ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 GPU Feature Summary

* 2.15 billion 40nm transistors
* TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
    o 1600 Stream Processing Units
    o 80 Texture Units
    o 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
    o 32 Color ROP Units
* GDDR5 interface with 153.6 GB/sec of memory bandwidth
* PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
* DirectX® 11 support
    o Shader Model 5.0
    o DirectCompute 11
    o Programmable hardware tessellation unit
    o Accelerated multi-threading
    o HDR texture compression
    o Order-independent transparency
* OpenGL 3.2 support1
* Image quality enhancement technology
    o Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
    o Adaptive anti-aliasing
    o 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
    o 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
* ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology 2,3
    o Three independent display controllers
        + Drive three displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
    o Display grouping
        + Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
* ATI Stream acceleration technology
    o OpenCL 1.0 compliant
    o DirectCompute 11
    o Double precision floating point processing support
    o Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling 4,5
        + Native support for common video encoding instructions
* ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology6
    o Dual, triple, and quad GPU scaling
    o Dual-channel bridge interconnect
* ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology 7
    o UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
    o Advanced post-processing and scaling8
    o Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
    o Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)
    o Independent video gamma control
    o Dynamic video range control
    o Support for H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2
    o Dual-stream 1080p playback support9,10
    o DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
    o Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP11
        + Max resolution: 2560x160012
    o Integrated DisplayPort output
        + Max resolution: 2560x160012
    o Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
        + Max resolution: 1920x120012
    o Integrated VGA output
        + Max resolution: 2048x153612
    o 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support13
    o 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 technology 7
    o Dynamic power management with low power idle state
    o 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: 188 Watts
* Idle board power: 27 Watts