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ATI Radeon™ HD 5870

 

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  1. HotHardware

    HotHardware
    14 October 2009

    Every card we looked at in this article will cost you about $479 - $499. Yes, the asking price is steep but that's the norm for a high end product, and especially true when we're talking about premium graphics cards. Read more

    • Dominating Performance, Superior Overclocking Ability, Useful OC Software, Top-Shelf Performance, Some Additional Overclocking Ability
    • Relatively Expensive, Relatively Expensive

  2. Legion Hardware

    Legion Hardware
    21 September 2009

    The new ATI Radeon HD 5870 is a seriously impressive graphics card, delivering a level of performance and efficiency previous unseen from a single-GPU graphics card. Read more

  3. TechRadar UK

    TechRadar UK
    9.0/10
    9 October 2009

    It's a little surprising to find, therefore, that the GPU that forms the basis of the new Radeon HD 5870 is significantly larger than the Radeon HD4870 , despite the advantage of a process shrink from 55nm to 40nm Read more

    • The fastest graphics card ever, Fantastic performance and image quality, Relatively modest power consumption
    • Disappointingly pricey

  4. Tech2

    4 October 2009

    A MD/ATI’s next-gen Radeon HD 5870 graphics card is here, and it’s a blockbuster. Its architecture is a refinement of the 4xxx series, and is manufactured using the 40nm process that AMD demonstrated it had mastered with... Read more

  5. PC Pro

    PC Pro
    8.3/10
    23 September 2009

    A stunningly powerful card that tops even the best dual-GPU monsters of ATI's last generation Read more

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ATI Radeon™ HD 5870

The ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 is touted as the world’s first graphics card to fully support Microsoft DirectX® 11 and unit will ship with Microsoft Windows® 7 operating system. Featuring up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of compute power, the ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 delivers optimal performance with its 1 GB GDDR5 memory, supports ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology, ATI Stream technology, and full support of Microsoft DirectX® 11.

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ATI Radeon™ HD 5870

The ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 is touted as the world’s first graphics card to fully support Microsoft DirectX® 11 and unit will ship with Microsoft Windows® 7 operating system. Featuring up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of compute power, the ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 delivers optimal performance with its 1 GB GDDR5 memory, supports ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology, ATI Stream technology, and full support of Microsoft DirectX® 11.

Features

The ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 supports optimal HD gaming performance and DirectX® 11 specifications, delivering up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of compute power in a single card. The card also supports DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL titles in single card configurations or multi-card configurations using ATI CrossFireX™ technology. The 5870 allows gamers to enjoy new DirectX 11 games – including the forthcoming DiRT™2 from Codemasters, and Aliens vs. Predator™ from Rebellion, and updated version of The Lord of the Rings Online™ and Dungeons and Dragons Online® Eberron Unlimited™ from Turbine. It features the 6th generation evolved AMD tessellation technology, 3rd generation evolved GDDR5 support, 2nd generation evolved 40nm process technology, and a feature-rich compute shader that is geared towards delivering optimal gaming experience. The DirectX 11 API was developed on AMD graphics hardware and represents the cornerstone of DirectX 11 gaming. The optimization for ATI Radeon graphics cards, in combination with monthly ATI Catalyst™ driver releases, help provide users with a stable performance experience for the latest games. Other features on the 5870 include ATI Stream technology acceleration, (supporting DirectCompute 11, DirectX 11 and OpenCL); ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology (up to three displays) or multi-monitor gaming at up to 12 x full HD resolution; and is supported by a dozen add-in-board companies, including ASUS, Club 3D, Diamond Multimedia, Force3D, GIGABYTE, HIS (Hightech Information Systems), MSI, Multimedia, PowerColor, SAPPHIRE Technology, VisionTek and XFX.

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