Mi sa konvencionalnim metodama i nedostatkom vremena nismo uspjeli ukrotiti ovu zvijer, ona zahtjeva puno više megapixela kako bi se barem malo oznojila. Čim nabavimo naš primjerak pokušati ćemo ju ponovno napasti svime što imamo u nadi da će barem malo pokleknuti. Također sa nestrpljenjem očekujemo prve DX11 naslove, kada ćemo saznati njene prave vrijednosti. Sjećamo se koliko je muke bilo sa prvim DX10 hardverom i igrama a nekako vjerujemo (ili se ipak samo nadamo) da tako neće biti i ovaj puta.

Ukoliko se pitate što je sljedeće za očekivati od AMD-a, to je prvenstveno HD5850 model koji će imati 1440 stream procesora, kucati na 725MHz i imati snagu od 2.09TeraFLOPS-a. 1GB memorije će kucati na 1000MHz (4Gbps), a maksimalna potrošnja će iznositi 170W. Ovaj model će podržavati mksimalno 3 monitora rezolucije 2560x1600. Sve to će dolaziti sa cijenom od oko 300USD. Zatim dolazi već spomenuta HD5870 Eyefinity⁶ Edition kartica sa šest DisplayPortova. Do kraja ove godine ćemo vidjeti i "Hemlock", odnosno "Juniper" izvedbe Cypressa, a početkom iduće i "Redwood" te "Cedar" izvedbe "Junipera". Ukoliko ste zbunjeni svim ovim nazivaima, pojasniti ćemo ih. Hemlock je kodno ime za HD5870X2 karticu, Juniper za nasljednika mainstream HD47xx kartica (HD5770 i HD5750), dok su Redwood i Cedar (RV830 i RV810) namijenjeni nižem mainstreamu i entry-level dijelu tržišta. Odgovor Nvidije se čeka a jedno je sigurno, pred nama je vrlo zanimljiva kasna jesen i zima.

Game has really changed. AMD took a well known road, and simply doubled everything to make a powerful single-chip card. Our tests have shown that 24" screen is not enough to slow down this card. Although its performance is lower than HD4870X2, we believe that situation would be different on 30" screen. So, with great performance, fixed Anisotropic, minimal performance drop when using 8x AA, tweaked Power Play and Eyefinity, one wonders does this card have any faults. Of course it does, energy consumption in peak has once more gone up, dimensions also (it is a beast for a single-chip card), performance are not significantly better than with GTX285, but somehow we are ready to put all that aside. AMD has demonstrated power; they showed Nvidia that they mean business. All they have to do now is capitalize it. With soon to be announced Windows 7, a nice bunch of upcoming DX11 games, (S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:Call of Pripyat, DiRT2, Lord of the RingsOnline, Aliens vs. Predator etc.), and playing older ones in up to 7680x3200 resolution they just might pull it off. And all that for 400USD.

With our conventional methods, and lack of time haven’t been able to chasten this beast, it needs a lot more megapixels to break a sweat. As soon as we get out own sample, we will hit it with everything we got, and hope to bring it to its knees. Also, we are anxious to see first DX11 games to see it cope on its natural territory. We hope it will be a lot less messy this time (remember the first DX10 games?)

So, what’s next from AMD? First up is HD5850 model, which will run on 725MHz for the GPU and 1000MHz (4Gbps) for the 1GB memory. Stream processors will drop down to 1440, and power consumption to 170W. HD5850 will support a maximum of 3 30" screens. Price tag? 300USD. Then they will show HD5870 Eyefinity6 Edition with 6 Display Ports. Till the end of the year we will see Hemlock, or HD5870X2, then Juniper (5770, 5750), and its derivates Redwood and Cedar (RV830 and RV810) should come early next year. It will most certainly be an interesting late fall/winter. Nvidia, what are you up to?

	ATI Radeon HD5870