ATI intorduces the new HD 5870 today

Highlights:

The HD 5870 is capable of delivering up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of computing
power.
DirectX 11 support.
Will drive 3 monitors off one 'consumer' board. 6 with the Eyefinity
version, 8192 x 8192 resolution across multiple monitors.
Game play across multiple monitors is now easily setup in Catalyst Control
Center.

See an article at Tom's Hardware he
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...5870,2422.html Lots of
pictures to see.

And a short one at TG Daily he
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/44064/135/

More versions coming in time.

William

In article ,
William wrote:
Highlights:

The HD 5870 is capable of delivering up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of computing
power.

But still only a gigabyte of memory.

OK, the GPGPU-ish job I want to do (GNFS linear algebra: find a kernel
vector for a 30M*30M matrix with ~70 non-zero entries per row, a
simple matter of about a million multiplies of the 30M*30M matrix by a
30M*64-bit vector) is a somewhat esoteric one, but it would be really
handy to have 16G on the graphics card even if that had to be slower
than the blazing-in-all-senses RAM on current machines.

Or to be able to read over PCIe from main memory; I don't know if
ATI cards nowadays support this for buffers of 4G. I know the nVidia
cards are tied to 32-bit addressing to the point that a 16G Tesla
presents as four 3.75G cards ...

Tom

Thomas Womack wrote:
In article ,
William wrote:
Highlights:

The HD 5870 is capable of delivering up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of computing
power.

But still only a gigabyte of memory.

OK, the GPGPU-ish job I want to do (GNFS linear algebra: find a kernel
vector for a 30M*30M matrix with ~70 non-zero entries per row, a
simple matter of about a million multiplies of the 30M*30M matrix by a
30M*64-bit vector) is a somewhat esoteric one, but it would be really
handy to have 16G on the graphics card even if that had to be slower
than the blazing-in-all-senses RAM on current machines.

Or to be able to read over PCIe from main memory; I don't know if
ATI cards nowadays support this for buffers of 4G. I know the nVidia
cards are tied to 32-bit addressing to the point that a 16G Tesla
presents as four 3.75G cards ...

Tom

If you look for the swiss-army-knife of brute-force ask your next friendly
Deep-Thought agent. I suppose after the last job they run pretty idle now.

Ciao, pun intended
Niels

This sure didn't take long...
http://www.enet.com.cn/videocard/img...31/6757690.jpg

It appears to be a massive card, with the PCIe edge connector for scale.

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"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"William" wrote in message
...
Highlights:

The HD 5870 is capable of delivering up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of computing
power.
DirectX 11 support.
Will drive 3 monitors off one 'consumer' board. 6 with the Eyefinity
version, 8192 x 8192 resolution across multiple monitors.
Game play across multiple monitors is now easily setup in Catalyst Control
Center.

See an article at Tom's Hardware he
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...5870,2422.html Lots of
pictures to see.

And a short one at TG Daily he
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/44064/135/

More versions coming in time.

William

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:33:49 -0400, "First of One"
wrote:

This sure didn't take long...
http://www.enet.com.cn/videocard/img...31/6757690.jpg

It appears to be a massive card, with the PCIe edge connector for scale.

Jesus!...It's a big as a keyboard.

--
The Zero ST

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:38:01 +0100, Craig Coope
wrote:

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:33:49 -0400, "First of One"
wrote:

This sure didn't take long...
http://www.enet.com.cn/videocard/img...31/6757690.jpg

It appears to be a massive card, with the PCIe edge connector for scale.

Jesus!...It's a* big as a keyboard.

Huh?....as*

--
The Zero ST

HardOCP has an in depth review up on the 5870, see it he
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2009/...eo_card_review.
They took it all apart and gave us a look.

They have your picture too:
http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?im...MV8xX 2wuanBn
It finally sunk in that that card is a 5870x2. So what - that's over 4
TeraFLOPS of computing power now? Unbelievable.

The end of the year is going to be decision time for me. Everything I want
is going to cost around $2,000. Upgrade my computer or upgrade my camera.
Or set on the money and see which way the economy goes. I don't like what I
see coming this way.

William


"First of One" wrote in message
...
This sure didn't take long...
http://www.enet.com.cn/videocard/img...31/6757690.jpg

It appears to be a massive card, with the PCIe edge connector for scale.

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"William" wrote in message
...
Highlights:

The HD 5870 is capable of delivering up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of computing
power.
DirectX 11 support.
Will drive 3 monitors off one 'consumer' board. 6 with the Eyefinity
version, 8192 x 8192 resolution across multiple monitors.
Game play across multiple monitors is now easily setup in Catalyst
Control Center.

See an article at Tom's Hardware he
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...5870,2422.html Lots of
pictures to see.

And a short one at TG Daily he
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/44064/135/

More versions coming in time.

William