE' configuration - drastically reduced Stream Processor count from it's original 1600SP design for the HD 5870. In fact, it's a pure harvest product - it's the leftover wannabe HD 5850 and HD 5870's, voltage bumped and sold to AMD's Add-In Board partners to market how they wish. Because of that, the partners have a lot of flexibility in design (custom coolers, PCB's, bundled games etc.). This flexibility, coupled with the nature of the harvested GPU cores used, mean you might see a few manufacturers drop prices but you won't see an across the board adjustment of SEP to, say, $175USD. Boo, Hiss.
For the HD 5850, it continues to hold it's own against the now three fold competition - cheaper, less performing GTX 460 and 465, and the more expensive high performing GTX 470. Now each of these cards has their own special highlight - low power and heat from the GTX 460 and HD 5850, PhysX and 3D Surround for all the NVIDIA cards, with AMD's top trump Eyefinity remaining for the HD 5850. Don't forget the HD 5000 series offers great HTPC features (7.1 HBR audio for Blu-Ray bit streaming of DTS Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD), and someday, at some point, there will be hardware to buy to get 3D gaming and movies on them as well. (holds breath) Oh yeah, and the Open Physics Initiative (inhales again)
One of the most often cited drawbacks of ATI Eyefinity technology is the DisplayPort requirement. Despite the fact that an active DisplayPort adapter is hundreds of dollars cheaper than requiring two high-end cards (and the appropriate motherboard, powersupply and cooling to host two GPU's) to run three displays, the technology is compelling enough that everyone wants a taste of it.
There will shortly be a passive DisplayPort to Single-link DVI adapter available, meaning you can use three DVI displays with your HD 5000 series card. Obviously, a single-link DVI output means that resolutions above 1920x1200 won't be available, but given that this solution is to address price concerns this means that more than just about all available displays can use this without any problems.
With an estimated street price of $20, and hopes to get it bundled with new HD 5000 series cards in the future, AMD's ATI Eyefinity Technology just got a whole lot cheaper.
And that's why there is no price drops for the HD 5830 and HD 5850 - they sell on their own strengths well enough, thanks.
Thanks to Evan @ AMD for clarifying details for us.
Credit: http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthre...eadid=33965855
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