The HD 5870 graphic card fully supports Microsoft DirectX 112, the new gaming and compute standard shipping shortly with Microsoft Windows 7. With up to 2.72-TFLOPS processing, the card effectively doubles the performance per dollar over previous generations.
The card has a PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface, 1 Gbyte of GDDR5 memory, and its GPU uses 2.15-billion 40-nm transistors. Maximum board power is 188 W, and idle power is 27 W. ($380 — available now.)
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