AMD ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series Released

Having just offered you a heads up concerning the newly unveiled
Gigabyte GeForce GT220 OC graphics card along comes news that AMD have
just released their first ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series of graphics cards
that, according to AMD s press statement, feature the �most powerful
processor ever created in offering a startling 2.72 TeraFLOPS of
processing power.
Additionally billed as being the first any only GPU to fully support
DirectX 11, AMD have confirmed that the first two Radeon HD 5800 Series
graphics cards, namely the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and the ATI Radeon HD
5850, both of which come with 1GB of GDDR5 onboard memory, should be
available as of now via third party vendors.

�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 wjo introduced
the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series. �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.

Here s the complete low-down concerning what AMD s new ATI Radeon HD
5800 Series offer in terms of features (listed in full as it s
particularly impressive reading – duly credited at end of post):