At a time when enthusiasts all over the world want to get a video card on chip Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5850, AMD has added fuel to the fire, showing a system equipped with a video card Hemlock. Release of this model is planned for November-December this year. The structure includes two chips Hemlock Cypress, and, presumably, future high-performance dual-chip graphics card will cost no more than $ 500 per batch of 1000 pieces. The source adds that the company AMD, it seems, seriously began to work, and going for five months to submit all graphics chips series Evergreen.

On the computer with video card Hemlock was shown a demo version of the game Alien Vs Predator, which uses DirectX 11 and to be published in the 1 st quarter of next year. They showed many features DX11, including tessellation characters, tessellation parts of the landscape, High-Definition Ambient Occlusion (HDAO), etc. While it is impossible to say how the use of new graphics chips will increase performance in games with DX11, however, the frame rate provided by Hemlock, very impressive.

According to available information, the video card Hemlock is slightly longer than the video card Radeon HD 5870 is likely, it will be about 12 "in length. You can expect to have two versions: Radeon HD 5870 X2 and Radeon HD 5850 X2 (marketing name has not yet confirmed). At Photographs taken with a mobile phone and therefore not too fastidious, we see that the card works with a core clock frequency 725MGts and 1GHz memory, has 1GB of memory GDDR5, so that probably is the version of HD 5850 X2. It should be noted that AMD is still working on a new model, and in final form, all frequencies and other characteristics may be different.