ATI has just launched the Radeon 5800 series to mostly positive reception. With no serious competition in sight from NVIDIA till possibly early next year, the onslaught from the red team is just beginning. We've received word that the 5700 series (known as Juniper) is being prepped for release as we speak and we'll be bringing you its performance numbers really soon.
We've already established the new Radeon HD 5870 as the world's fastest single GPU. The chip, codenamed "Cypress XT", boasts a mind boggling 2.15 billion transistors and 1600 stream processors running at 850MHz, which is then further aided by 1GB of super-quick GDDR5 memory running at 4.4GHz DDR, making it a bona fide juggernaut amongst graphics cards...
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