ATI HD 5970 Hemlock Graphics Card Priced Dual-GPU ATI Radeon HD 5970 Video Card Specs & Features

There has long been rumors about the monster in ATi's new HD5xxx
Evergreen series of graphic cards, but we caught wind that the HD5970
(early speculated to be named HD5870×2) will pack two of ATi's
Radeon HD5870 Cypress GPUs on one PCB, making for a true performance
champion that should be launching tomorrow.
Although the new ATI HD 5970 Hemlock graphics card is yet to be
launched, today we laid our eyes on some new pictures and pricing info
that have leaked out as online retailerย ZipZoomFly has listed the card
for $599.99 on their website. Too expensive? This is not a surprising
price point as the card is expected to be the fastest single card to
ever hit the market.
ATi, though currently facing shortages for both of its current high-end
cards, seems to have found its mark with the new HD5xxx series. The
Cypress HD5870 and HD5850 cards released after months of rumors and
were immediately sold out even with their slightly high prices. The 5870
has 1600 stream cores while the 5850 has 1440 usable cores for dedicated
graphics processing. Hence why the new HD5890 will effectively double
the number of cores from its younger brother and on top of these all, it
will also pack 2GB of GDDR5 RAM.
For now NVIDIA has no comparable product, at least not before their
Fermi GPUs launch in Q1 2010.