PowerColor AX5770 1GBD5-H ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E $129 AR FS @ ZZF

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PowerColor AX5770 1GBD5-H ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E 2.1 x16, DVI-I (Dual Link), VGA, HDMI, CrossFireX Supported Video Card.


http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10012284


This looks a bit promising but I still think most video prices are pretty outrageous. I bought a 260gtx for 130 LAST YEAR. I'm thinking prices are gonna drop once Nvidia releases it's cards soon.








PowerColor AX5770 1GBD5-H ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E 2.1 x16, DVI-I (Dual Link), VGA, HDMI, CrossFireX Supported Video Card - Retail

•1.04 billion 40nm transistors
•TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
•800 Stream Processing Units
•40 Texture Units
•64 Z/Stencil ROP Units
•16 Z/Stencil ROP Units
•GDDR5 memory interface
•PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
•DirectX® 11 support
•Shader Model 5.0
•DirectCompute 11
•Programmable hardware tessellation unit
•Accelerated multi-threading
•HDR texture compression
•Order-independent transparency
•OpenGL 3.2 support1
•Image quality enhancement technology
•Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
•Adaptive anti-aliasing
•16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
•128-bit floating point HDR rendering
•ATI Stream acceleration technology
•OpenCL 1.0 compliant
•DirectCompute 11
•Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling4,5
•Native support for common video encoding instructions
•ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology6
•Dual, triple, and quad GPU scaling
•Dual-channel bridge interconnect
•ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology7
•UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
•Advanced post-processing and scaling8
•Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
•Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)
•Independent video gamma control
•Dynamic video range control
•Support for H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2
•Dual-stream 1080p playback support9,10
•DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
•Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP11
■Max resolution: 2560x160012
•Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
■Max resolution: 1920x120012
•Integrated VGA output
■Max resolution: 2048x153612
•Integrated HD audio controller
■Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
■Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio format
•ATI PowerPlay™ power management technology7
•Dynamic power management with low power idle state
•Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations
•Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP


-Stolen from rebcon1 on FW
 
Pretty decent price for a solid card. Compares well performance wise against a 4870 but while using a lot less power. I have the PCS+ version and the cooler works pretty well without being noisy
 
HitmanZ said:
This looks a bit promising but I still think most video prices are pretty outrageous. I bought a 260gtx for 130 LAST YEAR. I'm thinking prices are gonna drop once Nvidia releases it's cards soon.
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This just saved my wallet...
 
it is very likely that the 5870 and the 5770 will drop to below $200 and below $100, it just takes time.

ATi will have another generation of videocards. The 5 series isn't the last one!

What could prevent those prices from dropping is yields and demand. ATi claimed a while back that yields are a lot better and TSMC said that they will have more than double the total 40nm capacity before the end of the year. If Nvidia never comes up with a competitive product (in volume) though, could make it easier for prices to stay high as long as consumer demand equals or exceeds ATi's production.
 
needmorecarnitine said:
it is very likely that the 5870 and the 5770 will drop to below $200 and below $100, it just takes time.

ATi will have another generation of videocards. The 5 series isn't the last one!

What could prevent those prices from dropping is yields and demand. ATi claimed a while back that yields are a lot better and TSMC said that they will have more than double the total 40nm capacity before the end of the year. If Nvidia never comes up with a competitive product (in volume) though, could make it easier for prices to stay high as long as consumer demand equals or exceeds ATi's production.
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well yeah but by that time games will be even more demanding and will need a 6 series to push it correctly with dx12 etc.
 
Nexx said:
well yeah but by that time games will be even more demanding and will need a 6 series to push it correctly with dx12 etc.
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:rolleyes:

The prices on the 5870 and 5770 will drop before the 6 series comes out. Net rumors are the ATi's next gen (and Nvidia's) will be announced at the end of this year. Even if product comes out in Q1 of 2011, there is no way that DX12 will be out by then...



:rolleyes:
 
Nexx said:
as a famous philosopher once said.... "Cocaine!!!! It's a helluva drug!!!"
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LOL. I do think those expecting these cards to drop in price by leaps and bounds are quite right. What we are experiencing here is a lack of competition from Nvidia. Remember how expensive Intel chips were before AMD made news with their Athlons? Remember how AMD had to drop it's prices when Intel Core2 duo took the crown? Even ATI had to change it's structure because Nvidia was outperforming their cards.
 
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