ATI Cypress Gaming Performance Analysis

Monday 22nd February 2010, 01:43:00 PM, written by Rys

With Cypress powering more than a handful of recent Radeon SKUs these days, including those that dominate the performance landscape, we figured it prudent to finally release our look at gaming performance on the chip before the competition arrived.  Taking in DX11 and an interesting bottleneck analysis, Alex was at the helm for this one.

The review and analysis has a look at the upcoming 10.3 Catalyst release, attempts to find Cypress's most pressing performance limitation in current configurations, and even has an in-depth look at why Heaven tessellation performance isn't stellar on the hardware.

Check out the full look in our ATI Cypress Gaming Performance Analysis
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ati ± cypress, radeon, hd, 5870, tessellation, dx11


Latest Thread Comments (594 total)
Posted by eastmen on Thursday, 08-Jul-10 19:36:09 UTC
Quoting Dave Baumann
Even better now (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600030349%20600007320%20600035072%204017&IsNodeId=1&name=%24100%20-%20%24200)...
Look like its finally getting down to acceptable prices. Though I hope the 5850 strats dropping.

Posted by neliz on Thursday, 08-Jul-10 20:44:30 UTC
Quoting eastmen
Look like its finally getting down to acceptable prices. Though I hope the 5850 strats dropping.
Wouldn't that require the GTX470 to start dropping in price first?..

Posted by Kaotik on Thursday, 08-Jul-10 21:24:55 UTC
Quoting neliz
Wouldn't that require the GTX470 to start dropping in price first?..
Not necessarily, enough pricegap downwards could do the trick, too.

Posted by fbuffer on Thursday, 08-Jul-10 22:17:38 UTC
Quoting Dave Baumann
Even better now (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600030349%20600007320%20600035072%204017&IsNodeId=1&name=%24100%20-%20%24200)...
Not really .. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600030349%20600007320%20600007612&IsNodeId=1&name=Radeon%20HD%205830) no.. out of 10 models 3 are sub $200, one is an open box.. others range up to $270.

Posted by eastmen on Friday, 09-Jul-10 05:26:46 UTC
Quoting neliz
Wouldn't that require the GTX470 to start dropping in price first?..
gtx 460 is coming and from what semiaccurate is claming its a little faster than the 5830. So if its at $200 also the 5830 has to drop. I'm sure to compete the 5850 would drop. In fact it be in ati's best interest to bring the 5850 back down to $270ish to squeeze the gtx 460

Posted by neliz on Friday, 09-Jul-10 07:51:12 UTC
I think the only products affected are the HD5830 and GTX465.. it is some way off affecting GTX470/HD5850.

Posted by Silent_Buddha on Friday, 09-Jul-10 08:16:48 UTC
Quoting eastmen
gtx 460 is coming and from what semiaccurate is claming its a little faster than the 5830. So if its at $200 also the 5830 has to drop. I'm sure to compete the 5850 would drop. In fact it be in ati's best interest to bring the 5850 back down to $270ish to squeeze the gtx 460
That'll only make sense if demand drops low enough that supply becomes greater than demand.

Otherwise, no reason to drop prices if you still sell everything you make. As I said in another thread, I don't think either Nvidia or ATI want to get into another cutthroat price war.

We'll have to wait and see how many Nvidia can make and then see if it impacts ATI sales in anyway. If prices drop for ATI products that'll be a good indication that ATI is feeling the effects. Otherwise, it's entirely possible there's enough demand to buy everything Nvidia and ATI can produce. In which case nothing changes.

Regards,
SB

Posted by Tchock on Friday, 09-Jul-10 08:59:13 UTC
Quoting Dave Baumann
Even better now (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600030349%20600007320%20600035072%204017&IsNodeId=1&name=%24100%20-%20%24200)...
We'd really appreciate if some love is sent this way (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600030349%20600007320%20600035069&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Order=PRICE&PageSize=20)As for demand/supply, I'm not too sure that the 5850 is actually that much of a hot seller, rather more of an artificial inventory management?

Posted by Squilliam on Friday, 09-Jul-10 09:08:15 UTC
Quoting Dave Baumann
Even better now (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600030349%20600007320%20600035072%204017&IsNodeId=1&name=%24100%20-%20%24200)...
It's prices like THESE (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600007320%20600007602&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=20) which really must tear you up inside. :razz:

Posted by Mendel on Friday, 09-Jul-10 21:35:06 UTC
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