Tuesday, November 25, 2008

ATI RADEON HD 5870 New Technology for DirectX 11

ATI has focused on three main features and key selling points for the 5000 product series. First, a new graphics adapter, of course, DirectX 11 ready. With Windows 7 and DX11 Vista be ready all we need is a few games to take advantage of DirectCompute, multi-threading, Hardware Tessellation and a new shader 5.0 extension. DX11 will be good. More on that later in this article, of course.

Other major features of the product that you've learned about Eyefinity of course, the ability to connect one to which up to six monitors (depending on the AIC / Shame choice of output) for your videocard and use it in a desktop environment, or to make a wide screen resolution great for playing games in It's nice, clearly not the choice many of you will use it but really it is the heart, too. We will explain this in a separate chapter, though.

The third prominent feature large and of course performance. Often times in the past we have seen the new OS was released with a new class of DirectX. Usually manufacturers like ATI and Nvidia remain low performance and lower product costs, barely allowing a new title to be played either with a new graphics card. ATI has changed the rules today as the Radeon HD 5870 now have 1600 stream processors (shader processors). ATI litrerally doubled everything in the GPU and thus we saw a GPU die with 2:15 billion transistors. Was 2150 million transistors you. In comparison, the Radeon HD 4890 has 956 million.

So, quite a lot in this GPU architecture has changed with one important task in mind, creating the absolute fastest single GPU based graphics cards in the market. Radeon HD 5870 up to now will be the world's most powerful GPU pushed more than 2.7 TFLOPS of computing power, but the first DX11 GPUs in the market and, as this article will show, also comes with a revolutionary design as the peak energy of this card is only 188 watts Watts.

ATI EYEFINITY
Hot new features for ATI Radeon graphics cards have been announced, ATI Eyefinity. ATI introduced the technology in their Eyefinity Radeon HD 5000 series graphics cards. This really comes down to a multi-monitor desktop! You will not have trouble connecting three 30" monitors at 2560x1600. Graphics card can take the resolution and in fact combining screen resolution and play in it.

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