I hate to say it, but Aria had 2GB 5870 Vapor-X cards for £350. If that offer rolls around again, some of us could "do" this card for £700. Admittedly, the overclocks may vary, but for £200+ saved, I'm a happy man.
could we have the clocks lowered to stock 5970, so we can see if the 2GB actually makes a difference vs a 5970? (id assume this only affects 2560, so benches for that?)
also SLI GTX480s cost around this much, could we get benches vs that aswell?
No doubt that this is an excellent achievement by Sapphire, but IMO it makes little sense.
While you claim it'll beat a conventional Crossfire setup as it has a healthy overclock I foresee bandwidth issues, especially in more modern games using DX11 and tessalation. The advantage of a traditional 2x 5870 setup is you get a full 16x PCI-E slot to each GPU; whereas with this solution each GPU is recieving 8x each, twinned with the enormous amoun tof memory to fill I think regular Crossfire may scale better at higher resolution/detail.
Final problem is you can buy 2 5870's cheaper than a single 5970, possibly even overclocked models.
Originally Posted by JCBeastie No doubt that this is an excellent achievement by Sapphire, but IMO it makes little sense.
While you claim it'll beat a conventional Crossfire setup as it has a healthy overclock I foresee bandwidth issues, especially in more modern games using DX11 and tessalation. The advantage of a traditional 2x 5870 setup is you get a full 16x PCI-E slot to each GPU; whereas with this solution each GPU is recieving 8x each, twinned with the enormous amoun tof memory to fill I think regular Crossfire may scale better at higher resolution/detail.
Final problem is you can buy 2 5870's cheaper than a single 5970, possibly even overclocked models.
It's for the same reason why people set benchmark records.
Originally Posted by shaffaaf27 could we have the clocks lowered to stock 5970, so we can see if the 2GB actually makes a difference vs a 5970? (id assume this only affects 2560, so benches for that?)
also SLI GTX480s cost around this much, could we get benches vs that aswell?
Would it be possible to review (or update this one) with some benches at 5760*1080 to see how much benefit the extra memory (and overlock) gives at this sort of resolution.
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ReplyStill one of the highest performance increases ive seen in a pre-overclocked card compared to stock. Nice job sapphire.
Amazing!
I'll have all that power eventually.
Makes me wonder why the Arctic Cooling stuff is tested so rarely...:p
Which may mean never!
That's how many
also SLI GTX480s cost around this much, could we get benches vs that aswell?
While you claim it'll beat a conventional Crossfire setup as it has a healthy overclock I foresee bandwidth issues, especially in more modern games using DX11 and tessalation. The advantage of a traditional 2x 5870 setup is you get a full 16x PCI-E slot to each GPU; whereas with this solution each GPU is recieving 8x each, twinned with the enormous amoun tof memory to fill I think regular Crossfire may scale better at higher resolution/detail.
Final problem is you can buy 2 5870's cheaper than a single 5970, possibly even overclocked models.
It's for the same reason why people set benchmark records.
Good call.
Willy wavers card? :P
I'd agree it looks a lot worse than the the reference cards. But imagine 2 of these in crossfire... Hmmm.. :-)
Would it be possible to review (or update this one) with some benches at 5760*1080 to see how much benefit the extra memory (and overlock) gives at this sort of resolution.
Ahh. Didn't see that bit.
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