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    Image of Evangelion Evangelion
    11/18/09

    In reply to ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World's Fastest Graphics Card
    I came.
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    Image of robinandtami robinandtami
    11/18/09

    In reply to ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World's Fastest Graphics Card
    Forget gaming... can it bitstream 7.1 lossless audio?
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    Image of Odin Odin
    11/18/09

    In reply to ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World's Fastest Graphics Card
    DX11? Christ, we're barely moving on to DX10 as it is. Most games are still DX9 compatible.

    I'm still looking for a reasonable graphics card for my new rig. Something powerful enough to be viable right away and with enough staying power that I won't have to replace it for a while... and something £200 or less.

    Yeeeeah I'm asking a lot there aren't I? #atiradeonhd5970
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    Image of yuriythebest3 yuriythebest3
    11/18/09

    @Odin: you could get a 4870 or 5870 or something in between #atiradeonhd5970
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    Image of Odin Odin
    11/18/09

    @yuriythebest3:
    I was thinking a GTXsomething or other. I generally lean towards nVidia cards.
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    11/18/09

    @Odin: If you like ATI, you could pick up a Radeon HD 4890 for quite a bit less, and it's the fastest card ATI made from it's last-generation line (the 4800 series). Alternatively, check on prices for the HD 5850 cards.

    I'm not sure about NVidia's line - check TomsHardware.
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    Image of jgrnt1 jgrnt1
    11/18/09

    @Odin: Take a look at the 5770 or 5750. I just picked up a 5770 for $170. At current exchange rates, you could get two 5770's for £200. I've also been an Nvidia user forever, but the reviews of the Radeon 5000's are hard to ignore.
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment Edited by jgrnt1 at 11/18/09 10:49 AM jgrnt1 was starred jgrnt1 was unstarred
    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/18/09

    In reply to ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World's Fastest Graphics Card
    That costs more than my entire computer..
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    11/18/09

    In reply to ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World's Fastest Graphics Card
    Wait.. That's no moon... #atiradeonhd5970
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    Image of Calzo Calzo
    11/18/09

    In reply to ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World's Fastest Graphics Card

    yeah but it probably takes #atiradeonhd5970
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    11/18/09

    In reply to ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World's Fastest Graphics Card
    NVidia's upcoming Fermi-based cards had better be some seriously bad-assed hardware if they don't want their clocks cleaned for the next year.

    Granted, this is basically two 5870 cards in crossfire, but glued to one board - but the rendering power of the gods in a single pci-x slot? Priceless (okay, actually $600, but still). Meanwhile my HD 4870 seems so... retro :-( #atiradeonhd5970
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/18/09

    @Kirkaiya: Don't forget the fact that you can Crossfire the beast too, so you could have, in essence, four 5870s in Crossfire.
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    11/18/09

    In reply to ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World's Fastest Graphics Card
    Sweet. Nvidia, time to show your cards plz. #atiradeonhd5970
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    Image of Gregory Carvlin Gregory Carvlin
    10/01/09

    In reply to Nvidia Fermi Next-Gen Graphics Architecture Has 512 Cores for Radioactively Melting Faces
    But what will it run now that it can run crysis?
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    Ghede promoted this comment Edited by Gregory Carvlin at 10/01/09 2:59 AM Gregory Carvlin was starred Gregory Carvlin was unstarred
    Image of Ghede Ghede
    10/01/09

    @Gregory Carvlin: Will it run fifteen instances of crysis?
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    Image of mikecoscia mikecoscia
    09/30/09

    In reply to Nvidia Fermi Next-Gen Graphics Architecture Has 512 Cores for Radioactively Melting Faces
    Finally a GPU to go along nicely with my i7
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    Image of nicolasgoddone nicolasgoddone
    09/30/09

    In reply to Nvidia Fermi Next-Gen Graphics Architecture Has 512 Cores for Radioactively Melting Faces
    Actually they don't need to explain the name since Enrico Fermi actually developed the 1st nuclear reactor :S thats ... [en.wikipedia.org]
    there's the little poodle for ya
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    Image of Nick Nick
    09/30/09

    In reply to Nvidia Fermi Next-Gen Graphics Architecture Has 512 Cores for Radioactively Melting Faces
    alright, to all you dorks that keep calling matt out and seem to be new to the interwebs -- look at the damn article title before *gasp* saying matt doesn't know who fermi is. it's not just a coincidence. friggin' 'tards.
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    Image of CommentingpointlesslyisMeh CommentingpointlesslyisMeh
    09/30/09

    In reply to Nvidia Fermi Next-Gen Graphics Architecture Has 512 Cores for Radioactively Melting Faces
    So...DirectX11 or no?
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    Image of Grinning Kestrel Grinning Kestrel
    09/30/09

    @CommentingpointlesslyisMeh: Yes.
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    Image of Kakkoii Kakkoii
    09/30/09

    @CommentingpointlesslyisMeh:

    GT300Runs:
    DX11, DirectCompute, OpenCL, OpenGL, CUDA, C code, C++ code and FORTRAN code. It can basically do what your CPU does now, but a whole lot freaking better. It won't be hard at all for someone to port their windows applications to run on Nvidia's GPU's now.
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    Image of hfutrell hfutrell
    09/30/09

    @Kakkoii: "It can basically do what your CPU does now, but a whole lot freaking better. It won't be hard at all for someone to port their windows applications to run on Nvidia's GPU's now"

    I hate to poop your party, but GPUs are not just super awesome CPUs.
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    Image of Kakkoii Kakkoii
    10/01/09

    @hfutrell: And I love to poop on your party, because I never said they were. I said this new one is. Nvidia has configured their cores to now finally do C and C++ operations without need for rewriting your whole code. Read the damn article.
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    Image of hfutrell hfutrell
    10/22/09

    @Kakkoii: "It can basically do what your CPU does now, but a whole lot freaking better" Read your own comment instead.

    I can name you quite a few things your CPU can do better than Fermi will: branching, recursion, or any task that can't be parallelized into thousands of threads. The fact that Fermi can run C++ code does not imply it will do it better than the CPU for a given task. #nvidiafermi
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    Image of Nick Nick
    09/30/09

    In reply to Nvidia Fermi Next-Gen Graphics Architecture Has 512 Cores for Radioactively Melting Faces
    matt, what disappointements me about this article is the absence of the word teraflop. why didn't you say teraflop?
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/30/09

    @Nick: "Here. Here's the graphics card you'll need for your machine."
    "How many teraflops does it have?"
    "....."
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    Image of Kakkoii Kakkoii
    09/30/09

    @Nick: Because we can't know how many Teraflops it's capable of until we know that clock rate of the GPU and Memory.

    But if I had to guess, it's at least 4 Teraflops+
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    Image of Xndingo Xndingo
    09/30/09

    In reply to Nvidia Fermi Next-Gen Graphics Architecture Has 512 Cores for Radioactively Melting Faces
    i can finally rub everything about the new nvidia gpu specs to my friend's face!he kept blubing about how ati is better cause he has an ati card and that they have gddr5 and it's double,triple,quadzillion pumped!hell yeah!
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    09/30/09

    @Xndingo: Just make sure you guys mop up the floor when you're done with your contest.
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