Monday, March 29th 2010
XFX Alters Radeon HD 5970 Black Edition Design
First spotted at the CeBIT event, the XFX Radeon HD 5970 Black Edition 4 GB graphics card is taking a new shape with the company redesigning its cooler. The older design borrowed heavily from AMD's reference cooler design. Its CGI drawings were released to the press, although the real card with its older cooler was shown off at CeBIT. The HD 5970 Black Edition from XFX sports two AMD Cypress GPUs with 1600 stream processors each, 4 GB of GDDR5 memory across 2x 256-bit memory interfaces, clock-speeds on par with single-GPU Radeon HD 5870 (850/1200 MHz, core/memory), and added overclocking potential. It uses Eyefinity6 display outputs, to single-handedly run six full-HD displays, and multiple Eyefinity display groups.
"XFX have always developed the most powerful, versatile Gaming weapons in the world - and have just stepped up to the gaming plate and launched something spectacular that may well literally blow the current NVIDIA offerings clean away," said XFX, in a statement to Nordic Hardware. "GTX480 and GTX470 are upon us, but perhaps the time has come to Ferm up who really has the big Guns." XFX is targeting high-end consumers, the HD 5970 Black Edition is to be made in Limited Quantities, though available shortly. It is expected to be priced at US $1000.
Source:
NordicHardware
"XFX have always developed the most powerful, versatile Gaming weapons in the world - and have just stepped up to the gaming plate and launched something spectacular that may well literally blow the current NVIDIA offerings clean away," said XFX, in a statement to Nordic Hardware. "GTX480 and GTX470 are upon us, but perhaps the time has come to Ferm up who really has the big Guns." XFX is targeting high-end consumers, the HD 5970 Black Edition is to be made in Limited Quantities, though available shortly. It is expected to be priced at US $1000.
63 Comments on XFX Alters Radeon HD 5970 Black Edition Design
Can't wait to see how this turns out :rockout:
When will we see a 6GB card, screw that 10GB Nvidia FTMFW 999 Titian Extreme Edition~$999.99 with $20 MIR. X)
Someone buy one and let me borrow it for a minute :laugh:
As in XFX 5970, your weapon in gaming. That type of marketing shite.
But human_error is correct you could easily pass those clocks underwater and for alot cheaper price.
Wile E throw your i7 980X at Paul and have your wife roundhouse kick him. :p
How things change, XFX once a loyal and solid partner of Nvidia, teaming up with the enemy (money calls); I still remember my dead XFX GeForce2 :cry:
Could you imagine Sapphire making GeForce? :nutkick:
This is excellent for competition, I don't wanna think of a world with a gpu monopoly.
and toyo, your post was the funniest thing i've read for a long time; THX!!!!
Wait a sec... I shouldn't be making these type of statements on the net being a girl... :eek:
:D
Well, perhaps I'd get away with it if I post in русский язык ;)
I love kids though too and I'm glad you appreciate them more than your computer. Good father :)