AMD aims to deliver the best 3D performance in 2010

AMD a well knows computer parts manufacturer currently sits on the throne when it comes to having the fastest PC graphics card on the market, a throne which AMD expects will sit on during most of 2010.

It is obviously not gone AMD's nose over that NVIDIA will launch their GF100-chip, based on Fermi architecture, at some time in March and that it will probably be faster than AMD's chips. It will not, however Richard Huddy from AMD to falter.

Huddy believes that they have the means to regain the throne in 2010, thus ensuring that sit the longest. Which means, there is, Huddy will not mention, merely that they will come up with new products.

There are two ways that the new products can be faster. Either by optimizing the current 5xxx architecture or introduce an entirely new. It is known that AMD is working on a new architecture that is currently only known under the code name "Northern Islands", and it may be that any. ready later this year.

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DirectX 11 Goes Mainstream with ATI Radeon HD 5770 & 5750 Launch

Is it to AMD / ATI, so it's time to far more than the past 2 million buyers of Radeon HD 57xx, 58xx and 59xx cards to enjoy the opportunities in DirectX 11th. It must happen with the introduction of the graphics card ATI Radeon HD 5670, which is aimed at the mainstream market with a price of $ 100 for a card with 512 MB of RAM.

The market for graphics cards to a maximum of $ 100 is very important to enter because this segment accounts for two thirds of the total graphics market. AMD hopes the new map, and two even cheaper series Radeon HD 55xx and ATI Radeon HD 54xx, published later, to double the number of GPUs sold in the 5xxx series in the coming months.

The new graphics cards contain 627 million. transistors against 2.15 billion. the flagship Radeon HD 5870th They are divided into 400 stream processors, 20 texture and 8 ROP's. With the significantly lower number of transistors is the energy consumption is also much lower, only 61 watts under load, and 14 watts when not doing 3D calculations.

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