According to rumors, AMD in the first quarter of 2010 plans to introduce a slightly cut-down version of its new high-performance two-chip graphics card, Radeon HD 5970, in order to more successfully resist the replenishment of the arsenal in the form of nVidia chip Fermi supports DirectX 11, which is expected to appear on market at about the same time.

Video card, referred to, will be called Radeon HD 5950 and, according to unconfirmed information, it can be seen on the market somewhere in the first quarter of next year, though no official confirmation of this there.

Expected, the new dual-chip monster will be a more or less double the current version of the Radeon HD 5850 with the same GPU, which have a universal processor 1440, and its frequency will be set somewhere between 650MGts and 675MGts. The memory frequency will be approximately between 3600MGts and 4000MGts, of course, if you believe the rumors.