AMD Sells 6 Million ATI DX11 GPUs

AMD announced revenue for the first quarter of 2010 of $1.57 billion, net income of $257 million, or $0.35 per share, and operating income of $182 million. The company reported non-GAAP net income of $63 million, or $0.09 per share, and non-GAAP operating income of $130 million.

[champ21]

PC Gaming is going strong with AMD alone having sold 6million DX11 GPU's till date.

[ps3ftwin]

Dam 6 Million is a huge figure, considering thats from AMD only.

Its been about 6 months since the 5xxx series GPUs released. That would put an average sales of 1 milllion GPUs per month from AMD alone thats one par with any of todays leading consoles like the PS3 or the Xbox. If we add in Nvidia PC gaming looks to be going Solid.

Personally i have a 9800gtx runs all my games at 1080p but i really want to get on the DX11 bandwagon. Seriously considering to purchase a 5870 or 5850 GPU.

Please help lol.

[champ21]

Depends on your current rig. If its anything like a Core 2 duo or quad, any of these Gpus will be an overkill though it will leave you room for upgradability in the future in case you do decide to upgrade your rig.

5870 currently sells for about 400usd
5850 is at 300usd.

Personally i would pick the 5870 if you have the budget, its an awesome GPU. Upgrade rest of the rig when you have the funds anyways its the GPU that does most of the work at higher resolutions.

[Letros]

Like champ said, depending on your CPU, it may not be worth an upgrade, but 9800GTX -> Radeon 5850 or GTX 470 would be your best bet for a solid performance increase, I'd recommend the 5770 but it's not miles ahead of your current card, and the 5830 is just too expensive for it's performance. NVidia will have a "5830-5850" range card out this summer as well.

[t850]

Not Surprised, production of high end GPUs has been maxed out at ATI since october.

Infact Demand was so high that prices had to be increased after the initial launch price.

[JsonHenry]

I bought my 5870 the first week. Been loving it ever since!

[JsonHenry]

I went from an 8800GTS 640meg to an HD5870 on my AMD dual core rig and it made a HUGE difference. So please don't go telling people it is not worth their time if they only have a dual core rig because it does and DID make a huge difference.

However, I did buy a Phenom 965 quad along with a new MB and DDR3 ram and performance increased a decent amount over the dual core.

[ps3ftwin]

Thanks for all the repies guys.

My PC is about 4 years old now. Has a 775 Pin motherboard. After much research i decided i could upgrade the CPU to a

Q8300 thats 150usd Overclock this to 3.5ghz
5850 300usd Overclock to as high it will go.
4 gigs of ram currently present which i think should be enough.

So for 450usd this looks like a sweet upgrade to last afew more years.

[evrfighter]

DX11 GPU's means this is just the 5xxx series sales. dx10 Gpu's such as the 4xxx. I'm sure are still solid also.

within the last year I've noticed that there has been a positive change in pc gaming. The big game Publishers are praising it. Hardware makers are making record sales. PCGA has stated the pc gaming sales have grown. Even more and more articles about how cheap a really solid gaming pc can be.

It also seem that the gold rush to try and make easy money on consoles has peaked (IW has fallen, Guitar hero and Tony Hawk are dying, EA has started to once again started to cater to the pc crowd). The dust is beginning to settle and pc games that push the limits of technology and hardware seem to once again be on the horizon.

@ps3
bad company 2 is not partial to any quad core you have. a q8300 is still pretty good in my book if you oc it. I made a new pc on an athlon x4 635 @3.3ghz (A Q8300 OC'd would definately outdo this cpu) and a 5770 for my sister. I installed bc2 for kicks and it averaged 60-70fps @1080p on fraps benchmark. AAx1 though.

[ColdFire]

So PC gaming is dieing...? I think not :D

[ps3ftwin]

@evrfighter

If thats what a 5770 can manage, i am sold on the 5850 ;-)

Cant wait to get the upgrades done.

[ProjectVulcan]

Most of these sales are gonna be budget cards, and mostly- to OEMs (Dell, HP, Acer etc) This is however normal. There nothing like having a 'DX11 ready' sticker on the box to sell machines to uninformed consumers. Its one better than DX10 see? Lol. This also explains why Ati have sold so many, for the past few months being the only one shipping quantities of DX11 cards for OEMs they are in great demand, and it will continue until nvidia launch more mainstream DX11 parts.

However it seems the gaming class radeons like the 57/58 series has sold exceptionally well even without competition from nvidia for 6 months. Ati are eating into nvidia's enthusiast market share rapidly and most importantly, doing it while making a profit on their cards. Just look on the steam stats to see what the most popular enthusiast level cards are.
http://store.steampowered.c...

The radeon 48/57/58 have made a big impact and as the green figure shows, increasing steadily

[ALFAxD_CENTAURO]

''5870 currently sells for about 400usd
5850 is at 300usd''

Lol, the 5850 is overpriced, and is a little different to the 5770 and that cost like $160.

[PotNoodle]

I thought PC gaming was dead, yet the manufacturer with the smaller market share is selling 6 million GPUs?

[t850]

and that figure doesnt even count the DX10 gpus sold lol.

[JsonHenry]

Good point.

[mrv321]

Just because PC gamers don't whine about the console wars or what ever doesn't mean they aren't around. Please note WoW, that is at like 10 million and ONLY holds a 66% market share, that's a lot of people just plaing MMORPG's.

[Letros]

People playing only WoW don't buy DX11 GPU's.

[El_Colombiano]

People playing WOW don't only play WOW.

[Revvin]

I think my next graphics card will be an ATi. I've used nVidia since they first produced cards when Voodoo went the way of the dodo and I've only used an ATi card once briefly a few years ago. It seemed the drivers were not as solid as nVidia back then but they seem to be better now and offer more bang for buck. When the time is right I might even just stick to AMD for my CPU also for the same reason.

[Letros]

Their drivers are very respectable now, you still can't do individual game profiles through the control center like you can do with Nvidia, it was something that I missed when I went back to ATI again, but you quickly forget about it in a weeks time, when a card is so fast you just max everything out anyway.

[Revvin]

Yeah thats what I'm hearing from friends running them and lets not forget nVidia's last driver release that was recalled. Fortunately I am a multi platform gamer and a console exclusive came out on the Friday the day after I'd installed the nVidia drivers that made me decide to play that most of the night and I ended up just web browsing on my PC so put no strain on the GPU. The next morning I got a text from a friend warning me about it so I had the chance to revert to the older drivers. I've never bothered setting game profiles in all the time I've used nVidia so its not something I would miss.

[wissam]

PC hardware selling is really amazing.

[El_Colombiano]

No. Actually, it isn't.

[sid4gamerfreak]

Who said pc gaming was dying? Oh right, the console fanboys. Just enjoying one of ati brilliant dx 11 graphics right now...

[evrfighter]

As am I.

I should be enjoying eyefinity right now but I opted to buy an SSD drive instead of my 3rd monitor lol. But by this time next week. I will be the newest addition to the eyefinity club.

[darkequitus]

I skipped this GPU gen (I have a 4870). I went for 2 SSDs (60gb Vertex and Intel x25-v). What a difference those made! I will jump in when ATi releases their Southern Islands GPUs

[dirthurts]

Maybe some game developers will see these figures and realize they have some money to be made.
Imagine the total number of gaming capable pc's out there...
It's got to be either near or equal that of the current consoles.

[champ21]

Pc gaming alliance confirms there are currently 228milllion PC out there that are gaming capable thats more then all current gen consoles combined. Expected to hit 600million by 2013.

Last year alone High end enthusiast hardware sales were at 9billion usd (thats more then ps3,xbox software and hardware sales combined). This figure is expected to hit 12 billion in a 2-3years time.

Those of us who saw PC gaming emerge as a 3D gaming platform 15years back were in our teens. We didnt have much funds back then. Today all of those gamers are in their late 20's where we have much higher budgets to spend on our hobbies.

Remember gaming aside having a high end PC is a hobby itself.

[Letros]

lol I never thought of it that way champ but that's a good view on why PC gaming is exploding, I was sold on PC gaming when I got my first PC as a kid in 1995, now that I have money, it's a whole lot more fun =)

[Frodosmugins]

Can someone help me from Uk im not really good with tech side of gaming pc's.

My biggest problem with my last pc that I bought 5yrs ago was overheating and choppy graphics Im looking to buy a new one but I dont want to make same mistake rushing out and buying wrong pc.

To put it simply I want a desktop pc my budget is around £500 and lm not really bothered if the graphics are not top end.
Preformance and making sure my pc stays cool when I have long sessions.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks

[t850]

Generally when a PC is overheating its due to the heatsink not placed properly. This can be fixed with placing some thermal compound and reseating the heatsink.

If you intend to build a new PC then the following setup can be had for Sub 500GBP(if you dont want to be playing games on it then you could cut costs by getting a cheaper GPU).

http://www.tomshardware.co....

This setup will cost you about 400GBP if a cheaper gpu is used.

[evrfighter]

sounds like a rough first experience. To know about overheating and such means you're already ahead of the game. If you do try it again there are some windows sidebar gadgets you can download that will let you monitor your temps for both cpu and gpu
http://7mtjgq.bay.livefiles...

Of course I know my idle temp on my phenom seems a bit high but it doesn't push 55c even after a few hours of orthos and prime for quads. I probably should reseat my heatsink though just to be sure.

[fossilfern]

Sorry if this comes across as im trying to start some flamewar but Nvidia are eating their own words:

http://vr-zone.com/articles...

[t850]

that was before Nvidia had their own dx11 on the market. Since they were late obviously they will down play it.

Go ahead ask them today, you wont be getting the same reply.

[evrfighter]

Nvidia decided to stick to physx and their hopes of pc gaming turning a multi-plat fest where they could add physx to games and that's it.

I'm glad that decision came back to haunt them. Though I am disappointed that fermi didn't do as well as everyone predicted. Successful new launches creates price cuts. Price cuts = good for me.

I was really hoping to pickup a 2nd 5870 at a slashed price :(

[Rageanitus]

is dead to console fanboys lol

[iamgoatman]

I'll be upgrading to a 5850 in the next few months, so you can add another on top that number.

Although my 8800GT has done me well, it's time to try out some DX11.

[x800]

why are the console fanboys hiding now?

[Cyb3r]

Kinda pointless though considering there are hardly any games on the PC to justify buying one

[LostDjinn]

While that's great news, we need more dev's making DX11 games from the ground up. Tacking DX11 elements onto software/games built using as an earlier DX for the sake of an easy port to console is just plain lazy and cheap. I mean sure, older games work better with the new cards. It's the parallel compute stuff that hasn't been getting the attention it deserves.

I hate it when good hardware just sits there going to waste.

[Letros]

It's not wasted, you get a near 100% increase in framerates from the 4800 series, give it time, most games in development are not based directly on the DX11 code, Battlefield 3 will be an epic display of DX11 madness.

[El_Colombiano]

Battlefield 3...*drools*

THAT is going to be the 800lbs guerrilla in the room with all these BS console ports on the PC platform.

[Xfanboy]

love great PC news!!! Ati made my day!! & that was just the first quarter?? awsome.. 6M & 1 sold as soon as i buy my 5850!! now make games to push my card to the limit please..

[jy_mrnd]

PC gaming is a hobby to me too.I use to be a console gamer until i found out about PC gaming!I've been a PC gamer for about 3 years now.Why would anyone want to play a game on a console when you get a better experince on PC and cheaper games!The only people that would disagree are console fanboys.

[Xfanboy]

http://www.direct2drive.com...

[Toman85]

Im a hardcore consoles owner with PS3 Slim, 360 Elite, Nintendo Wii Black, Nintendo DS Lite, PSP, Xbox, Gameboy Advance SP and Gameboy Color

And this year I will get a hardcore pc in my collection!!

The specs for my beast is gonna be this:
Intel Core™ i7 Quad Processor i7-960 3.2GHZ
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz 6GB CL9
2x XFX Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 DX11 in Crossfire
Corsair HX 1000W PSU
Antec Twelve Hundred Big Tower
Hitachi Deskstar™ 7K1000.C 1TB
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

In Norway where I live, my pc costs around 3500dollars :P
So ATI will sell 2 more cards to me :)

[Letros]

Nice rig man, if you're going to spend that much I highly recommend an SSD(for your OS), Intel X-25 G2's are probably the best ones on the market right now, toss your OS and a few important games on it, and set up that 1 TB drive as a slave drive for all your media and older games you might want to play again.

This setup works perfect with Steam, I have Steam installed on both drives, when I get buy a new game I dload it to the SSD, when I'm done with it, drag and drop the game folder to the 7200rpm drive Steam directory and it fires up perfect from that Steam.

[El_Colombiano]

How much of a difference do SSDs make in gaming?

[champ21]

i have 2x intel 80 gig 2nd gen ssds in a raid. They are pretty dam fast.

Games load in instants. i would say about 50% faster then a HDD.

[Gago]

AMD Athlon II X4 630 Propus 2.8GHz
XFX Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 1GB
A-DATA 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333
ASUS M4A77TD AM3 AMD 770
Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 7200RPM
ASUS 24X DVD Burner
Antec BP550 Plus 550W
COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 Black Aluminum Bezel

[ALFAxD_CENTAURO]

How is it running the 5770? And what is the temperature you get when you play?

[El_Colombiano]

I have a Sapphire 5770 and it is GREAT. It idles at 36C and maxes at 85C when overclocked to 1000/1350

[ALFAxD_CENTAURO]

Why would you need to OC the GPU when is running ok for the games.

By the way, do you know what is the limit temperature for this GPU when is working in Games? 60°, 70°?

[champ21]

I have seen GPUs run fine as high as 90c.

I would get worried if it was going above that. The current Fermi is very hot, idles at 90c from what i have read. I would worried with one of those in my rig.

[El_Colombiano]

I overclock for the sake of overclocking. I enjoy my 1Ghz core clock haha. =)

I play my games at stock speeds though and it eats everything up at mass resolutions. I can only imagine what a 5870 can do.

[Gago]

it runs very well and surprisingly cool