14 DAY TRIAL // Since Club 3D so quaintly offered a customized NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 card just a short time ago, it was expected that one of AMD's partners would immediately follow up with an ATI model, and Sapphire decided to take it upon itself to unveil the Radeon HD 5770 FleX, a video controller that stands out from the fold through its ability to control four monitors at once.
Multi-display functionality can actually be seen as quite common on the more capable of AMD's video cards, and the Eyefinity Technology, which lets games and media be displayed over 3 monitors at once, is not really a curiosity anymore.
ATI has also been selling Eyefinity 6 cards, which have the same ability, only over six monitors instead of just 3.
Sapphire tried to take the middle path this once and figured it would put in support for four monitors.
Thus it was that the ATI Radeon HD 5770 FleX graphics card came to be, which can still provide triple-display Eyefinity functionality even if the three monitors lack a DisplayPort (though one such output is still present on the card itself).
Granted, should one wish to go all the way and add the fourth monitor, said last monitor will need a DisplayPort.
Needless to say, Sapphire made a point of providing the performance level needed for those dual-DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort connectors.
The controller has a GPU clock of 850 MHz and 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM whose interface is of 128 bits.
Additionally, the product comes with 800 Stream Processors, a dual-slot cooler, a VRAM clock of 4,800 MHz and support for CrossFireX, among other things.
As a final mention, the video adapter, like all SAPPHIRE HD 5000 Series, is supported by AMD's DirectX 11 WHQL certified graphics driver.
Unfortunately, even though it shouldn't take long for sales to start, the hardware maker did not disclose the price of the board.