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Radeon HD 5970

Specifications of the ATI Radeon HD 5970 GPU


ATI Radeon HD 5970 is a desktop Graphics Processing Unit, that makes use of TeraScale 2 Unified Processing architecture and is manufactured on 40 nm technology. The GPU was released in November 2009. The card has graphics clocked at 725 MHz. Furthermore, it has 3200 stream processors, 64 color ROPs, along with 160 texture units. The Radeon HD 5970 comes with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory. The memory utilizes 256 bit bus, and runs at 1 GHz. This allows the card to have 256 GB/s memory bandwidth. The GPU supports PCI Express 2.1 interface, and requires 2 motherboard slots. This model needs up to 294 Watt of power. To boost ATI Radeon HD 5970 3D graphics and gaming performance, it can be paired with another graphics card in crossfire mode.

Please see below for detailed specifications of the ATI Radeon HD 5970 GPU.

Name / Brand / Architecture

Manufacturer:ATI
Model:Radeon HD 5970
Reference card?:Yes
Target market segment:Desktop
Die name:2 x Hemlock XT (RV870)
Architecture:TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
Fabrication process:40 nm
Transistors:2 x 2.154 billion
Bus interface:PCI-E 2.1 x 16
Launch date:November 2009

Frequency

Graphics clock:725 MHz

Memory specifications

Memory size:2 x 1 GB
Memory type:GDDR5
Memory clock:1000 MHz
Memory clock (effective):4 GHz
Memory interface width:2 x **-bit
Memory bandwidth:** GB/s

Cores / Texture

Color ROPs:2 x 32
Z/Stencil ROPs:2 x 128
Stream processors:2 x 1600
Texture units:2 x 80
RAMDACs:400 MHz
Decoders:Adobe Flash
DivX
H.2**
MPEG 1
MPEG-2
VC-1

SLI / Crossfire

Maximum crossfire options:2-way

Electric characteristics

Maximum power draw:294 W

Video features

Multi-monitor:Up to 3 displays
Maximum digital resolution:**0 x 1600
Maximum VGA resolution:2048 x 1536
Anti-Aliasing technologies:24 x MSAA
24 x SSAA
Adaptive AA
HDMI:Yes
HDMI version:1.3

Performance

Pixel fill rate:2 x 23.2 Gigapixels/s
Texture fill rate:2 x 58 Gigatexels/s
Polygon throughput:1.45 billion polygons/s
Single presision compute power:2 x 2320 GFLOPS
Double precision compute power:2 x 4** GFLOPS

External connectors

Standard display connectors:DisplayPort
Dual-Link DVI-I
HDMI
VGA
Power connectors:1 x 6-pin
1 x 8-pin
Audio input for HDMI:Yes

Dimensions

Width:Dual-Slot

Other features / Support

Other features:ATI/AMD PowerPlay
Direct Compute 11
HD3D Technology
HDCP
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Support
Open CL support:1.1
OpenGL support:4.1
DirectX support:11.0
Shader model:5.0
Windows driver support:Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP
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