Friday, May 1, 2009

[NEWS] AMD RADEON HD5870 SPECULATED

"Nordic Hardware - If we move on to the actual graphics processor there are some substantial improvements over the RV770/790 chips. AMD hasn't just expanded the number of shaders from 800 to 1200, it also increased the number of texture units to 48 and doubled the number of ROPs from 16 with RV770 to 32 with RV870. Not to forget the support for DirectX 11."

The RV870 will be a 40nm chip, can compute upto 2.1 TFLOPs.

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