Radeon HD5870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition)

[Xenon]

      It's about time we reminded our readers of our RadeonXT.XenonWeb.Us portal where we have displayed the best video cards selected for digital artists. The latest addition in the news is the Radeon HD5870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) from SAPPhIRE. It brings lots of eye-candy goodies, physics processing enhanced, support for DirectX 11 (the DirectX version of Windows 7) and lots of raw graphics processing power. Have a look at the tech-specs below after you have watched the video above.

Product Description:

- I/O Output: Dual DL-DVI-I+DP+HDMI, Triple Display Support
- Core Clock: 850 MHz
- Memory Clock: Effective 4800 MHz
- PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
- 1024MB /256bit GDDR5 memory interface
- Dual Slot Cooler with Auto Fan Control, 2 Ball Bearing
- On-board HDMI, supports HDMI 1.3 with High Bitrate Audio
- On-board DisplayPort
- Dirt2 Coupon In the Box
- Battlestation Pacific In the Box

Generic 5800 Series Features:

- Microsoft DirectX® 11 Support
- ATI Eyefinity Technology
- ATI Stream Technology
- Designed for DirectCompute 5.0 and OpenCL
- Accelerate Video Transcoding
- 40 nm Building Process Technology GPU
- Advanced GDDR5 Memory Technology
- 2nd Generation TeraScale Engine
- Microsoft Windows 7® Support
- ATI CrossFireX™ Technology
- Enhanced Anisotropic Filtering
- Accelerated Video Transcoding
- Display Flexibility, Supports DL-DVI, DP, HDMI and D-Sub
- HDMI 1.3
- Dolby® TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio™ Support
- ATI PowerPlay™ Technology8 – Enhanced Support for GDDR5 memory - ATI Avivo™
- Technology Enhanced Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2)
- Supports OpenGL 3.1

[Vlad Nechita]

cool, how much does it cost?

[Xenon]

Here's a version with 2Gb of DDR 5 RAM at $500: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-888-_-Product

or a 5970 with 2Gb of DDR 5 RAM at $689 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-887-_-Product

[Vlad Nechita]

omg with that money and buy my 2 Dacians, one green and one yellow