• Big performance, small price: The ATI Radeon™ HD 5670 graphics card delivers up to 620 GigaFLOPS of compute power and GDDR5 memory, delivering unprecedented gaming performance for under USD $100 in the latest DirectX® 11 titles such as Codemaster’s Colin McRae™: DiRT® 2™, EA Phenomic’s BattleForge™ , GSC Game World’s S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat™ and Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2 as well as DirectX® 9, DirectX® 10, DirectX® 10.1 and OpenGL titles. In some of today’s most popular games, the ATI Radeon™ HD 5670 graphics processor showed a more than 20 percent performance improvement over the closest competing product in its class.³
• Panoramic computing hits the mainstream: The latest in ATI Eyefinity technology enables up to three displays to be used with a single ATI Radeon™ HD 5670 graphics card4, delivering the most immersive gaming experience with a graphics card for under $100.
• Accelerate with ATI Stream technology: ATI Stream technology speeds up video transcoding and improves video playback performance with applications such as Adobe Flash, and helps to deliver video enhancements that produce better visual quality with sharper, more vibrant images.²
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“AMD recently celebrated the shipment of its two millionth DirectX 11 graphics chip. AMD has already enabled DirectX® 11 support for the majority of the PC market and today’s introduction of the ATI Radeon™ HD 5670 graphics card is yet another clear indication of AMD’s commitment to address the strong market demand for DirectX 11-capable graphics cards,” said Matt Skynner, vice president and general manager, AMD Graphics Group. “Combined with the successful launches of the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series, AMD has defined the DirectX 11 gaming experience like no other, bringing graphics innovations like ATI Eyefinity technology and ATI Stream technology to millions of consumers worldwide.”

“DICE prides itself on delivering the best possible experience to gamers, and ATI Radeon™ graphics cards help us to do that with Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2 through the use of DirectX® 11 and our Frostbite engine,” said Johan Andersson. “The fact that AMD has now shipped two million DirectX® 11 graphics processors demonstrates how excited gamers are by the awesome performance and feature set of the latest ATI Radeon™ products.”

If you wish to read more on the performance of the ATI Radeon HD 5670, check out the detailed Hardware Canucks review of the Sapphire HD 5670 1GB.

AMD/ATI is reported to be soldifying their position in the graphics card market, by slotting in yet another video card to bridge the gap between the 128bit HD 5700 series and the powerful HD 5850 and up.

The ATI Radeon HD 5830 is poised to come in under the $200 price range to offer a very affordable DX11 capable gaming experience to users not wanting to drop the coin on the $300 and above cards.

This gap is currently occupied by the previous generation HD 4890 which will most likely be phased out with the HD 5830′s introduction.

Not much is know about the specs of this rumoured addition, but it is highly likely it will be based on the 40nm Cypress series GPU, featuring GDDR5 with a 256bit bus like the other HD 5800′s.  Details such as shader’s and clock speed are still unclear but we will be sure to report it when new information comes to light.

The reported official launch date is set for January 25th

As AMD flaunts a milestone achievement, NVIDIA is left with nothing to fire back.

At the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES),  AMD  announced the shipment of its two millionth DirectX 11-capable graphics processor to its technology partners, cementing AMD graphics as the standard for DirectX 11 computing.  This millions-shipped milestone comes just three months after the launch of the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series, the first DirectX 11-capable graphics products from AMD.  The fast pace with which AMD delivered two million next-generation GPUs is a result of an aggressive execution of the AMD “Sweet Spot” graphics strategy which positioned the company to more rapidly bring DirectX 11 products to market across high-volume segments and popular price points, in combination with the positive reception of AMD’s DirectX 11-capable graphics technology from PC users worldwide.

“Today’s milestone underscores the ingenuity and innovation that AMD poured into the DirectX 11-capable ATI Radeon™ Premium Graphics products,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, Products Group, AMD.  “Fifteen weeks ago we introduced the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series graphics cards to the world, the first to support DirectX 11 and powerful capabilities like ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology, with support for Direct Compute 11.  Over the course of the last few months, we’ve shipped tens of thousands of DirectX 11-capable graphics processors a week to technology partners who in turn put them into consumers’ hands.  With this week’s introduction of the DirectX 11-capable notebook counterparts to our desktop family in the ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5000 series, an even larger base of users will enjoy the best visual computing experience available today.”

“Being first to market with new technology and initiatives gives a company a strong lead, and if properly managed, a sustainable advantage,” said Dr. Jon Peddie, founder and president, Jon Peddie Research. “AMD has been first to market with DirectX 11 graphics products, and as a result, all of the new DirectX 11 games have used those products as the basis for their development.  This gives AMD a substantial advantage.”

AMD today introduced its lineup of next-generation DirectX 11-capable ATI Mobility Radeon Premium graphics, including ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 graphics, the highest performance graphics for notebooks in the world.

The entire family of DirectX 11-capable graphics consists of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5700, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5600 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 series graphics. This top-to-bottom family of Direct 11-capable notebook graphics introduces compelling new features including ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology, bringing powerful visual gaming and computing innovation to the notebook PC. Notebooks featuring the new graphics technology are previewed at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in the VISION Experience Center, located in the Grand Lobby (GL-8 and GL-10) of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

“Six months ago AMD claimed the title of undisputed technology leader in desktop graphics, and now we also offer powerful mobile graphics processors for notebooks to go with our market leadership in that segment,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, Products Group, AMD. “Once again, AMD changes the game both in terms of performance and experience. AMD innovations now give notebook users full DirectX 11 support, eye-opening ATI Eyefinity technology, superb HD multimedia capabilities, and ATI Stream technology designed to help optimize Windows 7 notebook performance.”

CLICK HERE FOR ADDITIONAL SPECS AND INFO

The next-generation family of DirectX 11-capable ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series graphics represents a powerful upgrade for OEMs to existing and upcoming 2009 AMD Mainstream and 2nd Generation Ultrathin notebook platforms, as well as next-generation “Danube” mainstream and “Nile” ultrathin notebook platforms scheduled to launch in the first half of 2010. These graphics innovations are designed to let you:

Accelerate your mobile performance:

The DirectX 11-capable ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series graphics lineup is the first and only notebook graphics technology to support DirectCompute 11, allowing users to take full advantage of Windows 7, the first compute-capable operating system.

Enjoy new features, functionality and improved performance in top media, entertainment and productivity applications made possible by ATI Stream technology.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 series (and higher) graphics fully support both DirectX 11 and OpenCL, enabling broad application acceleration support today and tomorrow.

Maximize your mobile lifestyle

ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology enables super high resolution panoramic computing for notebooks, allowing mobile users to seamlessly harness up to six monitors for improved gaming, productivity, and entertainment.

Enjoy enhanced multimedia capabilities through Unified Video Decoder 2 technology, for upscaling beyond 1080p and dual 1080p decoding of Blu-ray video and HD streams.

Benefit from state-of-the-art home theatre entertainment technologies including HDMI 1.3a Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, and advanced display quality from HDMI 1.3a Deep Color & x.v.Color for a theater-class entertainment experience.

Dominate your games with DirectX 11:

Enjoy intense gaming performance, unrivalled visual quality, and an overall superior HD gaming experience on HD-capable monitors with DirectX 11 (as compared to DirectX 10.1).

Realize the ultimate in game compatibility, as the DirectX 11 API was developed on AMD graphics hardware and all initial DirectX 11 games were developed or continue to be developed on AMD’s DirectX 11-capable hardware.

More than 20 DirectX 11 games are currently in development, with gamers already enjoying the incredible DirectX 11 experience offered by titles such as EA Phenomic’s BattleForge, GSC Gameworld’s S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, and Codemasters’ Colin McRae: DiRT 2.

The next-generation DirectX 11-capable family of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series graphics is two generations ahead of DirectX 10.0 support found in competing mobile graphics solutions.

Exceptional Power Efficiency:

Benefit from four times the performance-per-watt efficiency over the last two generations of ATI Mobility Radeon Premium graphics thanks to improved processor design and a new 40nm process

Experience dramatically lower idle power, saving battery power when the graphics processor isn’t needed

Next-generation Vari-Bright technology used for optimizing notebook display brightness delivers up to 50 percent power savings over the previous generation’s software based approach

Platform independent graphics switching technology helps to save power while offering efficient switching options

GDDR5 Advanced Memory Support delivers double the memory bandwidth over previous generation AMD discrete graphics

Industry Quotes:

“ASUS has worked closely with AMD for years to ensure that we’re collaborating to bring the newest and most compelling notebook technologies to our customers first, and with the DirectX 11-capable family of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series graphics and the ASUS G73 and new N series of notebooks, we’re continuing that leadership,” said P.C. Wang, Corporate Vice President & General Manager, Notebook Business Unit, System Business Group, ASUS.

“Today’s consumers demand more of their notebooks, and to meet those changing needs, MSI continually strives to offer a wide variety of notebooks infused with leading technologies,” said Sam Chern, Notebook Marketing Director, MSI. “Next-generation ATI Mobility Radeon Premium graphics are a perfect solution, introducing industry first features such as DirectX 11 gaming support that help us better address the full range of customers at affordable prices.”

Notebooks with DirectX 11-capable ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series graphics are scheduled to be available in the first half of 2010.

ATI has pulled a rabbit out of their hats today by releasing not only their usual monthly update with the 9.12 WHQL drivers but have also release a hotfix that brings additional functionality to certain series of cards.

While the claimed performance improvements are minimal for single GPU configurations, one of the main highlights is the addition of OpenCL functionality and DirectCompute support for 4800 and 4700 series of cards.  Another addition is the compatibility of Crossfire solutions with Eyefinity which is something many people have been waiting for.

All in all, this looks like one heck of a driver release!  Jump to the section after the download links for a full breakdown of the fixes and additions in this release.

9.12 drivers can be downloaded HERE

The 9.12 Hotfix can be downloaded HERE

9.12 RELEASE NOTES

ATI Catalyst™ support for DirectCompute 10.1

This release of ATI Catalyst provides full support for DirectCompute 10.1 for the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4700 Series for both single card and configurations supporting ATI CrossFireX™ technology.

OpenGL 3.2 extension support

This release of ATI Catalyst provides support for OpenGL 3.2 extension support on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series GPUs.
The following is a list of OpenGL™ 3.2 features and extensions added in ATI Catalyst 9.12:

- Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.50.
– BGRA vertex component ordering (GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra).
– Drawing commands allowing modification of the base vertex index (GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex).
– Shader fragment coordinate convention control (GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions).
– Provoking vertex control (GL_ARB_provoking_vertex).
– Seamless cube map filtering (GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map).
– Multisampled textures and texture samplers for specific sample locations (GL_ARB_texture_multisample).
– Fragment depth clamping (GL_ARB_depth_clamp).
– Geometry shaders (GL_ARB_geometry_shader4).
– Fence sync objects (GL_ARB_sync).
– transform_feedback2
– texture_cubemap_array

Highlights of the ATI Catalyst 9.12 driver release for Linux include:

Support for new Linux operating systems

This release of ATI Catalyst driver release for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:

RedFlag DT6.0 SP3
SLED and SLES 10SP3

ATI Catalyst Control Center™ –  Linux Edition:  Displays pages: user interface enhancements

This release of ATI Catalyst driver release for Linux introduces support for a number of new display features found in the ATI Catalyst Control Center –  Linux Edition, highlights include:

- CRT/VGA settings
– TV settings
– Component Video settings
– Support for display projectors
– New Size and Position page
– New HDTV page
– New option for “Automatic setting for Size and Position adjustment”
– New image quality settings:  “flicker removal” and “S-Video/Composite sharpness”
– New Scaling Options page – new Overscan / Underscan controls
– New custom mode support for 576 modes
– Enables quick display configuration of display projectors

9.12 HOTFIX RELEASE NOTES

Support for the OpenCL™ GPU component of the ATI Stream SDK v2.0

The ATI Catalyst 9.12 hotfix release provides full support for GPU acceleration of OpenCL when used in conjunction with the ATI Stream SDK v2.0.   This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series and the AMD FireStream™ 9200 Series of products.

For more information about ATI Stream technology and OpenCL, please visit. http://www.amd.com/stream

Support for ATI CrossFireX™ technology on configurations employing ATI Eyefinity technology configurations

The ATI Catalyst 9.12 hotfix release provides support for ATI CrossFireX™ technology on configurations employing ATI Eyefinity technology, allowing users to take advantage of their additional GPUs for increased gaming performance when driving high resolution displays

Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series

Support for DisplayPort audio

The ATI Catalyst 9.12 hotfix release adds support for DisplayPort audio for DisplayPort panels

Fixes the following issues:

-  Resident Evil 5 – Performance drop during the opening cinematic
-  Call of Duty Modern Warfare – Negative performance observed with a configuration supporting  ATI CrossFireX™ technology when using the thermal scope
-  Wheelman – Game freezes while loading the game menu
-  Flashing in various OpenGL titles – City of Heroes, Enemy Territories: Quake Wars, and Chronicles of Riddick
-  Heaven benchmark (DirectX 9 mode) – Grass flicker and white boarders observed around the edges

The dire situation over at the TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) in their production of 40nm chips has been evident since the launch of the ATI 5800 series graphics card, and unfortunately reports indicate it is unlikely to be resolved any time soon.

A report from Fudzilla indicates that the situation over the yields of 40nm production are unlikely to improve anytime in the near future. Currently production is sitting at approximately 50%, which is pitiful for a process that has been in production for nearly a year. It is indicated, that by this point in time, successful production should be sitting at nearly 90%.

TSMC had stated it would resolve the issues by the end of this quarter (Q4 2009), clearly an empty promise,  and they now expect that the shortage will carry through until at least Q1 of 2010.

Currently ATI is the only company with a heavy reliance on 40nm chips for a retail product (their 5800 series), however NVIDIA is rumoured to be launching their Fermi based graphics cards (also manufactured on the 40nm process) in early 2010 as well; placing even more strain on the clearly over burdened manufacturing sector.

What this means for consumers, is an unlikely end to the extreme shortage of the ATI 5800 series video cards – arguably the most in demand GPU on the market – any time before April of next year. Along with this, those holding out for NVIDIA to play its hand, may also be in for disappointment regarding stock levels when the retail release rolls around.

With the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 5970 video card only hours old, the official drivers with support for the new card, as well as fixes for existing cards have been released.

The drivers include two new and fresh features, but nothing notable for game or graphical improvements;

GPU Acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta

This release of ATI Catalyst™ supports the new Hardware Acceleration features of
Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta for video encoded in the H.264 format. Adobe Flash Player
10.1 Beta introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding to deliver smooth video
playback, reduce system resource utilization, and preserve battery life. Adobe Flash
Player 10.1 Beta is expected to be available for download from Adobe Labs
(labs.adobe.com) before the end of the year. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon
HD 5800, ATI Radeon HD 5700 and ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series of products.

High Quality downscaling for video transcoding MSE

This release of ATI Catalyst™ includes an enhancement for the ATI Video converter for
users transcoding high quality interlaced content (1920x1080i @60i videos) down to
small resolution progressive content (320×240 @30p – iPod videos as an example), by
maintaining high visual quality when down-scaling by a significant amount and
converting interlaced video content to progressive.

Download Drivers:

Windows 7 64bit

Windows 7 32bit

Windows Vista 64bit

Windows Vista 32bit

Windows XP x64

Windows XP

Link below are the respective manufacturer’s and more will be added as their announcements trickle into the mailbox.

Manufacturers:

• Gigabyte
• MSI
• XFX
• Sapphire
• Powercolor
• HIS

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Designed to support the most demanding PC games at ultra-high resolutions and image quality settings, the ATI Radeon HD 5970 has unlocked overclocking potential, granting access to every bit of power the card has to offer through ATI Overdrive technology. Now shipping from retailers and available in the channel, the ATI Radeon HD 5970 also launches today in new Alienware Area-51, Area-51 ALX and Aurora desktop PCs.

Record-breaking overclocking capabilities take Dragon Platform technology to the forefront for users that demand the utmost control in performance tuning. The unrivaled overclocking capabilities of the ATI Radeon HD 5970 are enabled by the unique design of the card, which features advanced fan and vapor chamber technologies and a fully vented exhaust to keep the card cool and ensure overclocking headroom using ATI Overdrive technology. The formidable combination of AMD Phenom II processors, AMD 7-Series chipsets, and ATI Radeon HD graphics deliver comprehensive tuning, immersive entertainment, and outstanding value.

Enthusiasts can expand their field of view, ATI Radeon HD 5970, driving up to three displays at once, delivering an unmatched maximum resolution of 7680×1600 and creating an unparalleled game play experience.3 For the first time ever, ATI CrossFireX technology leverages the power of multiple graphics processors to deliver even more game performance in 20 of today’s popular titles when using ATI Eyefinity technology, with more to come.

The ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics card delivers nearly 5 TeraFLOPS of compute power, ensuring superior performance in the latest DirectX 11 games, as well as in previous versions of DirectX and OpenGL titles. With the world’s most powerful graphics core built on 40nm process technology harnessing up to 3,200 stream processors, gamers can enjoy DirectX 11 games now, such as EA Phenomic’s BattleForge and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:Call of Pripyat from GSC Game World, with many more titles on the way, including:

• Battlefield Bad Company 2 from EA DICE
• DiRT 2 from Codemasters, arriving December 1, 2009,
• Aliens vs. Predator from Rebellion,
• Update to The Lord of the Rings Online from Turbine,
• Update to Dungeons and Dragons Online Eberron Unlimited from Turbine.
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New features and functionality of ATI Stream technology allow users to harness the ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics card to enhance their computing experience, helping to improve the performance of enabled media, entertainment and productivity applications. ATI Stream technology and the HD 5970 support both Direct Compute 11 and OpenCL industry standards for application acceleration.

Delivering full-fledged performance when needed, the ATI Radeon HD 5970 also leads in power efficiency by automatically powering down unused GPU resources when not in use, resulting in idle desktop power consumption as low as 42 watts.

The ATI Radeon HD 5970 is supported by a wide range of add-in-board companies, including ASK, Asus, Club 3D, Diamond, Gigabyte, High Tech, MSI, Sapphire, Tul/Power Color, Visiontek and XFX.

“With the arrival of the ATI Radeon HD 5970, the fastest graphics card in the world, we’ve cemented AMD as the unquestioned graphics leader,” said Matt Skynner, vice president and general manager, AMD Graphics Group. “With the holiday shopping season right around the corner, the new card, coupled with the awesome power of ATI Eyefinity technology, is the ultimate setup for serious gamers.”

“The extraordinary performance of the ATI Radeon HD 5970 is a perfect match for the Alienware Area-51, Area-51 ALX and Aurora desktops,” said Frank Azor, senior product planning manager, Dell Gaming. “By offering this level of graphics capability as well as the visual and performance enhancements made possible by DirectX 11 hardware, gamers will benefit from enhanced image quality enabling an incredibly intense gaming experience.”

The full Hardware Canucks Review can be read here.

Despite the fact that ATI had a major product launch nearly a month ago, their first set of updated drivers since the launch has only just been released.

The Catalyst 9.10 drivers cropped up for download on the ATI website only moments ago and hopefully, they should help to alleviate any problems owners of the new ATI GPU’s have been experiencing.

New Features:

Official ATI Catalyst WHQL release supporting ATI Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs

• ATI Catalyst 9.10 now includes full GPU support for the award winning ATI HD Radeon 5800 series GPUS!

Super Sample Anti-Aliasing for the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

• ATI Catalyst 9.10 provides support for a new Anti-Aliasing method on the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series.  Users can now experience the high level of anti-aliasing image quality using Super Sampling anti-aliasing while maintaining good performance levels. 

Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 9.10 release for Linux includes:

New Features

Support for new Linux operating systems

• • This release of ATI Catalyst driver for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
    • Ubuntu 9.10 early look support

Highlights of resolved issues

• Ghostbusters video game no longer flickers between desktop and game play when anti-aliasing is set to 8X and game resolution set to 2560×1600
• Enabling Screen Space Ambient Occlusion option in “Riddick 2 Dark Athena” no longer causes the game to fail under Multi-GPU configurations
• Severe flickering no longer observed while running 3D games/samples on specific HDMI displays with configurations using ATI CrossFireX™ technology in tri and quad modes
• Desktop flashing no longer observed after driver installation and reboot with systems configured with Radeon ASIC in the primary PCIe slot and ATI Fire Stream™ ASIC in the secondary PCIe slot
• “Combat Mission Shock Force” no longer fails after a duration of game play

• Underscan/Overscan settings for TV can now be applied from the ATI Catalyst Control Center – TV Properties Adjustments page
• Changes to the “All Settings” and “Basic Quality” pages in ATI Catalyst Control Center - Avivo™ Video will now be retained after reboot

Download:

Release Notes

Full Catalyst Software Suite (Recommended) ^{(?) (?)}

• Windows 7 32-bit
• Windows Vista 32-bit
• Windows XP 32-bit
• Windows 7 64-bit
• Windows Vista 64-bit
• Windows XP 64-bit

The HD 5800 series last month, the HD 5700 series last week, and the HD 5900 series… on the way.

Reports around the web have picked up on a very small little piece if code in the latest OpenCL 1.1 drivers released with the ATI Steam SDK 2.0 beta yesterday.  Amidst strings of instruction code, along with the HD 5700 & 5800 series, is listed support for the “ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series”.

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“ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_6898
“ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series ” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_6899
“ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_689C
“ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series ” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_689D
“EG CEDAR” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_68E8
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“EG CEDAR ” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_68FE
“EG REDWOOD” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_68C8
“EG REDWOOD ” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_68C9
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“EG REDWOOD ” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_68D9
“EG REDWOOD ” = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_68DE

This “5900 Series” is likely to be the name for what has commonly been referred to as “Hemlock” , the dual Cypress cards seemingly mislabelled as 5870X2 and 5850X2 pictured here. The cards are rumoured to receive the labels of HD 5970 and HD 5950. The script also alludes to the Juniper chip offshoots, Redwood and Cedar, which clearly are not yet progressed enough to be titled.

We have shown that the cards are in fact real and in the final stages of development, but ATI appears to be holding back in order to see what NVIDIA has in store, and counter Fermi closer to its release. If you looked at the benchmarks and thought the 5870 was powerful, well “you ain’t seen nothing yet”.

GIGABYTE  is pleased to announce the latest GV-R5700 series graphics cards.  GIGABYTE’s GV-R577D5-1GD-B and GV-R575D5-1GD are built on the highly anticipated ATI RadeonTM HD 5700 Series GPUs ─which utilizes the latest 826 million transistors on 40nm fabrication process and GDDR5 memory.

GIGABYTE HD 5700 Series graphics cards provide Microsoft DirectX 11, ATI Eyefinity Technology, ATI Stream technology, Quad mode ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU support, UDV 2 and PowerPlay, and offer an incredibly immersive HD gaming experience and unrivaled performance.

The GIGABYTE HD 5700 Series graphics cards feature ATI’s latest 2nd Generation TeraScale graphics engine, boasting the power of more than 2 teraFLOPS with 800 and 720 stream processors respectively. With 1GB GDDR5 memory, the GIGABYTE HD 5700 Series provides twice the data per pin of GDDR3 memory at the same clock speeds. Utilizing ATI Eyefinity Technology, each gamer can run up to 3 displays from a single graphics board and expand the field of view across all displays. Gamers can enjoy the ultimate gaming experience with innovative “wrap around” multi-display capabilities with ATI Eyefinity Technology. Furthermore, benefiting from ATI Stream Technology, end-users can easily unleash the massive parallel processing power of GPU for physics, artificial intelligence, stream computing and ray tracing calculations, and tackle demanding tasks like video transcoding with incredible speed.

In addition, GIGABYTE HD 5700 Series graphics cards fully support for Microsoft DirectX® 11 for life-like realism and stunning 3D gaming effects. Gamers can get striking 3D visual effects and dynamic interactivity with DirectX 11 support, including features like Tessellation, HDR Texture Compression, Multi-threading and DirectCompute. Microsoft DirectX® 11 brings new levels of visual realism to gaming on the PC and gamers can dominate the competition with GIGABYTE GV-R5700 Series graphics cards.

In order to provide the best digital audio/video interconnection between a computer and display monitor or home-theater system, the GIGABYTE HD 5700 Series graphics cards are capable of outputting DispalyPort signals. The DisplayPort interface can support higher resolutions, richer color depth, and increased refresh rate performance, delivering 10.8Gbps of bandwidth over previous generations of connectivity options such as DVI, LVDS and VGA. With added DisplayPort connectivity on the GIGABYTE HD 5700 Series graphics cards, PC gamers are able to play all the latest games on their large-screen home theater displays, providing an audio and visual experience unmatched by any of today’s console gaming systems. Furthermore, the GIGABYTE GV-R5700 Series are equipped with ATI PowerPlay™ technology for breakthrough power and consumption, maximizing performance per watt by delivering the highest level of high performance when needed and conserving power when the demand on the GPU is low.

AMD ATI has officially released its second wave of Evergreen based video cards and they look to bring both gaming and ATI’s latest technologies to those not willing to pawn off organs for hardware.

Both the HD 5770 and HD 5750 were released globally this morning, and our very own Michael “SKYMTL” Hoenig has done an excellent work up on both cards, including a overclocking special by Asus:

XFX Radeon HD 5770 Video Card Review

XFX Radeon HD 5750 Review

ASUS Radeon HD 5770 1GB Voltage Tweak Edition Review

The cards are the first of the 40nm Juniper lineup,  boasting an impressive 1.04 billion transistors and come in a 512MB or 1GB GDDR5 variant with 128-bit memory bus. The HD 5770 is the premier model with 800 stream processors and clock speeds of 800MHz core and 1200MHz memory. The HD 5750 features 720 stream processors and clocks speeds of 700MHz core and 1150MHz memory. Both cards have impressively low power consumption, being claimed at a max of 18W idle and a 108w at full load.

For comparison’s sake, the Radeon HD 4890 released in April’ 09 and based on the R700 chip, only features 956 million transistors, 800 shaders and core/memory speeds of 850MHz/975MHz.

ATI has also include their new Eyefinity technology for both cards, making them a great low cost solution for users simply want to utilize this feature. The cards will allow for connection of three monitors of up to a 2560×1600 resolution, stitching them into a single display.

The cards are currently available on many retailer shelves for a price of $159 USD for the HD 5770 and $129 or $109 for the HD 5750 1GB and 512MB versions respectively.

A member of Chinese website MyMyPC, put an Asus HD 5770 to the test, and ran it through a variety of benchmarks. The test system used was an AMD Phenom II X4 945 with 4 GB of DDR3 memory operating on Windows 7 64-bit. While strangely, the CPU-Z screenshots in the photo show the CPU running at a touch over 800MHz, the results line up with where most analysts have put the cards performance.

Overall the numbers look very promising, lumping the card in with the NVIDIA GTX 260 & 275, and ATI’s Radeon HD 4890, it keeps exactly in line with all of them in 3DMark06, and only slightly lags behind the GTX 275 & HD4890 in 3DMark Vantage.

The expected release day is rumoured to stumbled around by the end of October making for quite the successful fall and holiday season lineup for ATI… and what is likely to be a very bleak Christmas for NVIDIA.

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It would be safe to assume that the official announcement is close, but pictures of the ATI Radeon HD 5770, a graphics card targeted for mainstream users, has be captured and released a tad early.

The card is a part of the Evergreen family, codenamed Juniper and based on the same 40nm technology found in the HD 5800 series lineup. The card is slightly less powerful with 1120 Stream Processors,  a core frequency of 825 MHz  and 1GB of GDDR5 memory running at 4600 MHz with a 128-bit memory interface. The card supports both DirectX 11 and CrossFireX.

While the length has been shortened considerably from the 11″ monster of the HD 5870, it still has a dual slot cooler and on the back  retains the dual DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. Keeping the DisplayPort option makes this an excellent choice for regular workstation or budget users wanting utilize the triple monitor capabilities, but not play or only do only modest gaming.

The card was also captured posted for sale at a European retailer for 149.99 euro’s, with a VAT of 19%, meaning that we can almost guarantee that the expected North American retail price with be under the $200 price point.

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Players of the latest smash hit, Batman: Arkham Asylum have received a visual treat with its stunning graphics and immersive gameplay, but recently gamers picked up on the fact that those with NVIDIA GPU’s may be a little more privileged than those on the ATI side of the tracks; having the ability to natively enable and adjust AA (Anti-Aliasing).

ATI’s fans cried foul, and this was backed by ATI’s Ian McNaughton in his company blog post, with claims that due to NVIDIA’s backing of the game “the in-game AA option was removed when ATI cards are detected” thus causing unfair results when benchmarked and limiting the owners of ATI graphics cards to poorer visuals.

This was confirmed by AMD testing through alterting the game to not detect ATI id’s: “By tricking the application, we were able to get in-game AA option where our performance was significantly enhanced. This option is not available for the retail game as there is a secure rom.”

AA is not completely unavailable to ATI users however, it can be enabled and controlled through the Catalyst Control centre. “The advantage of in-game AA is that the engine can run AA selectively on scenes whereas Forced AA in CCC is required to use brute force to apply AA on every scene and object, requiring much more work.” says Ian McNaughton.

The game was developed under NVIDIA’s “The Way It’s Meant to Be Played” title and the developers chose to take advantage of NVIDIA’s PhysX and 3D Vision technology, so there is some optimization, however NVIDIA vehemently denies using its clout to purposefully shut out ATI users from the full experience. Instead they call to attention ATI’s lack of foresight in optimizing and being prepared for one of the year’s biggest titles, stating that AMD is the one who left their own customers stranded.

With such harsh accuations by ATI being put forward, Hardware Canucks contacted NVIDIA to see if we could get a response to the dispute. NVIDIA replied with a statement  that may shed some light on the matter, and calls out to AMD to get on the ball with emerging technologies and game development.

“A representative of AMD recently claimed that NVIDIA interfered with anti-aliasing (AA) support for Batman: Arkham Asylum on AMD cards. They also claimed that NVIDIA’s The Way It’s Meant to be Played Program prevents AMD from working with developers for those games.

Both of these claims are NOT true. Batman is based on the Unreal Engine 3, which does not natively support anti-aliasing. We worked closely with Eidos to add AA and QA the feature on GeForce. Nothing prevented AMD from doing the same thing.

Games in The Way It’s Meant to be Played are not exclusive to NVIDIA. AMD can also contact developers and work with them.

We are proud of the work we do in The Way It’s Meant to be Played. We work hard to deliver kickass, game-changing features in PC games like PhysX, AA, and 3D Vision for games like Batman.If AMD wants to deliver innovation for PC games then we encourage them to roll up their sleeves and do the same.”

As such, this morning AMD has opened up a hotfixed driver package to the public, to tide owners over until the release of the Catalyst 9.10 which should bring full compatibility under one driver.  The fix is intended for Vista and Windows 7, available in both 32bit and 64bit flavours. It supports both the HD 5870 and HD 5850

It can be downloaded directly from AMD here:

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATIRadeonHD5800seriesrecommendedgraphicsdriver.aspx

ASUS launched the new ASUS EAH5870/2DIS/1GD5 and EAH5850/2DIS/1GD5. The first in the world to utilize Voltage Tweak technology, these graphics cards enable users to boost GPU voltages via the SmartDoctor application to enjoy up to a 38% improvement in performance.

Both graphics cards support Microsoft DirectX 11  and Windows 7 to provide users with the most intense gaming experience. The latest 40nm process and GDDR5 memory technologies are also utilized to deliver faster processing times and general system performance. Users can even run up to three displays from a single graphics card, thanks to the native DisplayPort and Eyefinity technology. The ASUS EAH5800 Series comes specially bundled with DiRT 2 —by far the most anticipated DirectX 11  game—pushing the boundaries of immersive gaming with true-to-life visual realism and effects.

Performance Boosts with Voltage Tweak and Extreme Overclocking with SmartDoctor

The ASUS EAH5870/2DIS/1GD5 and EAH5850/2DIS/1GD5 are equipped with Voltage Tweak technology, as part of the SmartDoctor application. It enables users to raise GPU voltages from 1.15V to 1.35V and from 1.088V to 1.4V respectively, boosting GPU and memory clock performance from 850 / 725 MHz to 1035 / 1050 MHz and from 4800 / 4000 MHz to 5200 / 5200 MHz respectively. Such extreme performance upgrades raise the EAH5870 and EAH5850’s 3DMark Vantage Extreme Preset score from 8,087 to 9,252 and from 6501 to 8987—an unbelievable 17% and 38% improvement compared to other reference designed boards*. Gamers and overclockers can also benefit from ASUS SmartDoctor, the world’s first overclocking utility that allows the tweaking of GPU voltages on the EAH5800 Series graphics cards. ASUS SmartDoctor enables users to boost both voltages and overall performance with just a few clicks—without the hassle of flashing the BIOS or running the risk of damaging the graphics card.

Taking Graphics Further with Windows 7, DirectX 11 and DiRT 2

With the ASUS EAH5800 Series graphics cards’ support for DirectX 11 , it is now possible for users to enjoy new levels of visual realism while playing games and watching videos on the PC. Innovations such as HDR Texture Compression, DirectCompute and Tessellation are engineered to take advantage of all the graphical features within the new Windows  7 operating system. What’s more, the ASUS EAH5800 Series is available in a special bundle, featuring the best in off-road racing—Colin McRae: DiRT  2. Colin McRae: DiRT  2 is one of the most anticipated racing games of the year. It takes full advantage of DirectX 11 , adding realism to the racing environment. Hardware tessellation improves the appearance of water and other surfaces, as well as crowd animations. Utilizing the EGO Engine, DiRT  2 sets the world of virtual rallying alight, a definite must-have for high adrenaline off-road racing on the PC.

Enhanced Processor and Memory Performance via 40nm Process and GDDR5 Memory Technologies

The ASUS EAH5800 Series graphics cards boast 40nm process technology to provide better system performance while using less power, thanks to highly efficient transistors. With advanced GDDR5 memory technology—enabling up to twice the bandwidth per pin as compared to GDDR3 memory—users can now experience the speed, responsiveness and performance of ultra-high bandwidth for processor-intensive multitasking and gaming.

Extend the View across Three Displays with Eyefinity Technology and Native DisplayPort

The ASUS EAH5800 Series graphics cards feature Eyefinity technology and native DisplayPort, allowing users to expand the field of view across up to three displays**. This allows for more detail than ever before with innovative “wrap around” capabilities that deliver an incredibly intense gaming experience, enhancing the feeling of being in the game.