ATI Radeon HD 5970 specifications revealed

Posted on Wednesday, November 11 2009 @ 21:01 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
TC Mag found some specifications of an upcoming Radeon HD 5970 graphics card from Sapphire:
Made by Sapphire, the listed Hemlock card, which is most likely an all-stock product, has two 725 MHz-clocked Cypress 40nm GPUs, each with 1600 Stream Processors, and 2GB of GDDR5 memory set at 4000 MHz, both frequencies being at HD 5850 level.

The dual-GPU, dual-slot card also has a 2x256-bit memory interface, DirectX 11 and CrossFireX support, and dual-DVI outputs plus one mini DisplayPort connector (no HDMI like for the HD 5800 cards).


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