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Saturday 28 August 2010

Some nerd stuff.

No, this will not be a blog about turntables, i didn't come up with a better name in the 2 minutes i spent thinking of the name, so i just used that.

Let's have a bit of technology info, for whoever is following the Graphic card market, ATi's 6xxx series is just around the corner, ATi/AMD themselves said that the first lineup 'Southern Islands' is gonna be a refresh of the quite successful yet somewhat underperforming 5xxx series.

They should be going retail in 2 months, nVidia is very far behind with their yet still unfinished GF104/100 lineup, they better shape up or it spells bad for us, think about it, without any good competition, ATi will raise prices and we're basically screwed, competition is always a good thing, you wouldn't want to see Intel CPU prices if AMD stopped their processor/chipset manufacturing.


Here's a early GPU-Z(nifty and compact software tool for detecting graphic cards) screencap

This wouldn't be available yet normally. but it is due to ATi Leaking some minor card specs in their new Driver release, Catalyst 10.8.

How does this compare to the top nVidia card currently out, the GTX 480?

Well, take a look.


This is a screecap of 3DMark Vantage, a benchmarking tool for CPU's and GPU's.

The overall score is 11963, what does this number mean?

Well, the GTX 480, if it's on the same hardware (a overclocked i7) would be getting around 9000-10000, depending on the coreclock/memory/shader and overall case hardware.

The only card that can currently rival this new card is the dual GPU Radeon 5970, a very expensive and high end card.

Keep in mind that the 5970 costs from 600$ - 1200$ depending on the brand, reference models are much cheaper, non reference models like the ARES and 5970 Toxic are around 1200$ and are simply monsters in the GPU world, of course, very few people have them due to the price.

To end this, this card lineup, according to the early leaks, looks VERY promising, if nVidia does the same like it did with their current lineup, delay the cards for 6 months and let ATi/AMD monopolize.. I don't think i have to explain that, it's basic marketing.

NOTE: All this just might be false, because it definitely ain't the first time something like this happened, but since we have nothing else about the new card lineup, we'll take what we get, i commend AMD/ATi for keeping things pretty tight on the info.

For more detailed info, go here.

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/08/27/first-radeon-hd-6800-series-benchmark-score-leak/

Should have just linked that in the first place, oh well, enjoy bashing your heads in if you're a nerd like myself.

104 comments:

  1. pretty cool. I'm not gonna read up on the graphics card market till i get enough money to actually build a computer. Maybe within the next year

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  3. Nice! GPUz is a great program, it's how I confirmed that my card was totally fucked =) Please check out my blog if you get a chance:

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  5. I have an ATI and love it way more than my old Nvidia

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  8. Interesting this may be ati's chance to catch up.

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  9. And this is why I'm glad I buy ati. Freaking nice.

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  10. My pc is from 2001....and then i have a netbook...long overdue for an update -.-

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  11. Great post. Very informative.

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  12. I've bought a new computer and I'm waiting for it to arrive =)
    New comp's stats:
    Athlon II X4 635 2.9Ghz
    2gb DDR3 1333mhz
    Radeon HD5670 512GDDR5
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  13. Great tech post, but I was REALLY hoping for turntables :)

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  16. cool, very informational, following you

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  17. Considering getting an i7, worth the price tag?
    Will follow once it lets me!

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  18. rockin the nvidia topend 6800 and I love it

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  20. Nicely said, but I'll just stick with the Nvidea G-Force Graphics cards.

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  21. i have a nvidia GTS 8800 GTS... can i play Mafia II with it?
    got 614MB Ram for my graphiccard..
    2GB RAM on my PC
    Intel core duo

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  22. On an unrelated topic, I like the background of your blog.

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  23. @Stuff And Hints

    I'd advise to wait for a few months til Intel churns out Sandy Bridge, otherwise, get a i7, you won't be replacing it for a good amount of time, i have a 920 myself and I'm loving it.

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  26. yeah, i totally approve with what erik said.

    and thanks for the info

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  27. Argh I desperately need to fix my computer. This netbook just doesn't fulfill my needs as a video game nerd. At all.

    Following for more updates on video cards. Might help me when I finally get a computer.

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  31. Informative blog, brother. Thanks.

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  34. Very useful stuff mate, thanks! In the process of building myself a new computer, so I've definitely bookmarked this post to look back on when I reach the graphics card portion. Keep up the good work!

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  36. Thanks for the info, very useful. I'll come back later to check your updates.

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  37. good info, ill be sure to do this guide once i finish my new PC

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  38. good info although i don't understand the half of it

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  39. I've got nVidia now since my 3 last Radeons just stopped working

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  40. My friend is planning on building a computer. Thanks for the info man, gonna send him this blog.

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  41. thanks a lot! I wish I knew more about your blog. I am dumb when it comes to this stuff. None the less interesting!

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  42. Nice post. I thinking about upgrading my graphics card. I might old off now and wait.

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  45. Interesting to see how this'll affect the prices in the future. Definitely an enlightening read.

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  46. damn that shits crazy

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  57. interesting but ill stick with my HD cards i already have, works alright for me at the moment anyway.

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  59. I'm so sick of all the nVidia fanboys, every nVidia card I've ever had has overheated and I've had to re-seat the heat sync or completely replace it with an aftermarket one.

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  61. not that bad, but i was expecting higher from such a late model card aye.

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