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http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?psn=000101&pid=295

SAPPHIRE HD 5970 OC, the fastest graphics card – ever!

World leading graphics supplier, SAPPHIRE Technology, now introduces the world’s fastest graphics card, the SAPPHIRE HD 5970 OC Edition. With twice the computing power of the highly acclaimed SAPPHIRE HD 5870, the new HD 5970 model shares all the exciting features of this family – including support for the DirectCompute 11 instruction set of Microsoft DirectX 11, hardware tessellation and multi threaded communication with the system CPU. It also supports the acceleration of applications supported by ATI Stream, and the ability to display across three monitors simultaneously with ATI Eyefinity. The SAPPHIRE HD 5970 OC Edition ships with enhanced clock speeds of 735MHz core and 1010MHz (4.04GHz effective) - faster than the standard model, making the SAPPHIRE HD 5870 OC the fastest card in its class, and the fastest in the world*. Enthusiasts will also be able to tune performance of these SAPPHIRE cards using the SAPPHIRE Redline voltage tweaker tool** to enable higher levels of overclocking. With 2GB of fifth generation GDDR5 memory and a new architecture with a total of 3200 stream processors and 160 texture units the SAPPHIRE HD 5970 OC is lightning fast with existing DirectX10.1, DirectX 10 and DirectX 9.0 games and applications, and will support stunning new levels of detail, transparency and lighting effects in new releases of software using DirectX 11. All of this comes with a modest active power consumption and ATI Powerplay Dynamic Power Management to achieve super-low power consumption in 2D and idle modes. These cards incorporate the latest architectural features from the ATI division of AMD in order to fully support Microsoft DirectX 11, including DirectCompute 11 instructions, hardware Tessellation and multi-threaded communications with the system CPU. These combine to provide new capabilities such as the interaction between transparent objects, new lighting and accelerated post processing effects as well as supporting ATI Stream for accelerating applications such as video transcoding.

Mine is the 5870, 1 gig of DDR5. This one looks like a show stopper.

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:43 pm Post subject: Re: For geek

Yup, read a review on the ATI card and it's one sweet DX 11 card. Beats anything Nvidia has out now.

I did hear tha NVidia will be coming out with the FERMI card this month that will give ATI a run for it's money, but sources say it won't come close to beating the ATI card.

Nice that ATI has the crown now - hope they can keep it!

Speaking of which - what's the price of the ATI HD 5970 OC? I might just switch !!!!

Cool

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:12 pm Post subject: Re: For geek

the 5970 is basically two 5870 stuck together, monster card, also power consumption requirements and heat are the drawbacks, but if you want the performance? i like two in a crossfire setup Cool

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Sounds GREAT, I am sure it will use Catalyst drivers (they suck, see other post).

The 5970 sound badass. Would love to have a pair of those in crossfire .