More Pre-launch ATI Radeon HD 5970 Details

We are less than two days away from the big launch of AMD's current generation flagship - Hemlock, or to be branded as ATI Radeon HD 5970. As we know, the HD 5970 is basically two Cypress dies from the HD 5870 on one PCB, much like the HD 4870 X2 was to RV770. HD 5870's TDP does end up at 188W, nearly 30W higher than the HD 4870. Thus, to comply with PCI SIG standards, AMD have reportedly downclocked the GPU to 725 MHz and 4000 MHz for the memory. The full complement of 1600 shaders each is retained.