ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5700 & HD 5600 Series 

Overview 

 

Maximize. Accelerate. Conquer your Games.

Bring the theater to you and maximize your HD experience with ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5700/HD 5600 Series GPUs.

• Loaded with must-have multimedia features to deliver cinema-quality audio and video when watching the hottest Blu-ray movies or other HD content for a truly immersive entertainment experience.^16,17
• Experience real innovation in DirectX® 11 gaming combined with GDDR5 advanced memory and conquer the latest games with intense HD gaming performance and real world visuals, optimized for gamers on-the-go.¹⁶

 

Specifications 

ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5700/ HD5600 Series GPU Specifications 

• 627 million 40nm transistors
• TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
  • 400 Stream Processing Units
  • 20 Texture Units
  • 32 Z/Stencil ROP Units
  • 8 Color ROP Units
• 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
  • 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
  • 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
• ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology^2,3
  • Six independent display controllers
    • Drive up to six 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 support¹⁵
  • DirectCompute 11
  • Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling^4,5
    • Native support for common video encoding instructions
• 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, MPEG-2, and Adobe Flash⁹
  • Dual-stream 1080p playback support^10,11
  • DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
  • Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP¹²
    • Max resolution: 2560x1600¹³
  • Integrated DisplayPort output
    • Max resolution: 2560x1600¹³
  • Integrated HDMI® 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
    • Max resolution: 1920x1200¹³
  • Integrated VGA output
    • Max resolution: 2048x1536¹³
  • 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support¹⁴
  • 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
• Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP

Speeds & Feeds 

Footnotes 

NOTE: Additional hardware (e.g. Blu-ray drive, HD or 10-bit monitor, TV tuner) and/or software (e.g. multimedia applications) are required for the full enablement of some features.  Not all features may be supported on all components or systems - check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies.

1. Catalyst 10.6 or above is required.
2. Catalyst 9.10 driver or above is required to support ATI Eyefinity technology. Actual number of attachable monitors will vary by notebook model.
3. ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for panning across multiple displays.
4. Requires application support for ATI Stream technology.
5. Digital rights management restrictions may apply.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Upscaling subject to available monitor resolution.
9. 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.
10. Blu-ray or HD DVD drive and HD monitor required.
11. Requires Blu-ray movie disc supporting dual 1080p streams.
12. 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.
13. Some custom resolutions require user configuration.
14. Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display.
15. Catalyst 10.10 or above is required.
16. HD capable monitor required.
17. Blu-ray drive required and Blu-ray movie disc supporting dual 1080p streams.
18. The ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5700/HD 5600 Series GPUs can upscale video display to 2560x1600 on dual-link monitors.

Performance, technologies and features listed above can vary with specific notebook implementations. Please consult with Notebook vendor for a complete list of supported features.

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.).