ATI HD5970 – Worlds most powerful GPU

The launch of ATI HD5970 marked the introduction of the most powerful dx11 based graphics processing  unit (GPU) in the market. ATI now monopolizes the GPU market by providing more affordable cards and also the most powerful ones. At the launch time it was priced around 600$, varying for overclock versions. It is about a feet long (12.5 inches, that is huge for a GPU), probably the longest one in the market, not considering nVidia‘s quadro series.

The net performance of some overclocked versions reaches close to 5.0 Tera flops, or 5 trillion floating operations per second. A factory edition does around 4.6 teraflops. Number of stream processors are 1600X2. This can run every game presently available at full HD resolutions ie 1080p, with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering beefed up to the max at playable frame rates. To utilize its full potential you’ll need a monitor that supports atleast full HD. To avoid CPU bottle-necking intel core i7 processor is a must!

Related articles:

• Hey, It’s The World’s Fastest Graphics Card [PC Hardware] (kotaku.com)
• ATI’s dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970 pictured in the wilderness (engadget.com)
• The Super-Powerful ATI Radeon HD 5870 (everyjoe.com)
• AMD unveils ‘world’s fastest’ graphics card (news.cnet.com)
• AMD(ATi) HD 5970 The New Undisputed Champion (lockergnome.com)