Wondering where on earth that ASUS 5870 EYEFINITY 6/6S/2GD5 came from? Why, it’s just the latest card build on ATI’s new Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition video card platform, promising to be the first card capable of over 1bn pixels per second in real-world gaming. Packing a full 2GB of GDDR5 memory, the HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 is capable of 12 times 1080p Full HD resolution by squirting out six separate Mini DisplayPort signals shared – thanks to ATI Eyefinity technology – over six separate panels.
Core GPU speed is 850MHz, and it has 1600 Stream Processing Units, 80 Texture Units, 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units and 32 Color ROP Units. Meanwhile the memory clock is 1.2GHz and is capable of 153.6 GB/sec bandwidth. Altogether it’s good for 2.72 TeraFLOPS of processing power, 850M polygons/sec and 68 Gigatexels/sec. There’s also 3D glasses support and an integrated 7.1 surround sound controller.
As well as the card itself, in the box there are two mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort adapters, two passive mini DisplayPort to DVI dongles, and one passive mini DisplayPort to HDMI dongle, just in case you don’t have enough native DisplayPort-toting monitors. There’s also ATI CrossFireX compliance, so you can pair two of the cards for around 1.8x the performance. No word on pricing as yet, but we should see cards using the GPU arriving from today.