AMD's ATI Cypress DirectX 11 due Friday

AMD's ATI Cypress DirectX 11 due Friday

Techtree News Staff, Sep 10, 2009 1742 hrs IST

ATI 'Cypress PRO' Radeon HD 5850, 'Cypress XT' Radeon HD 5870 expected soon

AMD's graphics unit ATI had demonstrated the prowess of its next generation DirectX 11 graphics card codenamed "Evergreen" at the QuakeCon 2009 convention. ATI is supposed to launch the new family of its Evergreen graphics card supporting DirectX 11 technology tomorrow at a press event. As Overclock3d.Net reports AMD informed that upcoming DirectX 11 Cypress will be branded as Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards. Card/Specific chip codenames have been assigned by AMD such as Cypress, Juniper, Redwood, Cedar and Hemlock.

According to Overclock3d.Net forums, of the two new DirectX 11 Cypress cards, Radeon HD 5850 is the Cypress PRO, while the Radeon HD 5870 is the Cypress XT. Packing 40nm process manufactured GPUs, these new cards will be slotted in the high-end offerings from ATI.

The key features of these Cypress cards are:

1GB GDDR5 memory
ATI Eyefinity technology with support for up to three displays
ATI Stream technology
Compliant with DirectX 11 and earlier revisions
Designed for DirectCompute 5.0 and OpenCL
Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
Supports OpenGL 3.1
ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
ATI Avivo HD video and display technology
Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay technology
HDMI, twin Dual Link-DVI, DisplayPort
PCI Express 2.0 support

The launch of these cards is expected tomorrow and would be available in late October along with the launch of Windows 7 operating system. While more information keeps oozing from the web, we await the official launch of DirectX 11 supporting cards by ATI tomorrow.