The gaming industry seems to be at its heels to woo hard core gamers. Asus has unleashed two new graphics cards upon the gaming world, the EAH5870/2DIS/1GD5 and EAH5850/2DIS/1GD5 Voltage Technology engineered cards.
Asus’ proprietary Voltage Tweak houses the SmartDoctor software that permits increasing GPU voltages from 1.15V to 1.35V, thus enhancing GPU and memory clock functions from 850/725MHz to 1035/1050MHz in the EAH5870 pair. The GPU voltage can be boosted up from 1.088V to 1.4V leading to an increase in GPU and memory clocking from 4800MHz/4000MHz to 5200/5200MHz in the EAH5850 pair.
The cards support DirectX 11 and Windows 7. Tessellation, HDR Texture Compression and DirectCompute programs work with Windows 7 to take full advantage of its graphical features. The innovative GDDR5 memory allows higher bandwidths, calculated at almost twice the pin rate when compared to GDDR3. The 40nm process adopted in crafting this series helps its transistors imbibe electricity in an energy-efficient manner.
The ATI Radeon HD 5870 is the graphics engine running the show behind these cards. The four have 1GB GDDR5 of video memory, sport PCI Express 2.0 cards, and are also HDCP compliant. Measuring 11†x 5†and 9.5†x 5†respectively, the EAH5870 and 5850 series comes with DVI Dual Link X2, HDMI and D-Sub outputs.
The EAH5800 cards give a DVI resolution of 2560 x 1600 and sport a 256bit memory interface. ATI Eyefinity technology and the DisplayPort connector allow gamers to view the game from three angles. Asus software, drivers and Colin McRae’s DiRT 2 are also packed into these graphics cards. It is left to see if they deliver the superior visuals and immersive 3D experience that the new features promise.
The price of the EAH5800 series edition is not yet out.
