AMD lanseaza ATI Radeon 5830

Timp ce nVidia inca se chinuie cu cipurile GF100, care au performanta cu 5% peste Radeon 5850, dar mananca energie de peste 370W, AMD isi completeaza gama placilor video de generatie noua 5800, de aceasta data cu un model cu pret sub 250$.

Specificatii tehnice complete:

- 2.15 billion 40nm transistors

- TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
1120 Stream Processing Units
56 Texture Units
64 Z/Stencil ROP Units
16 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 support
- ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology
- ATI Stream acceleration technology
- ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU technology
- ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology
- Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP10
- Integrated DisplayPort output
- Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color
- Integrated VGA output
- 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support

Engine clock speed: 800 MHz
Processing power (single precision): 1.792 TeraFLOPS
Processing power (double precision): 358 GigaFLOPS
Polygon throughput: 800M polygons/sec
Data fetch rate (32-bit): 179.2 billion fetches/sec
Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 44.8 Gigatexels/sec
Pixel fill rate: 12.8 Gigapixels/sec
Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 51.2 Gigasamples/sec
Memory clock speed: 1 GHz
Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 128 GB/sec
Maximum board power: 175 Watts
Idle power: 25 Watts