ATI Radeon HD 5870 to come with 1200 shaders?
 

AMD is fully aware that details on the coming GT300 from NVIDIA implies something phat coming. AMD may not have restructured its graphics design in an equally drastic manner, but it has time on its side. AMD is hoping to deliver RV870 chip in late summer and perhaps as early as July. German site Hardware-infos has published some new rumors on AMD's RV870 chip, which seems to confirm the names HD 5870 and HD 5870 X2.


With 50% more shader units and higher clock frequencies, and perhaps tuned shaders too, it comes as no surprise that the performance will be reflected by that. Radeon HD 5870 will deliver 2160 Gflops, which is close to twice that of HD 4870.

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