AMD unveils ATI Radeon HD 5700 series graphics cards

Mumbai: AMD has unveiled its latest graphics cards, adding two more models to the world's first and only suite of graphics cards to fully support Microsoft Direct X 11 technology and ATI Eyefinity multi-monitor support. With the addition of ATI Radeon HD 5770 and ATI Radeon HD 5750 (the ATI Radeon HD 5700 series), AMD is providing PC gamers and multimedia enthusiasts with four great choices to enjoy the Microsoft Windows 7 experience. "The ATI Radeon HD 5800 series reaffirmed AMD as the undisputed leader in visual computing technology," said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President and General Manager, AMD Products Group. "Now, the ATI Radeon HD 5700 series takes the same great features like ATI Eyefinity and ATI Stream technology as well as full hardware support for all DirectX 11 features, and bundles them into products priced well below $200." The ATI Radeon HD 5700 graphics cards deliver more than one TeraFLOPS of compute power, ensuring superior performance in the latest DirectX 11 games, as well as in DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL titles. With graphics core built on 40nm process technology and up to 800 stream processors, gamers can enjoy DirectX 11 games now, such as EA Phenomic's Battleforge and many more titles, which are on the way. These include, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:Call of Pripyat from GSC Game World, Dirt 2 from Codemasters, Aliens vs. Predator from Rebellion, and update to The Lord of the Rings Online from Turbine. With over 20 DirectX 11 titles currently in development, gamers can be ready with DirectX 11 hardware this holiday season. ATI Eyefinity technology enables up to three monitors to be used with a single ATI Radeon HD 5770 or ATI Radeon HD 5750 graphics card. New features and functionality of ATI Stream technology allow users to harness both AMD CPUs and the ATI Radeon HD 5700 series graphics cards to maximize their computing experience, helping to improve the performance of enabled media, entertainment and productivity applications. ATI Stream technology and the HD 5700 series support both DirectX 11 Direct Compute and OpenCL industry standards. The ATI Radeon HD 5700 series also supports the latest HD audio technologies such as Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio and HDMI 3.1. This high level audio support allows users to fully utilize the multiple audio channels embedded in today's Blu-ray discs for the ultimate in HD home entertainment. ATI Radeon HD 5700 series also leads in power efficiency consuming as little as 16 watts at idle, less than a third the amount of power required by the average household 60 watt light bulb. This series is supported by a dozen add-in-board companies, including ASK, Asus, Diamond, Gigabyte, High Tech, MSI, Sapphire, Tul/Power Color, Visiontek and XFX. Dean McCarron, Founder of Mercury Research says, "Over the last decade, graphics processors supporting each new version of DirectX have achieved high volume shipments earlier in their life cycles than their predecessors. Our forecast is that DirectX 11 capable GPUs will continue this trend with the fastest transition between technologies ever, resulting in shipments surpassing DirectX 10 GPUs in 2010."