Rumor Mill: Radeon HD 5870 in All Its Beauty

One of the most anticipated products this September is coming from Advanced Micro Devices, which is expected to announce the release of its new series of Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics cards, bringing to the market the first DirectX 11-compatible GPU. A number of leaked details on the said cards have recently made their way on the Internet, providing some insight into what to expect from AMD's next-generation graphics processor. On that note, a recent news article on a European website has included photos of the alleged Radeon HD 5870 and technical details on the new series of GPUs from AMD, including the more mainstream HD 5850.

The gang over at the Czech website PC Tunning has posted a number of photos on what is allegedly AMD's next-generation flagship graphics card, the Radeon HD 5870. The fellows have went so far as to include a detailed table of specifications of the upcoming cards from AMD, providing us with an in-depth look at what AMD will be offering with the release of its new Radeon HD 5800 series of DirectX-compatible graphics cards. The photos show a card that boasts a rather different cooling solution, compared with some of AMD's previous releases, but, according to the said article, this is the final heat sink, which will be unveiled with the official launch of AMD's new card.

As far as the technical specification go, the new Radeon HD 5870 will be available in both 1GB and 2GB models, with the latter being dubbed HD 5870 Six. The two models are featured with 40nm GPUs, as it was expected, and come with double the stream processors that are currently available on the Radeon HD 4800 series, namely 1,600. The new cards are apparently capable of providing 2.4 TFLOPS of performance, which makes them some of the highest performance solutions to be available on the market.

Among other things, the new series of graphics cards will also be featured with support for AMD's new Eyefinity multi-display technology. According to other reports on the Internet, the new cards could be officially announced today, but, so far, there hasn't been any word from the Sunnyvale, California-based graphics chip maker.