Thread: The ATI Radeon HD 5970 (X2) in pictures?

For some time already knows that AMD is preparing a new graphics card DirectX 11 GPU adopting two. The succession to ATI Radeon HD 48X0 X2 / 38X0 X2 is highly anticipated as it will allow the firm to Texas to assert his dominance of Nvidia, which began with the Radeon HD 5800. For now, the GTX 295 is still resistance and is available for over 10 months since it was launched (or rather announced) at the beginning of January 2009. The chameleon is still enjoying the advance since the super graphics card is still sold almost 360 € in the best case.

Just the post pictures and benchmarks for future ATI Radeon HD 5970.According to the sources of our colleague, AMD has chosen to abandon the suffix X2 and have adopted two new names. We should discover in a few weeks the ATI Radeon HD 5970 and ATI Radeon HD 5950 (instead of the 5870 X2 and 5850 X2). Also according to this source, AMD is confident about his chances against the Cards Fermi (GT300/GF100) NVIDIA.

The graphics card pictured here differs slightly from the cards they had seen so far. The "casing" top is black and not red. Supply side, rumors speak of a TDP of 300 watts, which is confirmed by the presence of two PCIe connectors, a 6-pin and 8-pins.