Drive three displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
Display grouping
Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
ATI Stream acceleration technology
OpenCL 1.0 compliant
DirectCompute 11
Double precision floating point processing support
Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling4,5
Native support for common video encoding instructions
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology6
Dual, triple, and quad GPU scaling
Dual-channel bridge interconnect
ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology7
UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
Advanced post-processing and scaling8
Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)
Independent video gamma control
Dynamic video range control
Support for H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2
Dual-stream 1080p playback support9,10
DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP11
Max resolution: 2560x160012
Integrated DisplayPort output
Max resolution: 2560x160012
Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
Max resolution: 1920x120012
Integrated VGA output
Max resolution: 2048x153612
Integrated HD audio controller
Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio format
ATI PowerPlay™ power management technology7
Dynamic power management with low power idle state
Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations
Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP
Driver support scheduled for release in 2010
Driver version 8.66 (Catalyst 9.10) or above is required to support ATI Eyefinity technology and to enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector
ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for panning across three displays
Requires application support for ATI Stream technology
Digital rights management restrictions may apply
ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card)and may require a specialized power supply
ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo™ and ATI Stream are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products
Upscaling subject to available monitor resolution
Blu-ray or HD DVD drive and HD monitor required
Requires Blu-ray movie disc supporting dual 1080p streams
Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components, including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, Blu-ray or HD DVD disc drive,multimedia application and computer operating system.
Some custom resolutions require user configuration
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Rated by nick_k, February 28, 2010
i have not had the card long but no problems so far. it is big but with a haf922 had plenty of room. has stayed quiet so far with a little gaming.and is performing much better than previous card.
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Rated by Shane_P, February 10, 2010
I bought this to add to my 5970 and it runs quite well, plays every game on very high with AA and stays over 100FPS at all times. I have my 5970 underwater, but not sure if I will worry about the 5870 it seems to stay very cool anyway. like 75c on load
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Rated by Warren_W, January 13, 2010
This is an amazing card. It was pretty easy to install, just had to move my hard drive. Runs everything maxed, and is perfect for hooking up to hd TV's to watch movies, getting the audio/video all through hdmi.
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Rated by Gerald M_Y, January 12, 2010
Over all a amazing card i purchased this card over the XFX because of a lack of stock on the XFX. If i had my time back i probably would have waited for the XFX because of the better warranty and more cables this card only comes with a VGA-DVI adapter unlike the XFX which comes with display port-dvi, molex-sli and the DVI-VGA...
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Rated by Adrian_N, January 9, 2010
It was a difficult installation. Occasionally, the LCD would go blank claiming "no DVI signal". Also had an issue with my one CRT stuck at 60mhz refresh. Finally uninstalled the Powercolor drivers (Both CD and downloaded) and installed the default ATI drivers for the 5800 series. That seemed to work. Got 19000+ on 3Dmark06, an improvement of about 8000 over my old 8800GTS 320. I suspect my problems were related to my motherboard being PCI-E 1.2 and my operating system, XP SP3.
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