ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-5870 posts

Since the launch of DirectX11 last fall, it's only been available for destop PC graphics cards. Today during CES, AMD announced plans to launch the first DirectX11-supported graphics chips for notebooks. Due out in notebooks sometime in the first half of this year, the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 family of chips will extend DirectX11 from budget notebooks to high end gaming PCs.

AMD claims that the upcoming ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 graphics chip is the first such chip for notebook PCs that breaks the teraFLOPS performance barrier. The new chips will also support other ATI graphics chips features such as the multi-monitor Eyefinity support. In related news, AMD has announced that they have shipped 2 million DirectX11 supported graphics chips to its partners.