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AMD Demos Dual Cypress Graphics Card - Hemlock

Friday, September 25, 2009

We have already reported the news about the release of two of the latest graphics cards from AMD - Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5850. However, the American company has prepared another surprise for the computer enthusiast - was first demonstrated in a powerful video card Hemlock, which is based on two chips Cypress. The purpose of this demonstration was to confirm the intention to release a full line of AMD graphics cards series of Evergreen for five months.

Graphics card Hemlock will become the flagship of a new line of video cards from AMD and will be released tentatively in November and December. This decision has the support of DirectX 11 technology, implemented in the operating system, Windows 7. In the accompanying images show how the system based on video Hemlock copes with the demo version of the newest games Alien vs Predator, the appearance of which is expected in the first quarter of next year. In this game there are all the functions offered by DirectX 11, including tessellation models of characters, details on the surface tessellation environment, and support for technology High-Definition Ambient Occlusion (HDAO), adding a realistic game world.

It is unclear how the video card Hemlock able to realize all the benefits of DirectX 11 technology in this game. However, the frame rate is shown in the demo system, adjusts the experts on the optimistic mood. Moreover, despite its flagship status, and great opportunities, this graphics accelerator will cost less than $ 500.

As currently available information, graphics accelerator AMD Hemlock has a somewhat greater length than the model Radeon HD 5870. It is expected that the new dual-chip graphics card will be presented in two versions - Radeon HD 5870 X2 and HD 5850 X2 (marketing name has not yet confirmed). In addition, it is reported that the presented card Hemlock has a working frequency of 775 MHz and 1 GHz for the GPU and memory respectively, and is equipped with 1 GB of memory GDDR5. Hence, most likely, we have a younger model Radeon HD 5850 X2. Also note, AMD has not yet finished work on the video card, so its clock frequency and other parameters can be redefined.

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