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I still remember somewhere in middle of 2000 when I bought my first PC with my own money ( still 19 that time), the latest AMDk6-II 500 MHz. Really awesome. And I ran it with Windows 2000 (Win2k) since I still blind with Linux during that time. That was my first PC and I really [...]

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Over the past few weeks, both Intel and AMD have discussed their roadmaps for processors for the coming year. Because the companies’ CPUs will be the basis of nearly all the PCs we’ll see produced in 2010, this seemed like a good time to look at what we can expect in the desktop, laptop, and server markets. [...]

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AMD ATI Radeon HD 5970

Specifications and Features

2.15 billion 40nm transistors x 2
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture

3200 Stream Processing Units
160 Texture Units
256 Z/Stencil ROP Units
64 Color ROP Units

GDDR5 Memory Interface
Up To 256GB/sec of memory bandwidth
PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
DirectX 11 support

Shader Model 5.0
DirectCompute 11
Programmable hardware tessellation unit
Accelerated multi-threading
HDR texture compression
Order-independent transparency

OpenGL 3.2 support
Image quality enhancement [...]

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