The Radeon HD 5970: Completing AMD's Takeover of the High End GPU Market
by Ryan Smith on November 18, 2009 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Dawn of War II
Dawn of War II is the other game that saw some significant driver improvements under Crossfire mode. As a result performance is up for all of our 5000 series cards in CF mode, and it gets the 5000 series out of the CF disadvantage that we saw with the 5800 series launch.
The CF performance improvement proves to be somewhat counterproductive here though, as the 5850CF with these new drivers now slightly outperforms the 5970, leaving the 5970 back by around 2%. And yes, we know that the 5850CF is outperforming the 5870CF. That's what we really get - there are driver bugs to solve methinks.
Meanwhile overclocking the 5970 is good for another 9%, and the stock 5970 is 37% faster than the GTX 295.
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Ben90 - Thursday, November 19, 2009 - link
I doubt 30" @ 120 will be here soon. 1920x1200 @ 120fps is the theoretical limit of a dual link DVI. 2560x1600 @ 120 would require a quad link DVI, or a twin HDMI, or a twin DP connection. And it would still have to be a TN panel as of 2009, because IPS just isnt fast enough for 120 yettdktank59 - Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - link
get 3 independent stands.Could you imagine 90" of screen! that would just be sick!
anyways need to stop drooling lol...
Price is just ridiculous...
Figure 1.2k for each monitor
1200 for the cards
thats $4800 lol
bob4432 - Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - link
build your own stand - look at www.8020.net for everything you would need for such a project :)Visual - Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - link
for 90" screen you would need 3x3=9 screens.3 30" screens in portrait mode give you about a 54 inch diagonal