Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 OC Review

ccokeman - November 20, 2009
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Specifications:

Process	40nm
Transistors	4.3 Billion
Engine Clock	725MHz
Stream Processors	3200
Compute performance	4.64TFlops
Texture Units	160
Texture Fillrate	116.0 Gtexel/s
ROP	64
Pixel Fillrate	46.4 Gpixel/s
Z/Stencil	185.6Gsamples/s
Memory Type	GDDR5
Memory Clock	1000Mhz
Memory Data Rate	4.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	256.0 GB/s
Naximum Board Power	294watts
Idle Board Power	42watts

Features:

Full Microsoft DirectX® 11 Support
ATI Eyefinity Technology, support up to 3 displays.
ATI Stream technology
Microsoft Windows 7 Support
40nm Process Technology
Dual 2nd Generation TeraScale Engines
Enhanced Anisotropic Filtering
Accelerated Video Transcoding
Display Flexibility
PCI Express® 2.1 support
Advanced GDDR5 Memory Technology
HDMI 1.3 support
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance.
ATI Avivo HD Support
ATI Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD) for Blu-ray™ and HD Video, Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)m DVD Upscaling, Dynamic Contrast, Built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support
Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology including memory clocks
Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master AudioTM Support: Requires application support for ATI Stream technology
System Requirements: Sapphire HD 5970 System Requirements, PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard, 650 Watt or greater power supply one 75W 6-pin and one 150W 8-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (850 Watt with two 75W 6-pin and two 150W 8-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode) ,Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of certified products, Minimum 1GB of system memory, Installation software requires CD-ROM drive, DVD playback requires DVD drive, Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive For an ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 graphics card, an, ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI.
Operation System Support: Windows XP(32Bit/64Bit); Windows Vista(32Bit/64Bit); Windows Media Center Edition 2005, Windows 7