Tag Archives: DX11

GIGABYTE Presents Radeon™ HD 5800 Series Graphics Cards, First to Offer Full Support for Microsoft DirectX® 11

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards today is pleased to launch the latest addition to its selection of premium graphics cards. GIGABYTE’s GV-R587D5-1GD-B and GV-R585D5-1GD-B are built using ATI RadeonTM HD 5800 Series GPUs ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬? which are based on 40nm process and advanced GDDR5 memory technology. These powerful new GPUs provide for a host of innovative new features including Microsoft DirectX® 11, ATI Eyefinity Technology, ATI Stream technology, Quad mode ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support, UVD 2 and PowerPlay™, and offer an incredibly immersive HD gaming experience and unrivaled performance.

AMD Launches ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series DirectX 11 Compliant Graphics Cards

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

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

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

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

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.

ATI Set to Release Five 40nm DX11 GPUs

Secrecy is always a big part of any launch with the manufacturer doing its utmost to prevent information being leaked; this is the case with ATI and allegedly Rick Bergman is the man behind keeping the media from finding out about all the details.