Radeon HD 5800 series could be 60% faster

Well, I guess we are closing in on the launch of DX11 class cards from ATI. And rumors start to pop up on the web. Some of them are pulled directly out of the *** of some websites in order to get some extra pageviews. This one, however, might be true.

It is now rumored that compared to the Radeon 4850 (RV770) the Radeon 5850 (Cypress — RV870 ) will be roughly 1.6 times faster than the older chip. Looks like the new graphics cards will also supports a new anisotropic filtering method .

Of course that’s the 5850 part, I do hope for ATI that there will be a 5870 part as well and whoops oh gosh would this be its feature set:

* 1GB GDDR5 memory
* ATI Eyefinity technology with support for up to three displays
* ATI Stream technology,
* Designed for DirectCompute 5.0 and OpenCL
* Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
* Compliant with DirectX® 11 and earlier revisions
* Supports OpenGL 3.1
* ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance6
* ATI Avivo™ HD video and display technology
* Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology
* DL-DVI, DL-DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI
* PCI Express® 2.0 support

Anyway, considering the 4850 and 4870 both have the same GPU it would make sense that a 5870 model would be another 20% faster over the 5850. And that would make a 5870 nearly twice as fast as as the 4870.

Aah, the complex and never-ending series conspiracy theories weeks before launch time …