Not bad if you have $600 sitting around.
You may have already noticed on our front page that there's a new king of the graphics card industry tested today.
AMD today announced the ATI Radeon HD 5970, which it calls the fastest card ever created thanks to pairing two HD 5870 GPUs together. After we put it to the test, we're going to agree with this claim (until the next best thing comes along, of course).
The ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics card delivers nearly 5 TeraFLOPS of compute power. Grab two of them together in CrossFireX and you're looking at nearly 10 TeraFLOPS.
"With the arrival of the ATI Radeon HD 5970, the fastest graphics card in the world, we’ve cemented AMD as the unquestioned graphics leader," said Matt Skynner, vice president and general manager, AMD Graphics Group. "With the holiday shopping season right around the corner, the new card, coupled with the awesome power of ATI Eyefinity technology, is the ultimate setup for serious gamers."
For the full story, we're going to hand you over to Chris Angelini's full review complete with benchmarks.
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It would be smaller than this one, maybe even quieter and still fast enough for me at this moment. Maybe 2Gb memory for later crossfire upgrade?
It's 4.3, far from "Nearly 5" and two total 8.6, which would be a stretch to call "nearly 9" let alone "nearly 10". Would you really call anything that reaches 86% of its target "nearly" there? A single 5870 1gb offers around 86% of the performance, does that make it nearly the same?
I agree but this would be a killer set up on a i7 rig, home built of coarse from either Tiger Direct or New Egg, both are good.
Sadly, the need for killer gaming rigs is a thing of the past because game studios have abandoned the PC as the primary platform in favour of the kiddie console market. The PC games are now port jobs (sometimes horribly done) that will run on any mediocre PC with a dedicated graphics card. I guess you can't blame them for going where the money is at. But I still refuse to believe the game studios lie that pirates are the reason the PC games are going down. It's a new generation of gamers that don't appreciate what a good gaming rig can do and/or it is a bunch of spoiled brats with Crapbox 360 and Crapstation 3 set-ups begging and whining, mommie, mommie I want that game now, waaaaaa.
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If you don't know, then you're an idiot.