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AMD expands graphics products line with ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series

ATI Radeon HD 5700 graphics cards deliver more than 1 teraflops of compute power.

-- EDN, 10/19/2009 6:00:00 AM

AMD has unveiled the ATI Radeon HD 5770 and ATI Radeon HD 5750 graphics cards, both of which support Microsoft Direct X 11 technology and ATI Eyefinity multimonitor capability.

ATI Radeon HD 5700 graphics cards deliver more than 1 teraflops of compute power; they include a graphics core built on 40-nm process technology and up to 800 stream processors. ATI Eyefinity technology enables up to three monitors to be used with a single ATI Radeon HD 5770 or ATI Radeon HD 5750 graphics card. ATI Stream technology and the HD 5700 series support both DirectX 11 Direct Compute and OpenCL industry standards.

For home theatre applications, the ATI Radeon HD 5700 series supports Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio, and HDMI 3.1. The ATI Radeon HD 5700 series consumes as little as 16 W at idle.

"Over the last decade, graphics processors supporting each new version of DirectX have achieved high volume shipments earlier in their life cycles than their predecessors. Our forecast is that DirectX 11-capable GPUs will continue this trend with the fastest transition between technologies ever, resulting in shipments surpassing DirectX 10 GPUs in 2010," said Dean McCarron, founder of Mercury Research

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