SAPPHIRE HD5870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) Expand. Accelerate. Dominate Prepare to experience a riveting high-definition gaming experience with ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series graphics processors. Expand your visual real estate across up to three displays and get lost in the action with revolutionary ATI Eyefinity Technology. Using ATI Stream technology, accelerate even the most demanding applications and do more than ever with your PC.3 The first to deliver full support for Microsoft DirectX® 11, these GPUs enable rich, realistic visuals and explosive HD gaming performance so you can dominate the competition.

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• Flight Sim and Racing Games:
  Create the ultimate flight or racing simulation platform by extending supported games across multiple displays for a panoramic view that gives you a true sense of height andspeed.
   
• Role-playing Games (RPG):
  Get a bird’s-eye view and spread out game information across multiple screens and still stay in the center of the action.
   
• Real-time strategy (RTS):
  See more of the battlefield without having to zoom.
   
• First-Person Shooter (FPS):
  Get a better view of what’s going on around you, use your peripheral vision so you can see the enemy before they see you.
   

 

• DirectCompute, helps improve PC performance by taking on some or all of a DirectX 11-enabled application’s processing load, freeing up the computer’s mainprocessor to take on additional tasks.
• DirectX 11-enabled applications are designed for fast performance on your PC running Windows 7. In addition, programs designed for Windows 7 can convert a digital media file to a different size or format can perform a faster conversion (i.e. transcode) under Windows 7 than under previous versions of WIndows.
• Windows® 7 with built-in drag and drop transcoding is a great example how ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series GPUs provide an exceptional experience for the upcoming operating system.
• High performance anisotropic filtering and 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) smooth jagged edges and create true-to-life graphics, for everything from grass to facial features.

• ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series graphics accelerators and software drivers are the first to offer full support for Microsoft DirectX® 11.
• Get striking 3D visual effects and dynamic interactivity with DirectX® 11 support, including features like HDR Texture Compression, DirectCompute and Tessellation.
• DirectX® 11 brings new levels of visual realism to gaming on the PC and you’ll get top-notch performance for these titles with ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series GPUs.
  
  

• AMD’s 2nd generation TeraScale engine dramatically increases the processing power over the previous generation.
• Feel the power of more than 2 teraFLOPS plowing through the most demanding games.
• Experience the speed, responsiveness and performance of ultra-high bandwidth GDDR5memory.
• Get up to 1.8X of a graphics performance boost with ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode.
   

• PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
• 500 Watt or greater power supply with 2x 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connector recommended (600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ Technology in dual mode)
• Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSUfor a list of Certified products
• Minimum 1GB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive 
• DVD playback requires DVD drive 
• Blu-ray™ / HD DVD playback requires Blu-ray / HD DVD drive 
• For an ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (optional) are required
• To support 3 displays, one of the monitors has to support DisplayPort.

Features:

Microsoft DirectX® 11 Support

ATI Eyefinity Technology

ATI Stream Technology Designed for DirectCompute 5.0 and OpenCL Accelerate Video Transcoding

40 nm Process Technology

Advanced GDDR5 Memory Technology

2nd Generation TeraScale Engine

Microsoft Windows 7® Support

ATI CrossFireX™ Technology

Enhanced Anisotropic Filtering

Accelerated Video Transcoding

Display Flexibility, Supports DL-DVI, DP, HDMI and D-Sub

HDMI 1.3

Dolby® TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio™ Support

ATI PowerPlay™ Technology8 – Enhanced Support for GDDR5 memory

ATI Avivo™ Technology Enhanced Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2)

Supports OpenGL 3.1

Overclocking:

Specifications:

SKU Number: 21161-00-50R

I/O Output: Dual DL-DVI-I+DP+HDMI, Triple Display Support

Core Clock: 850 MHz

Memory Clock: Effective 4800 MHz

PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface

1024MB /256bit GDDR5 memory interface

Dual Slot Cooler with Auto Fan Control, 2 Ball Bearing

On-board HDMI, supports HDMI 1.3 with High Bitrate Audio

On-board DisplayPort

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