ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Graphics Feature Summary

Dual GPUs with a total of 4.3 billion 40nm transistors
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
- 3200 Stream Processing Units
- 160 Texture Units
- 256 Z/Stencil ROP Units
- 64 Color ROP Units
GDDR5 memory interface
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 support¹
Image quality enhancement technology
- Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
- Adaptive anti-aliasing
- Super AA
- 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
- 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology^2,3
- Three independent display controllers
  - Drive three displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
- Display grouping
  - Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
ATI Stream acceleration technology
- OpenCL 1.0 compliant
- DirectCompute 11
- Double precision floating point processing support
- Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling^4,5
  - Native support for common video encoding instructions
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology⁶
- Dual card performance scaling
ATI Avivo™ HD video & display technology⁷
- UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
- Advanced post-processing and scaling⁸
- 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, and MPEG-2
- Dual-stream 1080p playback support^9,10
- DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
- Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP¹¹
  - Max resolution: 2560x1600¹²
- Integrated DisplayPort output
  - Max resolution: 2560x1600¹²
- Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
  - Max resolution: 1920x1200¹²
- Integrated VGA output
  - Max resolution: 2048x1536¹²
- 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support¹³
- 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 technology⁷
- Dynamic power management with low power idle state
- Ultra-low power state support for single and multi-board configurations
Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP

Speeds & Feeds

Engine clock speed: 725 MHz
Processing power (single precision): 4.64 TeraFLOPS
Processing power (double precision): 928 GigaFLOPS
Polygon throughput: 1.45 billion polygons/sec
Data fetch rate (32-bit): 464 billion fetches/sec
Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 116 Gigatexels/sec
Pixel fill rate: 46.4 Gigapixels/sec
Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 185.6 Gigasamples/sec
Memory clock speed: 1.0 GHz
Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 256.0 GB/sec
Maximum board power: 294 Watts
Idle board power: 51 Watts

Driver support scheduled for release in 2010
To enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector or an active DisplayPort adapter
ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for panning across three displays
Requires application support for ATI Stream technology
Digital rights management restrictions may apply
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
ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo™ and ATI Stream are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon™ GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products
Upscaling subject to available monitor resolution
Blu-ray or HD DVD drive and HD monitor required to play Blu-ray / HD DVD discs
Requires Blu-ray movie disc supporting dual 1080p streams
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.
Some custom resolutions require user configuration
Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display