14 DAY TRIAL // Proving that AMD's DirectX 11-capable cards are in full bloom, Club3D has just announced that its line of HD 5800 graphics cards is now larger by two members, namely the factory-overclocked ATI Radeon HD 5850 and ATI Radeon HD 5870 models. The company claims that its new family of devices, known simply as the Radeon HD 5800 Overclocked Edition, “raises the performance bar into new dimensions,” thanks to the products' high clocks and advanced feature set.
The two cards have 1GB of GDDR5 memory and support the ATI Stream, ATI Eyefinity, ATI CrossFireX and ATI Avivo technologies, as well as OpenGL 3.1 and dynamic power management via the ATI PowerPlay technology. Both cards are built on the 40nm process technology and can deliver over two teraFLOPS of GPU power.
In addition, the devices are cooled by a four-heatpipe custom cooling design with a quiet, 90mm fan. This cooling mechanism has the fan running at low, quiet speeds when the card is in idle mode, but, the hardware maker claims, will be able to keep temperatures 10% lower compared with reference designs even under heavy loads.
The Club3D Radeon HD 5850 Overclocked Edition is based on the Cypress PRO graphics processing unit and has a 256-bit memory bandwidth, as well as 1,440 stream processors. This card has a GPU clock of 760 MHz, the memory frequency set at 4200 MHz and Dual DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. The Radeon HD 5870 Overclocked Edition has the same bandwidth, output capabilities and amount of memory (1GB), but has 1,600 stream processors and the ATI Cypress XT GPU running at 875MHz, with the memory clock being set at 4900 MHz.
The Club3D HD 5850 Overclocked Edition and the HD 5870 Overclocked Edition have manufacturer suggested retail prices of $445 (329 Euro) and $594 (439 Euro), respectively, and come bundled with the Colin McRae: DiRT 2 DirectX 11-enabled racing game.