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Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB in CrossFire Tested

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Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB in CrossFire Tested Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review AMD unveiled the new ATI Radeon HD 5800 series earlier today. We already published a HD 5870 Review Round-Up.
Tweaktown tested the new ATI Radeon HD 5870 also in Crossfire setup.
Quote from the review: "We're not going to blabber on too much here, because we're sure you don't want to read about us having two HD 5870s. You just want to know what happens when we put those two HD 5870s into the one system and run our flurry of benchmarks. Read more

Posted on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:05:50 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Review Round-Up

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Review Round-Up Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review AMD unveiled today the new ATI Radeon HD 5870 and HD5850 high end graphics cards that support the new Windows 7 DirectX 11.
Several hardware sites already got their hands on the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and published performance analysis and reviews of the new ATI HD 5800 Series cards.
The reviews of the ATI Radeon HD 5870 lead to promising results putting NVIDIA on the spot to deliver something to beat the new ATI Cards. Tweaktown writes: "So that's our first HD 5870 and to be honest the card is a whole lot better than I expected it to be. The HD 5870 really had to do one thing; that was beat the NVIDIA GTX 285. The thing about that, though, is it had to do that one thing well. The good news? It does; it manages to do it very well."
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Posted on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New ATI Radeon HD 5870 And 5850 Are First To Support DirectX 11

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New ATI Radeon HD 5870 And 5850 Are First To Support DirectX 11 Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Today AMD launched the most powerful processor ever created, found in its next-generation ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards, the world’s first and only to fully support Microsoft DirectX 11, the new gaming and compute standard shipping shortly with Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.

Boasting up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of compute power, the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series effectively doubles the value you can expect of your graphics purchases, delivering twice the performance-per-dollar of previous generations of graphics products. Read more

Posted on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:08:16 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr