ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series Launched

[NeoGen]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. --9/23/2009 AMD (NYSE: AMD) today launched the most powerful processor ever created, found in its next-generation graphics cards, the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series graphics cards, and the world’s first and only to fully support Microsoft DirectX® 11, the new gaming and compute standard shipping shortly with Microsoft Windows® 7 operating system. Boasting up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of compute power, the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series effectively doubles the value consumers can expect of their graphics purchases, delivering twice the performance-per-dollar of previous generations of graphics products. AMD will initially release two cards: the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and the ATI Radeon HD 5850, each with 1GB GDDR5 memory. With the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series of graphics cards, PC users can expand their computing experience with ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology, accelerate their computing experience with ATI Stream technology, and dominate the competition with superior gaming performance and full support of Microsoft DirectX® 11, making it a “must-have” consumer purchase just in time for Microsoft Windows® 7 operating system.
“With the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics cars driven by the most powerful processor on the planet, AMD is changing the game, both in terms of performance and the experience,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, Products Group, AMD. “As the first to market with full DirectX 11 support, an unmatched experience made possible with ATI Eyefinity technology, and ATI Stream technology harnessing open standards designed to help make Windows 7 that much better, I can say with confidence that AMD is the undisputed leader in graphics once more.”

Dominate your competition with Microsoft DirectX® 11 support
With the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series of graphics cards, gamers will enjoy gaming supremacy and the ultimate advantage, realizing incredible HD gaming performance and the most engaging experience possible with DirectX® 11 gaming done right:

• Designed and built for purpose: Modeled on the full DirectX 11 specifications, the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics cards delivers up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of compute power in a single card, translating to superior performance in the latest DirectX 11 games, as well as in DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL titles in single card configurations or multi-card configurations using ATI CrossFireX™ technology. When measured in terms of game performance experienced in some of today’s most popular games, the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series is up to twice as fast as the closest competing product in its class. allowing gamers to enjoy incredible new DirectX 11 games – including the forthcoming DiRT™2 from Codemasters, and Aliens vs. Predator™ from Rebellion, and updated version of The Lord of the Rings Online™ and Dungeons and Dragons Online® Eberron Unlimited™ from Turbine – all in stunning detail with incredible frame rates.
• Generations ahead of the competition: Building on the success of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series products, the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics cards is two generations ahead of DirectX 10.0 support, and features 6th generation evolved AMD tessellation technology, 3rd generation evolved GDDR5 support, 2nd generation evolved 40nm process technology, and a feature-rich compute shader, all geared towards delivering the best gaming experience money can buy.
• The ultimate in game compatibility: The DirectX 11 API was developed on AMD graphics hardware and represents the cornerstone of DirectX 11 gaming. All initial DirectX 11 games were developed and/or continue to be developed on AMD’s DirectX 11 hardware. With more than 20 DirectX 11 games currently in development, this innate optimization for ATI Radeon graphics cards, in combination with monthly ATI Catalyst™ driver releases, help ensure a stable, reliable and high-performance experience for the latest games.

Accelerate with ATI Stream technology
With the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics card, PC users can unleash Windows 7 and realize the potential of a better computing experience to help do more with their PC:

• Harness the home supercomputer: One ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card would have been one of the top 15 supercomputers in the world just six years ago – today that same processing power can be found in your home PC, working with high-performance CPUs to deliver a superior experience.
• Windows® 7 done right: Windows 7 is the first compute-capable operating system and the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics cards with ATI Stream technology accelerate it like nothing else, being the first and only card to support DirectCompute 11.
• Create and do more, faster than ever before with ATI Stream technology: Enjoy new features, functionality and improved performance in top media, entertainment and productivity applications made possible by ATI Stream technology.
• Most expansive support of industry standards: The ATI Radeon HD 5800 of graphics cards fully support both DirectX 11 and OpenCL, ensuring broad application support now and the future.

Expand the PC experience with ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology
Enjoy multi-monitor computing with seamless enablement of the biggest game environments ever seen:

• The ultimate in seamless flexibility: Arrange one to three displays using the ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 and ATI Radeon™ HD 5850 graphics cards, or up to six displays using the forthcoming ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Eyefinity6 graphics card, in a variety of configurations – any mix of portrait, or landscape.
• See them before they see you: Unlock the potential of multi-monitor gaming at up to 12 x full HD resolution, the largest game environments ever displayed. Experience more visual detail and expanded battlefields that your gaming competitors may lack.
• Enjoy visual computing in eye-definition: Virtually obsolete scrolling by taking advantage of vast desktop real estate to put more information at your fingertips. Enjoy the best of today’s latest visually-enhanced online applications – social networking, video conferencing, video entertainment, and satellite imagery – all in stunning detail.

Ecosystem support

• The ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series of graphics cards is supported by a dozen add-in-board companies, including ASUS, Club 3D, Diamond Multimedia, Force3D, GIGABYTE, HIS (Hightech Information Systems), MSI, Multimedia, PowerColor, SAPPHIRE Technology, VisionTek and XFX.

Original article here: http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases...2009sep22.aspx

[NeoGen]

"Boasting up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of compute power..."

Dang....

[BlackAdder]

WOW... what a beast this is going to be !!
Hummm.... I bought a 4870 a few months ago... my fourth F&H cruncher... 2 X1950's and a 3870 fried from crunching... over 330 wu's so far on my 4870... I wonder how long before I'll need to buy this new one ??? Hee Hee.... Haa Haa ( fiendish laugh )

[Jason1478963]

I have a 4850 that's running pretty hot too on distributed.net. I would like to add a koolance water block to it as it is running over 80C. I hope the new cards run a bit cooler then this as the water blocks aren't cheap

[mitchellds]

Then theres this on the way also..

http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/17658

[NeoGen]

So that dual one costing near $1,000(US) might raise the bar above 5 TeraFlops!

If you can find a motherboard that can take 4 of those and a Phenom II or an i7, you might as well sign up for the Top500 Supercomputers list!

[plonk420]

I have a 4850 that's running pretty hot too on distributed.net. I would like to add a koolance water block to it as it is running over 80C. I hope the new cards run a bit cooler then this as the water blocks aren't cheap

bring on the apps already!

edit:

how are you doing distributed.net? any links i can follow to do distributed.net on ATI?

ok, found ATI client. how do i sign up? or does that happen when you run the executable?

[AMDave]

Yes you need to crunch first.
When you start the client you should insert your username in the config.
(it should ask you to, otherwise the points go to the great collective in the sky)

After you show up in stats within the next 24 hours, you should receive an email with a password.
The email tells you how to go to the stats page for AMD Users
The project team name is "AMD-Users"
We have a forum here

[BlackAdder]

This is suppose to be the rear view of the 5870X2......

Does the guy have small hands or is this card HUGE ????

[Brucifer]

Probably a combination of small hands, and some slick photography. :-)

We have obviously entered the day and age of the GPU race, like we were in with CPU's a while back. And it appears that they will be trying to extract max bux from the purchasers too, just like with the release schedules of the CPU's of days not too far past.

Keeping things in a bit of perspective though, if they are talking $1,000 for the 58xx, then the prices are rising rapidly even though it is a powerhouse of a card. Take a look at the prices of the workstation gpu's, some of those were/are up to 3500 US bux.

Myself I justify the purchase price of gpu's based purely on what it would cost me to purchase cpu's to do the equiv amount of work. So from that end of things, the gpu's are a bargain. Just depends on how much you are into a project and how much you care to spend to play. Things are really starting to move in the desktop parallel processing world and it is good to see that multiple projects out there are taking advantage of the huge gains in computing power.