14 DAY TRIAL // Although it came somewhat later than the official release of AMD's Radeon HD 5970 graphics card, Axle's version seems to have made up for the wait with the high-end performance offered by the very powerful Axle HD 5970. Capable of reaching virtually unparalleled computing speeds, even the most heavy computing tasks and games of today's IT market will hardly be a challenge for this adapter.
The video card is built using two RV870 graphics processing units (GPUs), has no less than 2GB DDR5 memory with a bandwidth of 512 bits and uses the top-end 3200 stream processing units. In total, the processing power is said to exceed four teraFLOPS with just its base settings, while the great possibilities for overclocking may increase the speed to greater heights.
The video board fully supports DirectX 11 and combines the unique features of HDR Texture Compression, DirectCompute and Tesselation. This radically improves all aspects of gaming and the experience is complemented by the Ati Stream technology, which allows even the latest games to run better and faster, at high refresh rates. In addition, the card uses the most up-to-date Ati-Eyefinity technology, allowing for triple-display setups through which users can totally immerse themselves in the virtual world of the media files or games they are playing.
HD playback is also taken to new heights. The card has a built-in Ati Avivo technology, which makes HD Blu-ray and even normal video playback more vivid.
Finally, gaming and HD media playback are far from being the only uses of this card, though. Eyefinity is perfect for the viewing of multiple application screens at the same time, and the excellent application running is aided by the fact that the overall system performance is improved through offloading the tasks from the CPU to the GPU. This allows any kind of CPU-heavy programs to run simultaneously, and the ATI PowerPlay technology automatically adjusts the power consumption according to the GPU activity.