ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition Graphics Cards for Desktop PCs 

Overview 

 

Delivering up to 1 billion pixels per second

Extend your view of a game across up to six displays.^4,1

Experience the power of 6 with ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition graphics. Equipped with 2GB of GDDR5 memory, the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 is the first graphics card capable of rendering up to 1 billion pixels per second.

• ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 is the first graphics card capable of rendering up to 1 billion pixels per second.³
• Enjoy fast video encoding and transcoding so video playback, editing, and transferring content to portable media players is quick and easy.^5,8

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Specifications 

ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition Graphics Feature Summary

• 2.15 billion 40nm transistors
• TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
  • 1600 Stream Processing Units
  • 80 Texture Units
  • 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
  • 32 Color ROP Units
• GDDR5 interface with 153.6 GB/sec of memory bandwidth
• PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface 
• DirectX® 11 support 
  • Shader Model 5.0
  • DirectCompute 11
  • Programmable hardware tessellation unit
  • Accelerated multi-threading
  • HDR texture compression
  • Order-independent transparency
  • OpenGL 3.2 support
• Image quality enhancement technology
  • Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
  • Adaptive anti-aliasing
  • 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
  • 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
• ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology¹
  • Six independent display controllers
    • Drive up to six displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
  • Display grouping¹
    • Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display⁴
  • Bezel Compensation⁶
• ATI Stream acceleration technology
  • OpenCL 1.0 compliant⁷
  • DirectCompute 11
  • Double precision floating point processing support
  • Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling^5,8
    • Native support for common video encoding instructions
• ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology⁹
  • Dual, triple, and quad GPU scaling
  • Dual-channel bridge interconnect
• ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology¹⁰
  • UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
  • Advanced post-processing and scaling¹¹
  • Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
  • Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)
  • Independent video gamma control
  • Dynamic video range control
  • Support for H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2 and Adobe Flash¹²
  • Dual-stream 1080p playback support^13,14
  • DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
  • Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP¹⁵
    • Max resolution: 2560x1600¹⁶
  • Integrated DisplayPort output
    • Max resolution: 2560x1600¹⁶
  • HDMI® (With 3D, Deep Color and x.v.Color™)
    • Max resolution: 1920x1200¹⁶
  • Integrated VGA output
    • Max resolution: 2048x1536¹⁶
  • 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support¹⁷
  • Integrated HD audio controller
    • Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
    • Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
• ATI PowerPlay™ power management technology¹⁰
  • Dynamic power management with low power idle state
  • Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations
• Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP

Speeds & Feeds

• Engine clock speed: 850 MHz
• Processing power (single precision): 2.72 TeraFLOPS
• Processing power (double precision): 544 GigaFLOPS
• Polygon throughput: 850M polygons/sec
• Data fetch rate (32-bit): 272 billion fetches/sec
• Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 68 Gigatexels/sec
• Pixel fill rate: 27.2 Gigapixels/sec
• Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 108.8 Gigasamples/sec
• Memory clock speed: 1.2 GHz
• Memory data rate: 4.8 Gbps
• Memory bandwidth: 153.6 GB/sec
• Maximum board power: 228 Watts

System Requirements 

• PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
• 600 Watt or greater power supply is recommended with one 75W 6-pin and one 150W 8-pin PCI Express® power connector required (900 Watt and 2 6-pin and 2 8-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode)
• Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://support.amd.com/us/certified/power-supplies/Pages/listing.aspx for a list of Certified products
• Minimum 1GB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive
• Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive
• For an ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (included) are required

Support 

• Automatically detect and install the right driver

Footnotes 

1. ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios, which is required for panning across multiple displays. To enable more than two displays, additional panels with native DisplayPort™ connectors, and/or DisplayPort™ compliant active adapters to convert your monitor’s native input to your cards DisplayPort™ or Mini-DisplayPort™ connector(s), are required. ATI Eyefinity technology can support up to 6 displays using a single enabled ATI Radeon™ graphics card with Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating systems - the number of displays may vary by board design and you should confirm exact specifications with the applicable manufacturer before purchase. Systems using multiple ATI Radeon™ graphics cards can support a maximum of 8 displays (total across all cards in system) with a maximum 6 of those displays being used together in a display group (also known as a single large surface mode).
2. HD capable monitor required.
3. In tests AMD achieved an average 80.6 FPS in the game “Left4Dead 2” using a six screen configuration with one ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition card, 80.6 x (1920 x 1080 x 6) = 1.002 billion pixels per second.
4. For maximum ATI Eyefinity support with ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition graphics and Windows 7, download the latest ATI Catalyst™ driver from www.amd.com.
5. Requires application support for ATI Stream technology.
6. Available in the March 2010 driver (Catalyst 10.3).
7. OpenCL Driver support scheduled for release in 2010.
8. Digital rights management restrictions may apply.
9. ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card) and may require a specialized power supply.
10. ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo™ and ATI Stream are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products.
11. Upscaling subject to available monitor resolution.
12. Adobe Flash video acceleration and post-processing is supported for H.264-encoded content. Requires Adobe Flash Player 10.1 plug-in and Catalyst 9.11 or higher.
13. Blu-ray or HD DVD drive and HD monitor required.
14. Requires Blu-ray movie disc supporting dual 1080p streams.
15. Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components, including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, Blu-ray or HD DVD disc drive, multimedia application and computer operating system.
16. Some custom resolutions require user configuration.
17. Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display.

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