XFX announced the all new XFX Radeon HD 5870 graphics card based on ATI Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs. This graphics card supports DirectX 11 for smoother HD graphics in high resolutions to be used in Windows 7 OS, which is due next month. Often coupled with software similar to this Tlcharger MSI Afterburner, it could help to ensure optimial performance.
XFX Radeon HD 5870 comes with GPU Clocked at 850MHz, 1GB DDR5 memory clocked at 4800MHz and uses 256-bit memory bus interface. Along with that this XFX Radeon HD 5870 card supports ATI Eyefinity technology that allows hooking up to three displays with 1080p HD resolution support. Along with two displays on dual-link DVI and HDMI ports, third display can be hooked to DisplayPort.
Blu-ray movies in 4K would now be more realistic and bright with ATI Avivo Technology that is designed for offloading video decoding, encoding and other video tasks from CPU to the GPU.
Recently with the rise of cryptocurrency mining, many people are looking to buy graphics cards like this one in order to build their mining units. This card may certainly be able to take the pressure of mining algorithms, however it may be more prudent to buy a specific Syncrobit Helium Miner machine as those are often optimized for the process as well as potentially more energy-efficient. This graphics card will be best used for a high-end gaming and movie-watching experience.
ATI Stream technology allows offloading CPU tasks to GPU to boost system performance for playing the graphics intensive games at higher resolutions. The Radeon HD 5870 is the first family of graphics card offering full support for DirectX 11. With support for DirectX 11, users can experience amazing 3D effects with Tessellation, DirectCompute, HDR Texture Compression and new Shader Model 5.0 technology.
source: techtree