Sometimes a surprise is pleasant. In some cases preferable, when everything goes according to plan in advance.

Compared with the launch of HD 4800 series, the recent official announcement of the first graphics accelerator with support for DX11 ATI HD 5800 family is just the second category of events. Everything was carefully prepared and thought out in advance, pricing policy approved by a sufficient number of cards to meet the initial demand made. Thus, 23 September AMD had the most "normal" start of the next generation of video cards, which is only possible to present the case with the release of a new GPU.

If we consider the situation in a different vein, it becomes clear that such a development is quite impossible to keep secret characteristics of the device before the end of the NDA. When the product is technically ready in an expected time frame and passes the last phase of preparation for release, the information on it starts slowly at first, and then quickly spread all over the Internet. As a result, at the time of the official release of the specification for users interested in new items is not any revelation.

So this time more than two weeks ago the web were released complete and correct data architecture and characteristics of the HD 5800 cards. So in this review you will find more support and expansion of already known information. Nevertheless, due by the RV870 and HD 5870 will not be bored.