ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 - The fastest graphics card on the planet

Engineered for speed, the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 delivers an unrivaled HD gaming experience so you can play the latest, most demanding HD titles like never before.2  Featuring cutting-edge graphic, display and memory technology, this next-generation powerhouse delivers unprecedented performance straight out of the box.  Unlocked, this graphics card has massive headroom so you can take control and push your hardware to its full potential

ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Graphics Feature Summary 

• Dual GPUs with a total of 4.3 billion 40nm transistors
• TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
  
  
  • 3200 Stream Processing Units
  • 160 Texture Units
  • 256 Z/Stencil ROP Units
  • 64 Color ROP Units
  • Price : 600-700 $
  
  
• GDDR5 memory interface
• PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
• DirectX 11 support
  
  
  • Shader Model 5.0
  • DirectCompute 11
  • Programmable hardware tessellation unit
  • Accelerated 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
  • Super AA
  • 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
    
    
    • Native support for common video encoding instructions
• ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology⁶
  
  
  • Dual card performance scaling
• 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 single and multi-board configurations
• Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP

 Speeds & Feeds

• Engine clock speed: 725 MHz
• Processing power (single precision): 4.64 TeraFLOPS
• Processing power (double precision): 928 GigaFLOPS
• Polygon throughput: 1.45 billion polygons/sec
• Data fetch rate (32-bit): 464 billion fetches/sec
• Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 116 Gigatexels/sec
• Pixel fill rate: 46.4 Gigapixels/sec
• Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 185.6 Gigasamples/sec
• Memory clock speed: 1.0 GHz
• Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps
• Memory bandwidth: 256.0 GB/sec
• Maximum board power: 294 Watts
• Idle board power: 51 Watts

 ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 System Requirements

    * PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
    * 650 Watt or greater power supply one 75W 6-pin and one 150W 8-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (850 Watt with two 75W 6-pin and two 150W 8-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 5970 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (included) are required.

Source : www.amd.com,www.tomshardware.com