Friday, September 25, 2009

AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 5800 series

On AMD’s recent launch, the HD 5870 and HD 5850 had already been launched. The new cards now has DirectX 11, Eyefinity technology and also a lot more new features and a redefinition on gaming graphics.

 

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The new ATI HD 5870. Cooler design with a black body and red outline.

To my surprise, it uses the new ATI’s 40nm Cypress GPU. It’s a 1GB GDDR5, single cored but only 256-bit graphic card. The bandwidth of this graphic card is 153.6GB/s (as stated at bit-tech). The performance of this beast is already quite on par with the ATI HD 4870x2 but still losing to the dual-GPU nVidia GTX 295.

Here are some pictures I got from bit-tech

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The new ATI Eyefinity technology. Supports up to 3 TFTs on a single card with individual settings for landscape or portrait mode.

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Without the cooler.

The new ATI HD 5870 is relatively long, due to it’s crazy amount of transistors, which doubled the amount back at the HD 4800 series.

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The back of the graphic card.

Well if you’re observant, the new HD 5870’s cooler design is relatively matching with the original Batmobile back at the 60’s.

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Black body, red outline.

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Here’s a modification I found online. Indeed a matching one!

Also here’s a sneak preview of the ATI’s Eyefinity technology in conjunction with our famous TFT manufacturer, Samsung.

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Samsung’s ultra-thin bezel design. No name yet =D

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