AMD unveiled Radeon HD 5800, DirectX 11 series

news article released on: 26 September, 2009

Earlier this week, AMD launched its most powerful processor to date (based on raw compute horsepower measured in FLOPS), found in its next-generation ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards. The Radeon HD 5800 series is the first to fully support Microsoft DirectX 11, which will be shipping with the Windows 7 operating system. AMD will initially release two cards: the ATI Radeon HD 5870 ...

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"it can now also bitstream Dolby TrueHD and hd.cfm" class="forum_link" target="_blank">DTS-HD MA. It is the first and only video card to be able to do this" -anandtech
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any pricing on these bad boys? i would love to pick one of those up when it comes out.

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$400 for the 5870 and $300 for the 5850. BUT next month comes out the 5870x2 for $500, so id hold of buying anything, becuase pricedrops are imenent.

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Looks good, acoording to review's it beats even the dual core cards, except GTX295.

http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/sapphire_hd5870/

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