AMD’s graphics brand ATI has just come out with their most technologically advanced and feature-rich GPUs, the Radeon HD 5800 series. The company’s first set of graphics cards to fully support Windows 7’s DirectX 11, the HD 5800 series boasts twice the power over the previous generation of GPUs with up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of processing power.
Two Radeon models will initially fall under the HD 5800 series–the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850—both featuring 1GB of GDDR5 memory, as well as ATI’s Eyefinity technology for supporting multi-display setups and ATI Stream technology that lets the GPU and CPU sync and work together on application processing (and not just graphics).
The higher-end HD 5870 is priced at $380 and features 1,600 cores, an 850MHz core clock, and a 1.2GHz memory clock, while the cheaper HD 5850 is priced at $260 with 1,440 cores, a 750MHz core clock, and 1GHz memory. Another model called the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6 Edition will come with 6 Mini DisplayPort connections for adding up to six displays to the setup.
Expect ATI’s various partners should be coming out with their own versions of the HD 5870 and 5850 soon.
Tags: AMD, ATI, Desktops, Graphics cards
