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ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series DirectX 11 Chips Arrive
Techtree News Staff, Sep 23, 2009 1552 hrs ISTATI to offer Radeon HD 5870 for $399 and HD 5850 for $299
AMD has finally unveiled the much anticipated DirectX 11 supporting 40nm ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards. These long awaited graphics cards are first DirectX 11 GPUs supporting ATI's Eyefinity (multi-monitor) technology, OpenCL and DirectCompute 11. As reported earlier, the ATI Cypress family DirectX 11 cards are announced, though we slipped over the real date.
Industry sources deserve a pat on their back for sharing the correct date and information about ATI 'Juniper' Radeon HD 5770 and HD 5750 graphics cards due next month.
ATI boasts 2.72 TeraFLOPS for processing power from these new 40nm process GPU and GDDR5 memory standard. With Windows 7 due next month, ATI promises smoother HD gaming with DirectX 11 support integrated.
AMD plans initial release of two Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards: Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850. Each card will have 1GB GDDR5 memory. As pointed out earlier, Radeon HD 5870 is codenamed as Cypress XT and Radeon HD 5850 is codenamed as Cypress PRO.
ATI Radeon HD 5870 has 1600 stream processors with graphics engine clocked at 850MHz and 1GB GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.2GHz. Gamers can get up to 153.6GB/sec memory bandwidth over 256-bit memory bus interface. Radeon packs 1440 stream processors with graphics core clocked at 725MHz and 1GB GDDR5 memory clocked at 1GHz. Up to 128GB/sec memory bandwidth can be obtained with 256-bit memory bus interface.
Both graphics card support ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology that can handle three displays. Also, support for ATI Stream technology to accelerate computing by making GPU work in harmony with CPU arrives. Both cards would be OpenCL 1.0 complaint, will have DirectCompute 11 support, and other video transcoding-upscaling accelerating functions. OpenGL 3.2 support will be enabled with drivers expected to release sometime in 2010.
New Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards obviously supports dual, triple and quad ATI CrossFireX configuration. ATI packs twin dual-link DVI port with HDCP, DisplayPort, HDMI and VGA port as several options for video output. ATI PowerPlay technology offers dynamic power management.
AMD has priced the high-end Radeon HD 5870 graphics card at Rs. 24,999, while the Radeon HD 5850 is priced at Rs. 16,999. Newegg.com already listed Asus EAH5870 graphics card for $379 (Rs. 18,200 approx.).
ATI rival Nvidia is now expected to release DirectX 11 supporting hardware anytime soon. Nvidia, at the Deutsche Bank Securities Technology Conference last week, indicated that hyping DirectX 11 API for PC gaming won't be the sole factor that would drive sales.
Industry sources deserve a pat on their back for sharing the correct date and information about ATI 'Juniper' Radeon HD 5770 and HD 5750 graphics cards due next month.
ATI boasts 2.72 TeraFLOPS for processing power from these new 40nm process GPU and GDDR5 memory standard. With Windows 7 due next month, ATI promises smoother HD gaming with DirectX 11 support integrated.
AMD plans initial release of two Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards: Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850. Each card will have 1GB GDDR5 memory. As pointed out earlier, Radeon HD 5870 is codenamed as Cypress XT and Radeon HD 5850 is codenamed as Cypress PRO.
ATI Radeon HD 5870 has 1600 stream processors with graphics engine clocked at 850MHz and 1GB GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.2GHz. Gamers can get up to 153.6GB/sec memory bandwidth over 256-bit memory bus interface. Radeon packs 1440 stream processors with graphics core clocked at 725MHz and 1GB GDDR5 memory clocked at 1GHz. Up to 128GB/sec memory bandwidth can be obtained with 256-bit memory bus interface.
Both graphics card support ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology that can handle three displays. Also, support for ATI Stream technology to accelerate computing by making GPU work in harmony with CPU arrives. Both cards would be OpenCL 1.0 complaint, will have DirectCompute 11 support, and other video transcoding-upscaling accelerating functions. OpenGL 3.2 support will be enabled with drivers expected to release sometime in 2010.
New Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards obviously supports dual, triple and quad ATI CrossFireX configuration. ATI packs twin dual-link DVI port with HDCP, DisplayPort, HDMI and VGA port as several options for video output. ATI PowerPlay technology offers dynamic power management.
AMD has priced the high-end Radeon HD 5870 graphics card at Rs. 24,999, while the Radeon HD 5850 is priced at Rs. 16,999. Newegg.com already listed Asus EAH5870 graphics card for $379 (Rs. 18,200 approx.).
ATI rival Nvidia is now expected to release DirectX 11 supporting hardware anytime soon. Nvidia, at the Deutsche Bank Securities Technology Conference last week, indicated that hyping DirectX 11 API for PC gaming won't be the sole factor that would drive sales.
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