The ATI RadeonHD5870 is now available, with support for DirectX11 and their new Eyefinity. Currently, the Eyefinity support is limited to 3 monitors, the “Eyefinity6” card is “coming soon”. So far the reviews are overwhelmingly positive, with comments like this from HardOCP:
Through all of this, Eyefinity, DX11, DirectCompute 11, OpenCL, the Radeon HD 5870 remains true to the focus of just being a desirable gaming video card. One of the most impressive “features” is the fact that it doubles performance, yet remains within the same power envelope as the previous generation. This is impressive. The fact that you can get all of this for around $379 makes it a really good value with a tremendous price/performance ratio compared to the previous generation.
I won’t bore you with details.. Check out one of these links for all the gory details and benchmarks you can stand.
- Read – AnandTech review
- Read – Driver Heaven review
- Read – HardOCP review
- Read – Hexus review
- Read – Hot Hardware review
- Read – PC Perspective review
- Read – Tech Report review
via ATI Radeon HD 5870 blazes onto the scene, receives approving nods.
The “Eyefinity6″ card is “coming soon”, which unconfirmed rumors from unconfirmed sources as being Novemebr.
Unconfirmed rumors from unconfirmed sources say that the unconfirmed launch date for NVidia’s GT300 is late November and that it will beat the performance of the AMD 5870. Given the unconfirmed rumors that the GT300 is experiencing low yields, my best guess is that NVidia does a soft launch.