The new ATI Radeon™ HD 5970: The world’s fastest graphics card 

Overview 

 

The fastest graphics card on the planet¹

The new ATI Radeon™ HD 5970: The world’s fastest graphics card.¹

Engineered for speed, the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 delivers an unrivaled HD gaming experience so you can play the latest, most demanding HD titles like never before.²  Featuring cutting-edge graphic, display and memory technology, this next-generation powerhouse delivers unprecedented performance straight out of the box.

• Get state-of-the-art overclocking capabilities that give you unmatched control and flexibility.³
• Engineered for speed, the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 delivers an unrivaled HD gaming experience.²

Support

• ATI Radeon™ 5970 KB Articles
• ATI Radeon™ 5970 Drivers

 

 

Specifications 

• 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 support⁸
• 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^4,5
  • 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 support¹⁷
  • DirectCompute 11
  • Double precision floating point processing support
  • Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling^6,9
    • Native support for common video encoding instructions
• ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology⁷
  • Dual card performance scaling
• 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, and MPEG-2
  • Dual-stream 1080p playback support^12,13
  • DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
  • Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP¹⁴
    • Max resolution: 2560x1600¹⁵
  • Integrated DisplayPort output
    • Max resolution: 2560x1600¹⁵
  • Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
    • Max resolution: 1920x1200¹⁵
  • Integrated VGA output
    • Max resolution: 2048x1536¹⁵
  • 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support¹⁶
  • 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 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

System Requirements 

• PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
• 650 Watt or greater power supply one 75W 6-pin and one 150W 8-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (850 Watt with two 75W 6-pin and two 150W 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 5970 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. As of October 9th, 2009, the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 scores in excess of X10000 in 3DMark Vantage v.101, the highest single graphics card score achieved to date.
2. HD capable monitor required.
3. AMD's product warranty does not cover damages caused by overclocking, even when overclocking is enabled via AMD OverDrive™ or ATI OverDrive™ software.
4. To enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector or an active DisplayPort adapter.
5. ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for panning across three displays.
6. Requires application support for ATI Stream technology.
7. ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect (for the additional graphics card) and may require a specialized power supply.
8. Driver support scheduled for release in 2010.
9. Digital rights management restrictions may apply.
10. 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.
11. Upscaling subject to available monitor resolution.
12. Blu-ray or HD DVD drive and HD monitor required to play Blu-ray / HD DVD discs.
13. Requires Blu-ray movie disc supporting dual 1080p streams.
14. 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.
15. Some custom resolutions require user configuration.
16. Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display.
17. OpenCL compliant driver and SDK release scheduled for later in 2010.

ATI Radeon™ HD graphics chips have numerous features integrated into the processor itself (e.g., HDCP, HDMI, etc.). Third parties manufacturing products based on, or incorporating ATI Radeon HD graphics chips, may choose to enable some or all of these features. If a particular feature is important to you, please inquire of the manufacturer if a particular product supports this feature. In addition, some features or technologies may require you to purchase additional components in order to make full use of them (e.g. a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD drive, HDCP-ready monitor, etc.).