AMD announces DirectX11-based ATI Radeon HD 5800 graphics card series

Posted Sep 23rd 2009 8:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Hardware

They have been teasing us for some time but today AMD announced their first fully supported DirectX11 graphics card. The AMD RadeonHD 5800 series of graphics chips have up to up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of compute power on just one card. It also has support for the recently announced ATI Eyefinity technology that will allow up to six monitors to be run on just one graphics card.

AMD will release two Radeon HD 5800 graphics cards at first. One is the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and the other is the ATI Radeon HD 5850. Both will come with 1 GB of memory. The Radeon HD 5870 card is now available from several different graphics card companies with a price of $379.99

Tags: amd, ati, ATI-Eyefinity, ati-radeon, ati-radeon-5800, directx11

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