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Prepare to experience a riveting high-definition gaming experience with ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 graphics processors.1 Expand your visual real estate across up to three displays and get lost in the action with revolutionary ATI Eyefinity Technology.2 Using ATI Stream technology, accelerate even the most demanding applications and do more than ever with your PC.3 The first to deliver full support for Microsoft DirectX® 11, these GPUs enable rich, realistic visuals and explosive HD gaming performance so you can dominate the competition.1
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Get unrivalled visual quality and intense gaming performance and for today and tomorrow with support for Microsoft® DirectX® 11 With ATI Eyefinity technology get the ultimate immersive gaming experience innovative ‘wrap around’ multi-display capabilities2,4 Tap into the massive parallel processing power of your GPU with ATI Stream technology and tackle demanding tasks like video transcoding with incredible speed3,5 Feel the brute strength of more than 2 teraFLOPS plowing through the most demanding games Experience the speed, responsiveness and performance of ultra-high bandwidth GDDR5 memory ATI CrossFireX™ technology with multi-GPU support offers advanced scalability6
ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 GPU Feature Summary 2.15 billion 40nm transistors TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture 1600 Stream Processing Units 80 Texture Units 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units 32 Color ROP Units GDDR5 interface with 153.6 GB/sec of memory bandwidth PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface DirectX® 11 support Shader Model 5.0 DirectCompute 11 Programmable hardware tessellation unit Accelerated multi-threading HDR texture compression Order-independent transparency OpenGL 3.2 support1 Image quality enhancement technology Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes Adaptive anti-aliasing 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering 128-bit floating point HDR rendering ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology2,3 Three independent display controllers Drive three displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays Display grouping Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display ATI Stream acceleration technology OpenCL 1.0 compliant DirectCompute 11 Double precision floating point processing support Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling4,5 Native support for common video encoding instructions ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology6 Dual, triple, and quad GPU scaling Dual-channel bridge interconnect ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology7 UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator Advanced post-processing and scaling8 Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction Brighter whites processing (blue stretch) Independent video gamma control Dynamic video range control Support for H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2 Dual-stream 1080p playback support9,10 DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP11 Max resolution: 2560x160012 Integrated DisplayPort output Max resolution: 2560x160012 Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio Max resolution: 1920x120012 Integrated VGA output Max resolution: 2048x153612 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support13 Integrated HD audio controller Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats ATI PowerPlay™ power management technology7 Dynamic power management with low power idle state Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP Speeds & Feeds
Engine clock speed: 850 MHz Processing power (single precision): 2.72 TeraFLOPS Processing power (double precision): 544 GigaFLOPS Polygon throughput: 850M polygons/sec Data fetch rate (32-bit): 272 billion fetches/sec Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 68 Gigatexels/sec Pixel fill rate: 27.2 Gigapixels/sec Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 108.8 Gigasamples/sec Memory clock speed: 1.2 GHz Memory data rate: 4.8 Gbps Memory bandwidth: 153.6 GB/sec Maximum board power: 188 Watts Idle board power: 27 Watts Share:
ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 System Requirements PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard 500 Watt or greater power supply with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode) Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to cuturl('http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU') for a list of Certified products Minimum 1GB of system memory Installation software requires CD-ROM drive DVD playback requires DVD drive Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive For an ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (included) are required
