ATI Radeon HD 5970: Hemlock is the King!

Radeon HD 5970 reference board

Sapphire Radeon HD 5970

The Radeon HD 5970 is the AMD’s new flagship graphics card. This card is today the world fastest 3D card. The Radeon HD 5970 is based on the Hemlock GPU which is actually two Cypress GPUs welded on the PCB.

The two Cypress GPUs

From this image, you’ll need a big tower to install the HD 5970:

From left to right: GTX 295, HD 5970, HD 5870 and HD 4890

Here are the specs of the beast:

• GPU: Hemlock (or 2 x Cypress) @ 725MHz / 40nm
• Shaders cores (or stream processors): 3200 (2×1600)
• Memory: 2 x 1024MB @ 256-bit per GPU
• Color ROPs: 64 (2 x 32)
• Z / Stencil ROPs: 256 (2 x 128)
• Texture units: 160 (2 x 80)
• GPU Computing: OpenCL and Direct Compute
• 3D APIs: OpenGL 3.2 (when Catalyst will bring the support) and Direct3D 11
• Price: around 600$
• More specifications HERE

Reviews:

• HIS Radeon HD 5970 CrossFire @ techPowerUp
• AMD’s Radeon HD 5970 graphics card @ The Tech Report
• AMD ATI Radeon HD 5970 Video Card Review @ [H]ard OCP
• Radeon HD 5970: Review of the fastest DirectX 11 graphics card @ PCGHX
• Radeon HD 5970 Single card and Crossfire review @ Guru3D

OpenGL test: Quake4

Direct3D test: Far Cry 2

Power consumption with FurMark

GPU temperature with FurMark

Graphics cards makers roundup

MSI Radeon HD 5970

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