Company: AMD
Authour: James Prior
Editor: Charles Oliver
Date: November 18th, 2009

ATi Radeon
The big phrase Rage3D heard repeated in our phone call with AMD's Dave Baumann (AMD GPU Product Manager) and Devon Nekechuk (HD5970 Product Manager) was 'unlocked' - think of the HD5970 as the 'Black Edition' of AMD's GPUs.
This might seem strange when you look over the stock configuration but will make more sense later, we when delve deeper into this ultra-high-end product and the massive potential offered by the latest execution of the AMD sweet spot strategy. Let's hear from AMD themselves:
Today AMD announced the flagship installment in the award-winning line of graphics cards, the ATI Radeon HD5970, the fastest card ever created. Now shipping from retailers and available in the channel, the ATI Radeon HD5970 also launches today in new Alienware Area-51, Area-51 ALX and Aurora desktop PCs. Massive overclocking potential enables PC gaming enthusiasts to dominate their gameplay with DirectX 11, expand the game experience with ATI Eyefinity technology, and accelerate with ATI Stream technology. - AMD Press Release
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AMD ATi Radeon HD5970 Highlights
$599 MSRP
Dual 'Cypress' GPU
20 SIMD and 32 ROPs per GPU
1600 Stream Processors per GPU; 3200 total for 4.64TFlops of Compute Power
725MHz core clock per GPU
1GB GDDR5 @ 1000MHz memory clock (4Gbps) per GPU; 2GB total
Unlocked overclocking; non-standard CCC Overdrive limits
1ea 2x3pin PCIe power + 1ea 2x4pin PCIe power connector required
42W idle power / 294W load at default clocks
Triple display output (2 DVI + 1 mini DisplayPort)
Eyefinity Crossfire Support (requires DisplayPort connected display)
Included mini-DP to full-DP adapter; active DVI to HDMI adapter
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