The Radeon HD 5870, as shipped, is a very powerful graphics card – more than most people need, even, and at the very least, enough for anyone. Except, apparently, Asus.
You might not be a big graphics card PC buff, but in the under $US100 sector, the new ATI Radeon HD 5570 is definitely a product to know. Tom’s Hardware shares their excellent, extremely thorough review of the product here.
Well, this is nice: a Radeon HD 5000 series graphics card available on the cheap. It looks like you’re not sacrificing much in performance, either: The $US60 Radeon 5450 has full DX11 graphics and Eyefinity multi-display support.
There’s nothing new coming your way in terms of aesthetics from MSI’s line of “C” laptops, but under the hood we’ve got Core i Series processors. One of these fellas even sports an ATI Radeon HD5470 graphics card.
There’s something about ATI Engineering’s logo, as spotted by reader bammac on a recent trip to Napier in New Zealand, that looks vaguely familiar. I can’t quite put my finger on it… Wait a minute! I’ve got it! It’s the apple up dotting the ‘I’! Man, I bet Cupertino are gonna let their lawyers run wild with this one…
ATI continues pressing the three-month lead it has over Nvidia’s next-gen Fermi architecture with another set of DirectX 11–supporting graphics cards – this time for notebooks, with the Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series. Preview benchmarks show the top-of-the-line 5870 wiping the floor with Nvidia’s topper, the GTX 280M. [AMD, Anandtech]
According to a report on DigiTimes, Nvidia’s new 40nm DirectX 11-friendly Fermi chipset, after encountering development delays, has been pushed back again. Originally slated for November 2009, now we’re looking at March 2010 for the release. Meanwhile, ATI will release its comparable 40nm chips in January or February. [DigiTimes]
Last week Intel blabbed to us that its high-end Larrabee card would never debut as a “standalone discrete product,” and now its demise has been made official. Can you hear Nvidia and AMD crowing from where you are too? [Reuters]
Intel just told us that its first Larrabee graphics card isn’t ever coming out “as standalone discrete product,” because they’re behind where they’d hoped to be in development, meaning you won’t be shoving one inside of your PC anytime soon.
