ATI DirectX 11 Eyefinity “Evergreen” card (aka Radeon HD 5870) is out

Posted by Tony DeYoung on September 23, 2009

imageThe Radeon HD 5870 cards are official today (press release) and the reviews are out everywhere. The new card features full DX11 support including DirectCompute, OpenCL support, of course OpenGL support, Eyefinity multi-monitor support and doubling of performance over previous cards with up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of compute power.

Some of the many reviews:

No word yet on any professional level cards like the FirePro line, but those typically takes more time since there is an involved process to certify the drivers for high performance (and warranty) in CAD apps.

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