AMD CEO: Next-Gen Radeon Launches Next Week

g1xx3r said:
Yay.even more powerful hardware to play shitty console ports on.:rolleyes:
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:eek:

g1xx3r said:
lol..I think Nvidia and ATI better get a game development division going if they want to stay in business..I mean really,for what game do we need more powerful video cards for??Of course some just want the newest and latest for the sake of having it but I really dont see the need until the PC becomes the lead platform again or at the very least we get proper conversions and not shitty ports..My .02 cents.
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One one hand "Great idea!!" (at least this way we'd have more plentiful *real* PC games again!)

ohhhhh wait.

On the other... Not so much. (You think we have issues now with undercutting hacks -think back to the nonsense w/benchmark 'tweaks', or games favoring one brand or the other...could you imagine??? I mean, we'd quite literally have to own one card from each brand just to play any given game on a whim)

On the main note though...I do hope that it's a hard launch (as some already have doubts here lol) and personally there's no reason that it won't be. AMD/ATI has been far more on target over the last couple of launches than in years past, and that's served us all well!!
 
Things that are bad with the 6 series release / shipment.

1. 5 Series drops price
2. nVidia cards drop price to compete
3. Hardware pushing forward yields gaming industry moving forward
4. Combo deals on TD / Newegg
5. ?????
6. PROFIT!

If I see one more negative statement against this, the terrorists win.
 
Headcase said:
Things that are bad with the 6 series release / shipment.

1. 5 Series drops price
2. nVidia cards drop price to compete
3. Hardware pushing forward yields gaming industry moving forward
4. Combo deals on TD / Newegg
5. ?????
6. PROFIT!

If I see one more negative statement against this, the terrorists win.
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If they release these cards then everyone will turn gay.
 
g1xx3r said:
I mean really,for what game do we need more powerful video cards for??
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I would say the same thing about the card in your sig (SLI GTX480s). ;) I doubt any console port needs that considering they run pretty well on my 4830. Ultimately we don't NEED any of this stuff, each person has to decide for themselves. I've had $50 cards and $400 cards and was happy with both.

Honestly I'd be perfectly happy with today's graphics quality if there were more games with original gameplay/stories coming out. At least half the games released nowadays are sequels or remakes, and even the ones that aren't are often totally generic and might as well be.
 
travbrad said:
Honestly I'd be perfectly happy with today's graphics quality if there were more games with original gameplay/stories coming out. At least half the games released nowadays are sequels or remakes, and even the ones that aren't are often totally generic and might as well be.
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Amen!


Let's get some more originals of the quality of the original half-life. By today's graphics standards half-life is pretty old/junk. However, I had a damn fun time playing it and I would again today if I replayed it. It would just run extremely fast today on absolute maximum settings :D

Give me more games like that. I don't care if the video quality gets any better as long as the gameplay/story is great.



back on subject - I just have to quote myself:

robble said:
FFS all the crying. It's the next generation. When is that ever bad news?
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and say someone got it right. It's bad news to whoever had the number one spot video card as they aren't the fastest/best thing on the market anymore. Other than that it's all good.
 
another-user said:
come on sub $75 dollar 5770, i want to play around with crossfire.
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Absolutely. The value is tempting even now though. 2x5770's bench neck in neck with a 5870. Considering a moderately O/C 5750 can match or best a stock 5770, this makes a pair of 5750's at just over $200 (after rebate) one hell of a deal. 5870 performance now at half the price.
What do you guys think?
Is the new trend multiple cheap cards that will use more power, but cost less?
 
Look forward to a new run of factory-overclocked Nvidia cards to come out and be reviewed against these in stock speed! :rolleyes:
 
g1xx3r said:
Yay.even more powerful hardware to play shitty console ports on.:rolleyes:
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No kidding. Unless you are running multiple monitor, any of current cards in the market is more than enough to handle current games

I'm still using my good old GTX 295. Apart from not being able to run Crysis at insane AA level, I dont have any problems with any games I own.
 
don't really understand the multiple monitor thing, then again I play on a 46 inch samsung sitting maybe 5-6 feet away from the set. Got rid of my computer desk an 24 inch monitor completely, the PC is now the HTPC, and the recliner is the computer chair.

Aside from crysis and the stalker games like call of prypyat which seem to be laggy no matter what settings I use, most games run fine. I may give AMD a try though and upgrade my old GTX 260... I hear the stalker games run smoother on AMD cards anyways and I could use the upgrade.
 
I know it may seem a little lame, but I'm looking forward to what their new low power SFF cards will be like.

The improvement in power consumption for performance with the 4 generation to 5 was very tempting, and my HTPC as some (strangely, not all) blu ray disks are causing heat or power consumption issues in my box... or this may just drive the price on the 5xxx's down enough that I'll be able to justify the expense.
 
WBurchnall said:
I'm hoping that if lots of cheap high powered hardware comes out, developers will look at the high adoption rates of relatively high powered cheap hardware and design their games based around that level of computational power. Whether it be from nVidia or ATI I don't really care. That is assuming its a PC developer. If its a console port, then, yeah. We can already play anything from a console at 1920x1080x8xaa and still easily maintain 60fps and more towards 120 fps.
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That would be really nice, but the steam hardware survey will still show p4s and and 2005 graphics in high numbers most likely. So it won't happen. Also as mentioned console port to pc complier is all devs know now.

But we added mouse and keyboard support! And text chat. :D
 
kllrnohj said:
Psst, you should probably read those other threads (hint: 5770 CF works great, and 58xx CF is mostly fixed)
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Compared to where SLI was three years ago maybe. Fermi scales better than any dual set up thus far.
 
I hope ATI prices these cards right, just hope it ain't like $300 AUS here, though I wouldn't be surprised if it did hit that high, launch prices here in Australia is bullshit.
 
bacon said:
Compared to where SLI was three years ago maybe. Fermi scales better than any dual set up thus far.
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Hes referencing the massive performance drop in certain games with CF enabled. SLI is for sure the scaling king, has been for a while now.
 
funkydmunky said:
Absolutely. The value is tempting even now though. 2x5770's bench neck in neck with a 5870. Considering a moderately O/C 5750 can match or best a stock 5770, this makes a pair of 5750's at just over $200 (after rebate) one hell of a deal. 5870 performance now at half the price.
What do you guys think?
Is the new trend multiple cheap cards that will use more power, but cost less?
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Could be but add in the cost of a more powerful power supply and a decent motherboard that supports multiple video cards and the cost difference is less.
 
Alright, maybe I'll consider going DX11 cards now. Oh wait, everything I play is still in DX9 and some DX10 level. Hooray for developers not giving a crap about the newest and best and instead catering to the 5-7 year old technology people
 
not excited about any games in the pipeline until Q2 of next year.

but, I hope this drives prices even further down. I may move on up to dx11 now.
 
stiltner said:
Alright, maybe I'll consider going DX11 cards now. Oh wait, everything I play is still in DX9 and some DX10 level. Hooray for developers not giving a crap about the newest and best and instead catering to the 5-7 year old technology people
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it's not the technology they're catering to, but the fact that a lot of people are still using Windows XP. Until they move away from it, I'd expect some more DirectX 11 titles will begin filling the shelves.
 
housecat said:
Oh man. I'm so torn to keep my 5870 or get the 6870.

If I can actually order and receive a 6870 next week, I might have to do it. I'm sickeningly addicted to the awesomeness that has been the 5870 since it's launch day, the first day I had this precious piece of engineering and enabled so much 1920x1200 gaming goodness on my LCD and 1920x1080 gaming goodness on my plasma tv.
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Heh, seems like AMD's new naming scheme is already making a victim out of you. By going from a HD 5870 to HD 6870 you would actually be downgrading, but that's your business...or rather AMD's for deceiving you into it.
 
Well, I think I'd figured it out when I saw benchmarks, certainly wouldnt place an order without.
 
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