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AMD DirectX 11 cards to be called Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850

Written by IT News on 1:24 AM

The details of AMD's next-generation desktop graphics cards continue to beat the Internet, as we approach the long-awaited moment of Sunnyvale, California-based company will officially take the shawl first DirectX 11 card. After the photos of the alleged first AMD cards with DirectX 11 support, we have no new information on the future of video card manufacturers. Codename Cypress, AMD's upcoming DirectX 11 cards will be released in Radeon HD 5800-series branding, the Center offers Cypress XT Radeon HD 5870 and the name of Cypress PRO called HD 5850th

According to a recent news article that came to VR-Zone, the new cards starting somewhere next month, with availability planned for later in October, at the time of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system that would be. There are some technical details are available on the new maps, but no details of the main speed.

The key features that will activate if the cards are coming from AMD, we highlight the following:

• 1 GB of GDDR5 memory
• ATI Eyefinity technology with support for up to three screens
• ATI-Stream Technology
• Designed for Direct Compute 5.0 and OpenCL
• Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
• Compatible with DirectX 11 and older revisions
• Supports OpenGL 3.1
• ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
• ATI Avivo HD video and display technology
• Dynamic Power Management with ATI PowerPlay technology
• -DL-DVI-DL-DVI, DVI, HDMI
• PCI Express 2.0 support

Many of the above specifications have speculated on the Internet in the past, such as the release date for these new cards. With the anticipated launch of a couple of weeks ahead, more details will emerge, including clock speeds and the best benchmark results of the new cards.