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1. Claim of most powerful processor based on raw compute horsepower measured in FLOPS. Internal calculations show that the processor used in the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series can achieve 2.72 TeraFLOPS, more than any other known microprocessor as of September 23, 2009. FLOPS is not necessarily an indicator of leading performance in every application as AMD GPUs are designed and built to excel specifically in applications involving massively parallel calculations.
2. The GPU in the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics has 215 billion transistors. As of September 17, 2009, this is more than any other known processor. As of September 17, 2009 the ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 GPU has the highest GFLOPS/mm2 and GFLOPS/W of all known products. As of September 17, 2009, the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics cards are the only graphics cards to fully support DirectX 11.
3. The performance-per-dollar offered by the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series at launch is twice the performance-per-dollar offered by the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series at launch. Performance-per-dollar calculated as (theoretical compute power in GFLOPS) / (Launch SEP).
4. HD-capable monitor required.
5. In games including Prey (4xAA, 8xAF), Devil May Cry (8xAA, 16xAF), Lost Planet Colonies (8xAA, 16xAF), Stormrise (no settings; 4xAA, 8xAF; 8xAA, 16xAF), ET: Quake Wars (8xAA, 16xAF), and Riddick -AoDA (8xAA, 16xAF), the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series delivers game performance that is at least 100% faster than the competition. Based on internal testing, using Intel Core7i 965 (3.2GHz @ 3.33GHz), Gigabyte EX58-UD5 motherboard, 6GB DDR3-1600 (timings 9-9-9-24), Windows 7 RTM x64, ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 1GB DDR5 850e/1200m or ATI Radeon™ HD 5850 1GB DDR5 725e/1000m, 8.66-Beta2_090819a-087204E-ATI driver or Nvidia GeForce GTX295 2x896MB DDR3 594e/1296sc/1026m, Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB GDDR3 648e/1476sc/1242m, Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 896MB GDDR3 633e/1404sc/1134m, 190.38 WHQL driver. All benchmark data based on 2560x1600 resolution.
6. Requires application support for ATI Stream technology and a Windows 7-capable system.
7. The graphics processor used on the ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card deliver 2.5 TeraFLOPS of compute power, equivalent to a top ten supercomputer from 2003: http://www.top500.org/list/2003/06/100
8. As of September 17, 2009, the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics cards are the only graphics cards to support DirectCompute 11.
9. Driver version 8.66 (Catalyst 9.10) or above is required to support ATI Eyefinity technology. To enable a third display on an ATI Radeon HD 5850 or ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector.
10. Full HD resolution is considered 1080p (1920x1080 = ~2.1 megapixels). The forthcoming ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6 graphics card with ATI Eyefinity technology supports six displays at 2560x1600 = ~24.6 megapixels for 12 x full HD resolution. Note that ATI Radeon HD 5870 and ATI Radeon HD 5850 graphics cards with ATI Eyefinity technology supports three displays at 2560x1600 = ~12.3 megapixels for 6 x full HD resolution.
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