ATI Lineup Refresh Second Half This Year?

[WC Annihilus]

"AMD has given word that they could be refreshing their graphics card lineup later this year."

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[TWeaKoR]

Does this mean that those buying current HD5000 series cards will be left with obsolete hardware sooner rather than later? Been looking at a 5850 recently but wondering now if it's worth waiting.

Sounds like AMD want to kick Nvidia when they're down. With Fermi still nowhere in sight and no great anticipation of huge performance leaps, AMD probably want to make sure they'll be the top dog for a good while.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Does this mean that those buying current HD5000 series cards will be left with obsolete hardware sooner rather than later? Been looking at a 5850 recently but wondering now if it's worth waiting.

Sounds like AMD want to kick Nvidia when they're down. With Fermi still nowhere in sight and no great anticipation of huge performance leaps, AMD probably want to make sure they'll be the top dog for a good while.

Youll be waiting for ever if you do that dude. manus updaye the range to keep the sales high, its general practice.

IMHO get a gpu asap and enjoy it

 

[killablade]

I guess they are forced to do this after the release of Fermi since Fermi cards will probably be faster and AMD has to keep up

 

[TWeaKoR]

Youll be waiting for ever if you do that dude. manus updaye the range to keep the sales high, its general practice.

IMHO get a gpu asap and enjoy it

Ya know what you mean mate. Tbh I think the 5850 is good enough value that I'll be happy with it for a while Now I just need some money...

 

[Hemicuda]

Too early for the 28nm process I would have thought in that timescale. New architecture and 28nm maybe Q1 2011 , but I think the thing out of AMD will be the HD 5xxx refresh with faster GDDR5 (6Gb/sec maybe?) and a bump in core frequency. ATI bring out the HD 5890 and tell AIB's that they can release non-reference HD 5870 so long as they don't reach the 5890 performance level.

The HD 5970 maybe will be the one worth looking at and if AMD blink first and launch the re-issue with 2 x 8 pin PCIe connectors. The ATX 300watt limit has already been breached by non-reference cards (Asus Mars and MSI HD 5870 Lightning PCB has provision for 2x8 in it's design)and any significant performance increase will surely mean 2x8pin (375watt).

 

[Nocutius]

Any improvement of these already good cards is welcome. We'll have to wait for some actual fermi benchmarks to see how much faster it will be, then we can easier decide on what to buy.

I've been holding off my purchase for a while now, in retrospective i should have just bought a 5850 at launch, considering that the price then was actually lower than now.