ATI Radeon™ HD 5850 Graphics

Prepare to experience a riveting high-definition gaming experience with ATI Radeon™ HD 5850 graphics processors. Expand your visual real estate across up to three displays and get lost in the action with revolutionary ATI Eyefinity Technology. Using ATI Stream technology, accelerate even the most demanding applications and do more than ever with your PC. The first to deliver full support for Microsoft DirectX® 11, these GPUs enable rich, realistic visuals and explosive HD gaming performance so you can dominate the competition.

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Features & Benefits

    * Get unrivalled visual quality and intense gaming performance and for today and tomorrow with support for Microsoft® DirectX® 11
    * With ATI Eyefinity technology get the ultimate immersive gaming experience innovative ‘wrap around’ multi-display capabilities2,4
    * Tap into the massive parallel processing power of your GPU with ATI Stream technology and tackle demanding tasks like video transcoding with incredible speed3,5
    * Feel the brute strength of more than 2 teraFLOPS plowing through the most demanding games
    * Experience the speed, responsiveness and performance of ultra-high bandwidth GDDR5 memory
    * ATI CrossFireX™ technology with multi-GPU support offers advanced scalability

ATI Radeon™ HD 5850 GPU Feature Summary 

• 2.15 billion 40nm transistors
• TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
  
  • 1440 Stream Processing Units
  • 72 Texture Units
  • 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
  • 32 Color ROP Units
• GDDR5 interface with 128.0 GB/sec of memory bandwidth
• PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
• DirectX® 11 support
  
  • Shader Model 5.0
  • DirectCompute 11
  • Programmable hardware tessellation unitAccelerated multi-threading
  • HDR texture compression
  • Order-independent transparency
• OpenGL 3.2 support¹
• Image quality enhancement technology
  
  • Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
  • Adaptive anti-aliasing
  • 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
  • 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
• ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology^2,3
  
  • Three independent display controllers
    
    • Drive three displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
  • Display grouping
    
    • Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
• ATI Stream acceleration technology
  
  • OpenCL support¹⁴
  • DirectCompute 11
  • Double precision floating point processing support
  • Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling^4,5
• ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology⁶
  
  • Dual, triple, and quad GPU scaling
  • Dual-channel bridge interconnect
• ATI Avivo™ HD Video & Display technology⁷
  
  • UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
  • Advanced post-processing and scaling⁸
  • Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
  • Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch)
  • Independent video gamma control
  • Dynamic video range control
  • Support for H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2
  • Dual-stream 1080p playback support^9,10
  • DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
  • Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP¹¹
    
    • Max resolution: 2560x1600¹²
  • Integrated DisplayPort output
    
    • Max resolution: 2560x1600¹²
  • Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support and high bit-rate audio
    
    • Max resolution: 1920x1200¹²
  • Integrated VGA output
    
    • Max resolution: 2048x1536¹²
  • 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support¹³
  • Integrated HD audio controller
    
    • Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
    • Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
• ATI PowerPlay™ power management technology⁷
  
  • Dynamic power management with low power idle state
  • Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations
• Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP

Speeds & Feeds

• Engine clock speed: 725 MHz
• Processing power (single precision): 2.09 TeraFLOPS
• Processing power (double precision): 418 GigaFLOPS
• Polygon throughput: 725M polygons/sec
• Data fetch rate (32-bit): 209 billion fetches/sec
• Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 52.2 Gigatexels/sec
• Pixel fill rate: 23.2 Gigapixels/sec
• Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 92.8 Gigasamples/sec
• Memory clock speed: 1 GHz
• Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps
• Memory bandwidth: 128 GB/sec
• Maximum board power: 151 Watts
• Idle board power: 27 Watts 

ATI Radeon™ HD 5850 System Requirements 

• PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
• 500 Watt or greater power supply with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode)
• Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
• Minimum 1GB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive
• Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive
• For an ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 5850 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (included) are required.