Wednesday, November 11th 2009
AMD Radeon HD 5970 Specs Surface
In a few days from now, AMD will unveil its new flagship graphics accelerator, the ATI Radeon HD 5970, which will intends to cement the brand's performance leadership over every product from rival NVIDIA. The HD 5970, codenamed "Hemlock", is a dual-GPU accelerator, with two codenamed "Cypress" GPUs in an internal CrossfireX configuration.
Built on the 40 nm process, these GPUs will feature 1600 stream processors each, and will each have a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface to connect to 2 GB of memory (4 GB total on card). The clock speeds are where the specifications of these GPUs differ from their single-GPU avatar, the Radeon HD 5870. The core is clocked at 725 MHz, while the memory runs at 1000 MHz (4000 MHz effective).
The accelerator will not have a rear panel identical to those of other Radeon HD 5000 series accelerators. It has the usual broad air vent occupying one slot, while the other has two DVI-D and one mini DisplayPort (DP) connector. The mini DP connector can give out DVI output using a dongle, and in this way, support for ATI Eyefinity technology remains intact. The NDA covering this accelerator is said to expire on the 19th of November, not very far away.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
Built on the 40 nm process, these GPUs will feature 1600 stream processors each, and will each have a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface to connect to 2 GB of memory (4 GB total on card). The clock speeds are where the specifications of these GPUs differ from their single-GPU avatar, the Radeon HD 5870. The core is clocked at 725 MHz, while the memory runs at 1000 MHz (4000 MHz effective).
The accelerator will not have a rear panel identical to those of other Radeon HD 5000 series accelerators. It has the usual broad air vent occupying one slot, while the other has two DVI-D and one mini DisplayPort (DP) connector. The mini DP connector can give out DVI output using a dongle, and in this way, support for ATI Eyefinity technology remains intact. The NDA covering this accelerator is said to expire on the 19th of November, not very far away.
147 Comments on AMD Radeon HD 5970 Specs Surface
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Funny, I could have sworn there were differences.... PCB, pci-e power requirements, cooler... In any case I really don't want to get into this here, its hardly the thread, Wanna start one about it? :rolleyes:
:p
unless I am missing something here.
This is a guess, but it's what the previous generation did. I assume ATI's going to go with the same thing.
This thing will kick the crap out of even the strongest fermi single chip card ,that still has a very long way to get in the market
This is not the case. Any such cards will work fine in a 32-bit OS. Once the texture is created in system memory (which you have to do in any case) the GPU is tasked with copying it to video memory without any CPU interaction (DMA transfer). In other words, the GPU is told: "copy 16 MB of texture from main memory address X into GPU memory". Done.
Even now, looking at jaredpace post, you can see that it's US$600, where 2x5870s would cost about US$800, considering they're going for about US$400 ATM.
All of which is pretty pricey thanks to nVidia's fumbling. If you think about it however, the performance is worth the price, far more so than previous generations of cards that still couldn't handle the games of their day totally, but were being priced even higher than this.:slap: