The Internal Monster
There’s no doubt that the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Graphics Processor is a monster. And by this, it means that you are able to conquer more. It is slightly cheaper that the previous 5850. Nonetheless, it still comes with 1,440 shaders, 72 texture units, and a lower core clock of 725MHz. But there’s also more good news to share because it is also the very first DirectX 11 graphics chip. There’s a definite improved support for multi-core CPUs with the introduction of the compute shader. It is there to serve the processing and tessellation. You’ll definitely be amazed at how it can make your gaming experience so much better. It simply translates to more detailed geometry in your play. The graphics show that there’s more vitality to the surface effects and lighting.
AMD has also designed changes to the chip’s overall architecture. Most notable of all is its jump from MIMD or Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data to the SIMD or Single Instruction, Multiple Data. It computes so much better ever since its leap because while the MIMD is more flexible, the SIMD is arguably more efficient and a much better fit for an extremely parallel architecture. All over, the usual slew of tweaks in details has made the ROP texture more polished. You’ll see a marked difference in its overall performance and visual quality.
This model is the first ever chip that is capable of perfect angle-independent anisotropic filtering. It is also designed to deliver eight times anti-aliasing. The pixel size of the graphics is impressive because AMD has cranked it up to make your games more realistic.
