The most expensive card in the new 5 series DirectX 11 ATI graphics cards, the 5870×2, appears to produce a massive amount of heat proving to make it very hard to cool effectively. The TDP is set at a massive 376W and although ATI are working on resolving the heat issues, a drop in speed for the GPUs seem inevitable to drop the heat levels down.
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AMD Unveil Radeon HD 5850, 5870 and 5870×2 Graphics Cards
September 10, 2009 – 8:55 am
AMD have released the specifications on their new 5 series graphics cards. Using the RV870, it’s not surprising that the middle card has been named the Radeon HD 5870. The chip works at 825MHz with 1600 shaders double that of the RV770 and perhaps indicating a speed of double the older chip.
Pricing Discovered for AMD Radeon 58XX Graphics Series
September 7, 2009 – 8:42 am
The new Radeon 5 series of graphics cards set to support Windows 7 D11 graphics and supposedly AMD’s ace up their sleeve has lost its secrecy in the pricing department with the price tag now all over the web.