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GeForce GTX 285

2010-04-02T07:23:00.000-07:00

Experience the hottest games at mind blowing frame rates, or go beyond traditional 3D graphics with Graphics Plus™ and experience GPU-accelerated NVIDIA® PhysX™ gaming effects, Stereoscopic 3D, and lightning fast video and image processing.
Go Beyond HD
Take your DirectX® 10 gaming beyond HD, with the power of GeForce GTX 285 GPUs. Place yourself in the center of the action and experience true DirectX 10 gaming cinema in extreme HD (2560x1600) resolutions—all enabled by GeForce 200 Series’ second generation unified architecture, NVIDIA® SLI® technology, and incredible performance in the latest games including Far Cry 2, Mirrors Edge, and Call of Duty 5: World at War. With up to 50% more performance than prior generation GPUs, GeForce GTX 285 GPUs tear through complex DirectX 10 environments and cinematic effects at blazing frame rates in extreme HD resolutions.
Experience Graphics Plus

The GeForce GTX 285 graphics card with CUDA technology not only provides a world-class gaming experience, it also delivers Graphics Plus. Experience jaw-dropping PhysX gaming effects, stereoscopic 3D, and lightning fast video and image processing all accelerated by the GPU. Whether it’s experiencing a new world of realistic physical motion and massively destructible environments, strapping on your NVIDIA® GeForce ® 3D Vision™ glasses to game in true stereoscopic 3D, transcoding HD videos in minutes to your portable video player¹, or rapidly editing digital images using Adobe® CS4, the GeForce GTX 285 graphics card does it all with mind blowing performance.

PRICE : $399.99-$442.40
BUY : HERE

Features

2nd Generation NVIDIA Unified Architecture
Second generation architecture delivers 50% more gaming performance over the first generation through 240 enhanced processor cores that provide incredible shading horsepower.
3-way SLI Technology¹
Industry leading 3-way NVIDIA SLI® technology offers amazing performance scaling by implementing 3-way AFR (Alternate Frame Rendering) for the world’s premier gaming solution under Windows Vista® with solid, state-of-the-art drivers.
DirectX 10 Support
Microsoft® DirectX® 10 GPU with full Shader Model 4.0 support delivers unparalleled levels of graphics realism and film-quality effects for today’s hottest games.
CUDA Technology²
NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology unlocks the power of the GPU’s processor cores to accelerate the most demanding system tasks - such as video transcoding - delivering up to 20x performance over traditional CPUs.
PCI Express 2.0 Support
Designed for the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture offering the highest data transfer speeds for the most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications, while maintaining backwards compatibility with existing PCI Express motherboards for the broadest support.
SLI Multi-Monitor support
Switch seamlessly between multi-display desktop mode and full screen 3D gaming with SLI. And enjoy full multi-GPU support for dual-display capable 3D games such as World in Conflict, Supreme Commander Forged Alliance, and Flight Simulator X.
GigaThread™ Technology
Massively multi-threaded architecture supports thousands of independent, simultaneous threads, providing extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next-generation shader programs.
NVIDIA® Lumenex™ Engine
Delivers stunning image quality and floating point accuracy at ultra-fast frame rates.
16x Anti-aliasing Technology
Lightning fast, high-quality anti-aliasing at up to 16x sample rates obliterates jagged edges.
128-bit floating point High Dynamic-Range (HDR) Lighting
Twice the precision of prior generations for incredibly realistic lighting effects—now with support for anti-aliasing.
OpenGL 2.1 Optimization and Support
Provides top-notch compatibility and performance for OpenGL applications.
Dual Dual-link DVI Support
Able to drive the industry’s largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560x1600 and with support for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP).³
HDMI Output⁴
Support for HDMI output enables sending both high-definition video and audio signals to an HDTV via a single cable.
NVIDIA® PureVideo® HD Technology⁵
The combination of high-definition video decode acceleration and post-processing that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for movies and video.
Discrete, Programmable Video Processor
PureVideo is a discrete programmable processing core in NVIDIA GPUs that provides superb picture quality and ultra-smooth movies with 100% offload of H.264 video decoding from the CPU and significantly reduced power consumption.
Dual-stream Hardware Acceleration
Supports picture-in-picture content for the ultimate interactive Blu-ray movie experience.
Dynamic Contrast Enhancement & Color Stretch
Dynamically provides post-processing and optimization of High Definition movies for spectacular picture clarity.

¹ NVIDIA SLI certified versions of GeForce PCI Express GPUs only. A GeForce GTX 285 GPU must be paired with another GeForce GTX 285 GPU (graphics card manufacturer can be different). SLI requires sufficient system cooling and a compatible power supply. Visit www.slizone.com for more information and a listing of SLI-Certified components.
² Requires application support for CUDA technology.
³ Playback of HDCP protected content requires other HDCP-compatible components
⁴ Requires DVI-to-HDMI dongle and SPDIF audio cable from motherboard to graphics card
⁵ Feature requires supported video software. Features may vary by product.

Specifications

Note: The below specifications represent this GPU as incorporated into NVIDIA's reference graphics card design. Graphics card specifications may vary by Add-in-card manufacturer. Please refer to the Add-in-card manufacturers' website for actual shipping specifications.

GPU Engine Specs:

CUDA Cores	240
Graphics Clock (MHz)	648 MHz
Processor Clock (MHz)	1476 MHz
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec)	51.8

Memory Specs:

Memory Clock (MHz)	1242
Standard Memory Config	1 GB GDDR3
Memory Interface Width	512-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)	159.0

Feature Support:

NVIDIA SLI®-ready	2-way/3-Way
NVIDIA 3D Vision Ready
NVIDIA PureVideo® Technology	HD
NVIDIA PhysX™-ready
NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology
Microsoft DirectX	10
OpenGL	2.1
Certified for Windows 7

Display Support:

Maximum Digital Resolution	2560x1600
Maximum VGA Resolution	2048x1536
Standard Display Connectors	HDTV Two Dual Link DVI
Multi Monitor
HDCP
HDMI	Via adapter
Audio Input for HDMI	SPDIF

Standard Graphics Card Dimensions:

Height	4.376 inches (111 mm)
Length	10.5 inches (267 mm)
Width	Dual-slot

Thermal and Power Specs:

Maximum GPU Temperature (in C)	105 C
Maximum Graphics Card Power (W)	204 W
Minimum Recommended System Power (W)	550 W
Supplementary Power Connectors	6-pin x2

- The number of processor cores may vary by model.
- Feature requires supported video software. Features may vary by product.
- Playback of HDCP-protected content requires other HDCP-compatible components.
- Certain GeForce GPUs ship with hardware support for NVIDIA PhysX technology. NVIDIA PhysX drivers are required to experience in-game GPU PhysX acceleration. Refer to www.nvidia.com/PhysX for more information.
- NVIDIA SLI certified versions of GeForce PCI Express GPUs only. A GeForce GPU must be paired with an identical GPU, regardless of graphics card manufacturer. SLI requires sufficient system cooling and a compatible power supply. Visit www.slizone.com for more information and a listing of SLI-Certified components.
- Requires external DisplayPort transmitter. 10-bit per component scanout requires future GeForce driver support.
- Memory interface width may vary by model.
- Requires NVIDIA HybridPower™- enabled motherboard.- Requires DVI-to-HDMI dongle and SPDIF audio cable from motherboard to graphics card.

ATI Radeon™ HD 5450 Graphics

2010-04-01T08:00:00.000-07:00

Expand with ATI Eyefinity Technology
Accelerate with ATI Stream Technology
Enhance your home entertainment experience with DirectX^® 11 and Windows 7^®

PRICE : $50 - $60

Features & Benefits

Expand your visual real estate across up to three displays and get lost in the action with ATI Eyefinity Technology.
Use ATI Stream technology, to accelerate demanding applications and do more than ever with your PC.
Enhance your entertainment experience with Windows^® 7 and DirectX^® 11, play the most popular games online and watch HD video with incredible realism
Consumes less than 20 watts under full load, eliminating the need for an external power connection and making installation a snap.
ATI Radeon™ HD 5450 GPU Feature Summary
- 292 million 40nm transistors
- TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
  - 80 Stream Processing Units
  - 8 Texture Units
  - 16 Z/Stencil ROP Units
  - 4 Color ROP Units
- DDR3/DDR2 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 12x 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 up to 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 Support¹
  - DirectCompute 11
  - Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling^4,5
    Native support for common video encoding instructions
- ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology⁶
  - Dual GPU scaling
- ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology⁷
  - UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
  - Advanced post-processing and scaling⁸
  - Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction⁹
  - Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)¹⁰
  - Independent video gamma control¹⁰
  - Dynamic video range control
  - Support for H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, and Adobe Flash¹¹
  - Dual-stream (HD+SD) playback support^12,13
  - DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
  - Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP¹⁴
    Max resolution: 2560x1600¹⁵
  - Integrated DisplayPort output
    Max resolution: 2560x1600¹⁵
  - Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
    Max resolution: 1920x1200¹⁵
  - Integrated VGA output
    Max resolution: 2048x1536¹⁵
  - 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support¹⁶
  - 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
- Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP
Speeds & Feeds
- Engine clock speed: 650 MHz
- Processing power (single precision): 104 GigaFLOPS
- Polygon throughput: 650M polygons/sec
- Data fetch rate (32-bit): 20.8 billion fetches/sec
- Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 5.2 Gigatexels/sec
- Pixel fill rate: 2.6 Gigapixels/sec
- Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 10.4 Gigasamples/sec
- Memory clock speed: 400 MHz DDR2 and up to 800 MHz DDR3
- Memory data rate: 0.8 Gbps DDR2 and up to 1.6 Gbps DDR3
- Memory bandwidth: 6.4 GB/sec (DDR2) and up to 12.8 GB/sec (DDR3)
- Typical power: 19.1Watts
- Idle power: 6.4Watts
1. OpenCL compliant driver and SDK release scheduled for later in 2010
2. Driver version 8.66 (Catalyst 9.10) or above is required to support ATI Eyefinity technology and to enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector
3. ATI Eyefinity Technology can support up to 3 displays using a single enabled ATI Radeon™ graphics card – the number of displays may vary by board design and you should confirm exact specifications with the applicable manufacturer before purchase. ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios, which is required for panning across multiple displays. To enable more than two displays, additional panels with native DisplayPort™ connectors, and/or certified DisplayPort™ adapters to convert your monitor’s native input to your cards DisplayPort™ or Mini-DisplayPort™ connector(s), are required. Digital management rights restrictions may apply.
4. Requires application support for ATI Stream technology
5. Digital rights management restrictions may apply
6. ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, and may require a specialized power supply
7. ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo™ and ATI Stream are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products
8. Upscaling subject to available monitor resolution
9. Not available with Blu-ray picture-in-picture
10. May not be available for all desktop resolutions with Windows Aero enabled
11. Adobe Flash video acceleration and post-processing is supported for H.264-encoded content. Requires Adobe Flash Player 10.1 plug-in and Catalyst 9.11 or higher.
12. Blu-ray or HD DVD drive and HD monitor required
13. Requires Blu-ray movie disc supporting dual streams or picture-in-picture
14. Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components, including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, Blu-ray or HD DVD disc drive, multimedia application and computer operating system.
15. Some custom resolutions require user configuration
16. Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display
ATI Radeon™ HD 5450 System Requirements
Suggested ATI Radeon™ HD 5450 512MB DDR3 System Requirements
- PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
- 400 Watt or greater power supply recommended
- 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

ATI Radeon™ HD 5570 Graphics

2010-04-01T07:42:00.000-07:00

Expand with ATI Eyefinity Technology
Accelerate with ATI Stream Technology
Enhanced for DirectX® 11 and Windows® 7

PRICE : ~$79.

Features & Benefits

Expand your visual real estate across up to three displays and get lost in the action with ATI Eyefinity Technology.
Use ATI Stream technology, to accelerate demanding applications and do more than ever with your PC.
Enhance your entertainment experience with Windows® 7 and DirectX® 11, play the most popular games online and watch HD video with incredible realism
Consumes less than 45 watts under full load, and provides superior stability and reliability with ATI Catalyst™ software.

ATI Radeon™ HD 5570 GPU Feature Summary

627 million 40nm transistors
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
- 400 Stream Processing Units
- 20 Texture Units
- 32 Z/Stencil ROP Units
- 8 Color ROP Units
DDR3 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
- 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 display to behave like a single large display
ATI Stream acceleration technology
- OpenCL Support¹
- DirectCompute 11
- Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling^4,5
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology⁶
- Dual GPU 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, MPEG-2, and Adobe Flash⁹
- Dual-stream 1080p playback support^10,11
- DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
- Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP¹²
  - Max resolution: 2560x1600¹³
- Integrated DisplayPort output
  - Max resolution: 2560x1600¹³
- Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
  - Max resolution: 1920x1200¹³
- Integrated VGA output
  - Max resolution: 2048x1536¹³
- 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support¹⁴
- 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: 650 MHz
Processing power (single precision): 520 GigaFLOPS
Polygon throughput: 650M polygons/sec
Data fetch rate (32-bit): 52 billion fetches/sec
Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 13 Gigatexels/sec
Pixel fill rate: 5.2 Gigapixels/sec
Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 20.8 Gigasamples/sec
Memory clock speed: 900 MHz
Memory data rate: 1.8 Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 28.8 GB/sec
Maximum board power: 45 Watts
Idle board power: 10 Watts

OpenCL compliant driver and SDK release scheduled for later in 2010
Catalyst 9.10 driver or above is required to support ATI Eyefinity technology and to enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector
ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for panning across three displays
Requires application support for ATI Stream technology
Digital rights management restrictions may apply
ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card) and may require a specialized power supply
ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo™ and ATI Stream are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products
Upscaling subject to available monitor resolution
Adobe Flash video acceleration and post-processing is supported for H.264-encoded content. Requires Adobe Flash Player 10.1 plug-in and ATI Catalyst 9.11 or higher video driver.
Blu-ray or HD DVD drive and HD monitor required
Requires Blu-ray movie disc supporting dual 1080p streams
Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components, including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, Blu-ray or HD DVD disc drive, multimedia application and computer operating system.
Some custom resolutions require user configuration
Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display

ATI Radeon™ HD 5570 System Requirements

Suggested ATI Radeon™ HD 5570 512MB DDR3 System Requirements

PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
400 Watt or greater power supply recommended
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

http://www.amd.com/

ATI Radeon™ HD 5670 Graphics

2010-03-29T09:07:00.000-07:00

ATI Radeon™ HD 5670 graphics processors offer best-in-class performance and features with complete DirectX^®11 support and the world’s most advanced graphics, display and memory technologies¹:

Expand with ATI Eyefinity Technology
Accelerate with ATI Stream Technology
Dominate your games with DirectX^® 11 Gaming

PRICES : 90$-100$

Features & Benefits

Expand your visual real estate across up to three displays and get lost in the action with ATI Eyefinity Technology²
Using ATI Stream technology, accelerate demanding applications and do more than ever with your PC³
Enjoy rich, realistic visuals with explosive performance
Consumes less than 75 Watts under full load, eliminating the need for an external power connection and making installation a snap
ATI CrossFireX™ technology dual mode support⁴
Ultra-high bandwidth GDDR5 memory

As of January 2010, ATI Radeon™ HD 5670 Graphics cards are the only graphics cards under 75 Watts at full load to provide full support for DirectX® 11, ATI Eyefinity and ATI Stream technology
ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for panning across three displays and to enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector
Requires application support for ATI Stream technology
ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and may require an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect (for the additional graphics card) and a specialized power supply

ATI Radeon™ HD 5670 GPU Feature Summary

627 million 40nm transistors
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
- 400 Stream Processing Units
- 20 Texture Units
- 32 Z/Stencil ROP Units
- 8 Color ROP Units
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
- 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 support¹⁵
- DirectCompute 11
- Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling⁴,⁵
  - Native support for common video encoding instructions
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology⁶
- Dual GPU 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, MPEG-2, and Adobe Flash⁹
- Dual-stream 1080p playback support ^10,11
- DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
- Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP¹²
  - Max resolution: 2560x1600¹³
- Integrated DisplayPort output
  - Max resolution: 2560x1600¹³
- Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
  - Max resolution: 1920x1200¹³
- Integrated VGA output
  - Max resolution: 2048x1536¹³
  - 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support¹⁴
  - 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: 775 MHz
Processing power (single precision): 620 GigaFLOPS
Polygon throughput: 775M polygons/sec
Data fetch rate (32-bit): 62 billion fetches/sec
Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 15.5 Gigatexels/sec
Pixel fill rate: 6.2 Gigapixels/sec
Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 24.8 Gigasamples/sec
Memory clock speed: 1.0 GHz
Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 64 GB/sec
Maximum board power: 64 Watts
Idle board power: 15 Watts

Driver support scheduled for release in 2010.
Catalyst 9.10 driver or above is required to support ATI Eyefinity technology and to enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector.
ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for panning across three displays.
Requires application support for ATI Stream technology.
Digital rights management restrictions may apply.
ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card) and may require a specialized power supply.
ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo™ and ATI Stream are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products.
Upscaling subject to available monitor resolution.
Adobe Flash video acceleration and post-processing is supported for H.264-encoded content. Requires Adobe Flash Player 10.1 plug-in and Catalyst 9.11 or higher.
Blu-ray or HD DVD drive and HD monitor required.
Requires Blu-ray movie disc supporting dual 1080p streams.
Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components, including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, Blu-ray or HD DVD disc drive, multimedia application and computer operating system.
Some custom resolutions require user configuration.
Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display.
OpenCL compliant driver and SDK release scheduled for later in 2010

ATI Radeon™ HD 5670 System Requirements

Suggested ATI Radeon™ HD 5670 1GB GDDR5 System Requirements

PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
400 Watt or greater power supply recommended (500 Watt 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 5670 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (included) are required

NOTE: If the gold finger connectors have been removed from the 1GB board design, an ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable is not required to enable ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode.

Suggested ATI Radeon™ HD 5670 512MB GDDR5 System Requirements

PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
400 Watt or greater power supply recommended (500 Watt 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 5670 graphics card and an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard are required

ATI Radeon™ HD 5750 Graphics

2010-03-28T07:56:00.000-07:00

Now, more people than ever can experience real innovation in DirectX® 11 gaming with ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series graphics processors. Loaded with advanced technology, these GPUs have the power and premium features you need for fully immersive gameplay. 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 GPUs in this class to offer full support for DirectX 11, these GPUs enable rich, realistic visuals and explosive HD gaming performance so you can dominate the competition.

PRICE : $130 to $170
BUY : HERE

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 capabilities
Tap into the massive parallel processing power of your GPU with ATI Stream technology and tackle demanding tasks like video transcoding with incredible speed
Experience the speed, responsiveness and performance of ultra-high bandwidth GDDR5 memory
ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual-mode offers advanced scalability

ATI Radeon™ HD 5750 GPU Feature Summary

1.04 billion 40nm transistors
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
- 720 Stream Processing Units
- 36 Texture Units
- 64 Z/Stencil ROP Units
- 16 Color ROP Units
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
- 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
- Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling^4,5
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology⁶
- Dual GPU 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 multi-GPU configurations
Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP

Speeds & Feeds

Engine clock speed: 700 MHz
Processing power (single precision): 1.008 TeraFLOPS
Polygon throughput: 700M polygons/sec
Data fetch rate (32-bit): 100.8 billion fetches/sec
Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 25.2 Gigatexels/sec
Pixel fill rate: 11.2 Gigapixels/sec
Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 44.8 Gigasamples/sec
Memory clock speed: 1.15 GHz
Memory data rate: 4.6 Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 73.6 GB/sec
Maximum board power: 86 Watts
Idle board power: 16 Watts

Driver support scheduled for release in 2010
Driver version 8.66 (Catalyst 9.10) or above is required to support ATI Eyefinity technology and to enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector
ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for panning across three displays
Requires application support for ATI Stream technology
Digital rights management restrictions may apply
ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card) and may require a specialized power supply
ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo™ and ATI Stream are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products
Upscaling subject to available monitor resolution
Blu-ray or HD DVD drive and HD monitor required
Requires Blu-ray movie disc supporting dual 1080p streams
Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components, including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, Blu-ray or HD DVD disc drive, multimedia application and computer operating system.
Some custom resolutions require user configuration
Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display
OpenCL compliant driver and SDK release scheduled for later in 2010

ATI Radeon™ HD 5750 System Requirements

PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
450 Watt or greater power supply with one 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (600 Watt and two 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 5750 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (included) are required

ATI Radeon™ HD 5770 Graphics

2010-03-26T20:31:00.000-07:00

PRICE : $160-$181
BUY : HERE

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 capabilities
Tap into the massive parallel processing power of your GPU with ATI Stream technology and tackle demanding tasks like video transcoding with incredible speed
Experience the speed, responsiveness and performance of ultra-high bandwidth GDDR5 memory
ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual-mode offers advanced scalability

ATI Radeon™ HD 5770 GPU Feature Summary

1.04 billion 40nm transistors
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
- 800 Stream Processing Units
- 40 Texture Units
- 64 Z/Stencil ROP Units
- 16 Color ROP Units
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
- 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
- Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling^4,5
  - Native support for common video encoding instructions
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology⁶
- Dual GPU 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 multi-GPU configurations
Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP

Speeds & Feeds

Engine clock speed: 850 MHz
Processing power (single precision): 1.36 TeraFLOPS
Polygon throughput: 850M polygons/sec
Data fetch rate (32-bit): 136 billion fetches/sec
Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 34 Gigatexels/sec
Pixel fill rate: 13.6 Gigapixels/sec
Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 54.4 Gigasamples/sec
Memory clock speed: 1.2 GHz
Memory data rate: 4.8 Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 76.8 GB/sec
Maximum board power: 108 Watts
Idle board power: 18 Watts

Driver support scheduled for release in 2010
Driver version 8.66 (Catalyst 9.10) or above is required to support ATI Eyefinity technology and to enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector
ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for panning across three displays
Requires application support for ATI Stream technology
Digital rights management restrictions may apply
ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card) and may require a specialized power supply
ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo™ and ATI Stream are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products
Upscaling subject to available monitor resolution
Blu-ray or HD DVD drive and HD monitor required
Requires Blu-ray movie disc supporting dual 1080p streams
Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components, including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, Blu-ray or HD DVD disc drive, multimedia application and computer operating system.
Some custom resolutions require user configuration
Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display
OpenCL compliant driver and SDK release scheduled for later in 2010

ATI Radeon™ HD 5770 System Requirements

PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
450 Watt or greater power supply with one 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (600 Watt and two 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 5770 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (included) are required

ATI Radeon™ HD 5830 Graphics

2010-03-26T20:06:00.000-07:00

Prepare to experience a riveting high-definition gaming experience with ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series graphics processors. Expand your visual real estate across multiple 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 latest titles.

PRICE : $250

Features & Benefits
# With ATI Eyefinity technology get the ultimate immersive gaming experience innovative 'wrap around' multi-display capabilities
# Get unrivalled visual quality and intense gaming performance and for today and tomorrow with support for Microsoft® DirectX® 11
# Tap into the massive parallel processing power of your GPU with ATI Stream technology and tackle demanding tasks like video transcoding with incredible speed.
# 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 5830 GPU Feature Summary

2.15 billion 40nm transistors
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
- 1120 Stream Processing Units
- 56 Texture Units
- 64 Z/Stencil ROP Units
- 16 Color ROP Units
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 support
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 technology¹
- Three independent display controllers
  - Drive up to three displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays¹
- Display grouping
  - Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
ATI Stream acceleration technology
- OpenCL™ 1.0 support
- DirectCompute 11 support
- Double precision floating point processing support
- Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling^2,3
  - Native support for common video encoding instructions
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology⁴
- Dual, triple, and quad GPU scaling
- Dual-channel bridge interconnect
ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology⁵
- UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
- Advanced post-processing and scaling⁶
- 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, MPEG-2 and Adobe Flash⁷
- Dual-stream 1080p playback support^8,9
- DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
- Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP¹⁰
  - Max resolution: 2560x1600¹¹
- Integrated DisplayPort output
  - Max resolution: 2560x1600¹¹
- Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
  - Max resolution: 1920x1200¹¹
- Integrated VGA output
  - Max resolution: 2048x1536¹¹
- 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support¹²
- 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 technology⁵
- 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: 800 MHz
Processing power (single precision): 1.792 TeraFLOPS
Processing power (double precision): 358 GigaFLOPS
Polygon throughput: 800M polygons/sec
Data fetch rate (32-bit): 179.2 billion fetches/sec
Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 44.8 Gigatexels/sec
Pixel fill rate: 12.8 Gigapixels/sec
Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 51.2 Gigasamples/sec
Memory clock speed: 1 GHz
Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 128 GB/sec
Maximum board power: 175 Watts
Idle power: 25 Watts

ATI Radeon™ HD 5830 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 5800 Series graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (included) are required

www.amd.com

ATI Radeon™ HD 5850 Graphics

2010-03-25T00:19:00.000-07:00

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.

PRICE : $304 to $342
BUY     : HERE
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.

ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Graphics

2010-03-25T00:04:00.000-07:00

Prepare to experience a riveting high-definition gaming experience with ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 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.

PRICE : $410 to $412
BUY     : HERE

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 5870 GPU Feature Summary

2.15 billion 40nm transistors
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
- 1600 Stream Processing Units
- 80 Texture Units
- 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
- 32 Color ROP Units
GDDR5 interface with 153.6 GB/sec of memory bandwidth
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
- 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, 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: 850 MHz
Processing power (single precision): 2.72 TeraFLOPS
Processing power (double precision): 544 GigaFLOPS
Polygon throughput: 850M polygons/sec
Data fetch rate (32-bit): 272 billion fetches/sec
Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 68 Gigatexels/sec
Pixel fill rate: 27.2 Gigapixels/sec
Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 108.8 Gigasamples/sec
Memory clock speed: 1.2 GHz
Memory data rate: 4.8 Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 153.6 GB/sec
Maximum board power: 188 Watts
Idle board power: 27 Watts

ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 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 5870 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (included) are required

GeForce GTX 295

2010-03-24T22:07:00.000-07:00

FEATURES
PRICES : $529.99 - $569.99
BUY : HERE

2nd Generation NVIDIA® Unified Architecture
Second generation architecture delivers 50% more gaming performance over the first generation through enhanced processor cores that provide incredible shading horsepower.
Quad SLI Technology¹
Industry leading Quad NVIDIA SLI® technology offers amazing performance scaling by implementing 4-way AFR (Alternate Frame Rendering) for the world’s premier gaming solution under Windows Vista with solid, state-of-the-art drivers.
DirectX 10 Support
Microsoft® DirectX® 10 GPU with full Shader Model 4.0 support delivers unparalleled levels of graphics realism and film-quality effects for today’s hottest games.
CUDA Technology²
NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology unlocks the power of the GPU’s processor cores to accelerate the most demanding system tasks - such as video transcoding - delivering up to 20x performance over traditional CPUs.

PCI Express 2.0 Support
Designed for the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture offering the highest data transfer speeds for the most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications, while maintaining backwards compatibility with existing PCI Express motherboards for the broadest support.
SLI Multi-Monitor support
Switch seamlessly between multi-display desktop mode and full screen 3D gaming with SLI. And enjoy full multi-GPU support for dual-display capable 3D games such as World in Conflict, Supreme Commander Forged Alliance, and Flight Simulator X.
GigaThread™ Technology
Massively multi-threaded architecture supports thousands of independent, simultaneous threads, providing extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next-generation shader programs.
NVIDIA Lumenex™ Engine
Delivers stunning image quality and floating point accuracy at ultra-fast frame rates.
16x Anti-aliasing Technology
Lightning fast, high-quality anti-aliasing at up to 16x sample rates obliterates jagged edges.
128-bit floating point High Dynamic-Range (HDR) Lighting
Twice the precision of prior generations for incredibly realistic lighting effects—now with support for anti-aliasing.
OpenGL 2.1 Optimization and Support
Provides top-notch compatibility and performance for OpenGL applications.
Dual Dual-link DVI Support
Able to drive the industry’s largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560x1600 and with support for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP).³
HDMI Output
Support for HDMI output enables sending both high-definition video and audio signals to an HDTV via a single cable.
NVIDIA® PureVideo® HD Technology⁴
The combination of high-definition video decode acceleration and post-processing that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for movies and video.
Discrete, Programmable Video Processor
PureVideo is a discrete programmable processing core in NVIDIA GPUs that provides superb picture quality and ultra-smooth movies with 100% offload of H.264 video decoding from the CPU and significantly reduced power consumption.
Dual-stream Hardware Acceleration
Supports picture-in-picture content for the ultimate interactive Blu-ray movie experience.
Dynamic Contrast Enhancement & Color Stretch
Dynamically provides post-processing and optimization of High Definition movies for spectacular picture clarity.

SPECIFICATIONS

GPU Engine Specs:

CUDA Cores	480 ( 240 per GPU )
Graphics Clock (MHz)	576 MHz
Processor Clock (MHz)	1242 MHz
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec)	92.2

Memory Specs:

Memory Clock (MHz)	999
Standard Memory Config	1792 MB GDDR3 ( 896MB per GPU )
Memory Interface Width	896-bit ( 448-bit per GPU )
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)	223.8

Feature Support:

NVIDIA SLI®-ready	Quad
NVIDIA 3D Vision Ready
NVIDIA PureVideo® Technology	HD
NVIDIA PhysX™-ready
NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology
Microsoft DirectX	10
OpenGL	2.1
Certified for Windows 7

Display Support:

Maximum Digital Resolution	2560x1600
Maximum VGA Resolution	2048x1536
Standard Display Connectors	Two Dual Link DVI HDMI
Multi Monitor
HDCP
HDMI^*
Audio Input for HDMI	SPDIF

Standard Graphics Card Dimensions:

Height	4.376 inches (111 mm)
Length	10.5 inches (267 mm)
Width	Dual-slot

Thermal and Power Specs:

Maximum GPU Temperature (in C)	105 C
Maximum Graphics Card Power (W)	289 W
Minimum System Power Requirement (W)	680 W
Supplementary Power Connectors	6-pin & 8-pin

Download the latest drivers here.
Source : www.nvidia.com

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

2010-03-24T08:32:00.000-07:00

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

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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

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