ATI Radeon HD 5800 series
AMD today launched the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards, the world’s first to fully support Microsoft DirectX 11 included in Microsoft Windows 7 operating system. AMD will initially release two cards: the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and the ATI Radeon HD 5850, each with 1GB GDDR5 memory. The 5850, which is a cut down version of the 5870, is clocked at 725Mhz for the core and 1Ghz for the memory, giving it a maximum compute performance of 2.09 TFLOPS. It features 1440 stream processors divided among 18 SIMDs, 72 texture units and a 256bit memory bus. Load power consumption is 170W, while idle power consumption is around 27W. AMD is pricing it at $259.
The Radeon HD 5870 features 1600 stream processors divided among 20 SIMDs, 80 texture units and 1GB of GDDR5 memory connected to a 256bit memory bus. Clocked at 850MHz for the core clock and 1.2GHz for the memory, the 5870 is the most powerful graphics card now available on the market with a maximum compute performance of 2.72 teraflops. Load power consumption is 188W, and idle power is 27W. Price should be around $379.
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US $790.00
