PowerColor Radeon HD 5870 PCS+ Review

RHKCommander959 - March 7, 2010
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Specifications:

Graphics Engine	Radeon HD 5870
Video Memory	1GB GDDR5
Engine Clock	875 MHz
Memory Clock	1225 MHz (4.9 Gbps)
Memory Interface	256bit
DirectX Support	11
Bus Standard	PCIE 2.1

Features:

2.15 billion 40nm transistors
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
- 1600 Stream Processing Units
- 80 Texture Units
- 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
  - 32 Color ROP Units
256-bit GDDR5 memory interface
PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
DirectX® 11 support
- Shader Model 5.0
- DirectCompute 11
- Programmable hardware tessellation unit
- Accelerated multi-threading
- HDR texture compression
- Order-independent transparency
OpenGL 3.2 support
- Image quality enhancement technology
- Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
- Adaptive anti-aliasing
- 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
- 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology
- Three independent display controllers
- Drive three displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays Display grouping
- Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
- ATI Eyefinity Technology requires a Display Port out of three outputs
ATI Stream acceleration technology
- OpenCL 1.0 compliant
- DirectCompute 11
- Double precision floating point processing support
- Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling
- Native support for common video encoding instructions
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology
- Dual, triple, and quad GPU scaling
- Dual-channel bridge interconnect
ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology
- UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
- Advanced post-processing and scaling
- Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
- Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)
- Independent video gamma control
- Dynamic video range control
- Support for H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2
- Dual-stream 1080p playback support
- DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
- Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP11
  - Max resolution: 2560x1600
- Integrated DisplayPort output
  - Max resolution: 2560x1600
- Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
  - Max resolution: 1920x1200
- Integrated VGA output
  - Max resolution: 2048x1536
- Integrated HD audio controller
  - Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
  - Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio format
ATI PowerPlay™ power management technology
- Dynamic power management with low power idle state
- Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations
Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP