The sub £50 DirectX 11 sector was filled recently with the launch of AMD’s passively cooled HD 5450 aimed at HTPC and small case users. Just days after, AMD have detailed yet another card, the HD 5570 which should fill in between the HD 5450 and HD 5670 cards.
Tag Archives: DirectX 11
AMD Launches ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series DirectX 11 Compliant Graphics Cards
September 23, 2009 – 4:52 pm
AMD today launched the most powerful processor ever created1, found in its next-generation graphics cards, the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series graphics cards, and the world’s first and only to fully support Microsoft DirectX® 112, the new gaming and compute standard shipping shortly with Microsoft Windows® 7 operating system.
Nvidia Plays Down DirectX 11 Graphics Card Sales
September 21, 2009 – 5:50 pm
A recent financial analyst conference has seen Nvidia tell the world that DX11 will not push up graphics card sales. Instead the company holds its GPGPU (general purpose computing on graphics processing units) in a much higher regard believing that is it far more important than a new game
ATI 5870×2 has huge TDP of 376W
September 15, 2009 – 5:15 pm
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.
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.
ATI RV870 / R800 Set For Release Coinciding with DirectX 11
June 3, 2009 – 9:49 am
As it stands, DirectX 11 hardware is more likely to be released before Microsoft’s newest OS – Windows 7 – which is set for an October 22nd release date.