When AMD will introduce its new graphics solution, carried out on 40 nm process technology, and supports DirectX 11, are expected to appear in at least two models of the new chips, Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5850. They will be the equivalent Radeon HD 4870 and HD 4850, the most popular GPU in a series of chips for graphics cards Radeon HD 4000.

The source reports the number of universal processors (shader) chip Cypress, the first AMD chip to support DirectX 11. According to information received, the chip will have 1600 Cypress universal processors. It is twice more than 800 shader chip RV770, using a Radeon HD 4870/4850, i.e. the theoretical performance of Radeon HD 5870/5850 twice the performance of the previous generation. Despite the fact that the frequency of the new chips are not yet known, according to rumors, their performance will be about 2Tflops, which leads to the assumption that the operating frequency: at least 650MGts. However, in the RV870 could easily be used and other options in addition to optimize the performance of increasing the number of shaders.

At the same time, users should not expect an increase in frame rates in games twice, since in addition to purely theoretical performance GPU has a lot of factors that also affect the actual performance of your computer applications and games. Nevertheless, given the 1600 Unified processors in Cypress and 800 in Juniper, from nVidia is less likely to really engage users of its new architecture, GT300, which the announcement is unlikely to happen before the end of this year, despite the fact that the showing of future nVidia graphics chips expected very soon.