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AMD’s latest Graphic card, the ATI Radeon HD 5870 is really the best graphics card ever till date. It is even capable of beating Nvidia’s Geforce GTX 285 in performance, features and even in price! The ATI Radeon 5870 could give you a much greater performance than others. It is the best option for gamers, those who could afford it! Its stunning performance could take you to a whole new world of gaming. It takes less power compared to ATI Radeon HD 4890 and Nvidia Geforce GTX 285. But it is larger in size than the Geforce GTX 285. But that’s not a big problem. It beats Nvidia’s Geforce GTX 285 by a larger margin than Geforce GTX 285 beats its earlier version(ATI Radeon HD 4890). It is the fastest graphics card ever built. It is the world’s first graphics card to provide support for DirectX 11.

Features

•The ATI Radeon HD 5870 supports Microsoft’s new DirectX 11 API.

•Capable of delivering upto 2.72 TeraFLOPS of computing power.

•It is built using 2nd generation evolved 40 nanometre process texhnology.

•A clock speed of 850MHz.

•Takes less power when compared to its large size and performance.

•ATI Eyefinity Technology provides upto 3 screens.

•ATI Stream Technology can boost performance even for the high quality apps.

These are only some of its superb features. There are even more.

Disappointment in its Price

The only problem of the ATI Radeon HD 5870 is its price. Those who could not afford it can just sit and stare at its price. It is priced at $379! But when we look its stunning performance this price is fair. But this huge pricing will slowly come down with the course of time.

AMD has announced their latest processor release-The blistering 3.4GHz Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition. It has the same price($245) as that of AMD’s former release-The Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition which is having a clock speed of 3.2GHz. Allthough both have the same price, the Phenom II X4 965 has more performance than the Phenom II X4 955. With AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition you could get more performance at the same price. AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition is the highest clocked processor ever released by AMD. In terms of clock speed(3.4GHz), AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition became the fastest quad core processor pushing Intel’s Corei7 975 to the second position which is having a speed of 3.33GHz. With the 45nm fabrication, the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition was able to increase its speed a lot, enabling it to push Intel’s fastest processor to the second place. The AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition comes up with the same L2 cache(2MB) and L3 cache(6MB) as that of the Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition.

The Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition has a higher rate of power cosumption(140W) than its former ones. The Intel Core i5 750 is expected to be released by next month which is priced at only $199 which could force AMD to lower the price of its products. Till the i5 750 arrives, the only ones troubling the AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition are the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650($320) and the Intel Core i7 920($280). The Phenom II X4 965 could cope up with the first one but it will have to fight really hard by taking correct measures to drive off the Intel Core i7 920.