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Last updated: Thursday, January 14, 2010

In a move to bring high-definition gaming to the masses, Advanced Micro Devices has introduced the ATI Radeon HD 5670 graphics card to support Microsoft DirectX 11 gaming and computing. The new card also offers a new innovation called ATI Eyefinity technology. Priced at less than $100, the HD 5670 promises superior HD gaming experiences for the latest DirectX 11 titles. The card relies on ATI Stream technology to enhance performance in video playback and productivity applications and, AMD said, helps enable the full Windows 7 experience. Demonstrating AMD’s commitment to gaming, Matt Skynner, vice president and general manager of AMD’s Graphics Group, said the company recently shipped its two millionth DirectX 11 graphics chip. “This is a great example of how higher-end technology — and there’s a gazillion examples of it, everything from microprocessors to high-performance computing — trickles downstream in lower cost, higher performance products over time,” said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. Priced for Mass Adoption How powerful is the ATI HD 5670? It delivers up to 620 gigaFLOPS of computing power and GDDR5 memory. That much memory opens the door to gaming performance that hasn’t been a reality for under $100 with titles such as Codemaster’s Colin McRae: DiRT 2, EA Phenomic’s BattleForge, GSC Game World’s S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat, and Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and other DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 10.1, and OpenGL titles. According to AMD, its new graphics processor showed a more than 20 percent performance improvement over the closest competing product in its class. With the HD 5670, AMD also said panoramic computing has hit the mainstream. The latest in ATI Eyefinity technology lets gamers use up to three displays with a single ATI Radeon HD 5670 graphics card to offer an immersive gaming experience. Finally, AMD said ATI Stream technology speeds up video transcoding and…

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