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Date: December 21st, 2010
Article by: Nathan Glentworth (Owner / Head Editor)
Product was submitted by: PowerColor
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PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS & FEATURES (From PowerColor)

• 2.15 billion 40nm transistors

•  TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture

• 1600 Stream Processing Units

• 80 Texture Units

• 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units

• 32 Color ROP Units

• 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface
  

• 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 1

• Image quality enhancement technology

• Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes

• Adaptive anti-aliasing

• 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering

• 128-bit floating point HDR rendering

•  ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology 2,3

• Three independent display controllers

• Drive three displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays 

• Display grouping

• Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display

• ATI Eyefinity Technology requires a Display Port out of three outputs

• ATI Stream acceleration technology

• OpenCL 1.0 compliant

• DirectCompute 11

• Double precision floating point processing support

• Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling 4,5

• Native support for common video encoding instructions

• ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology 6

• Dual, triple, and quad GPU scaling

• Dual-channel bridge interconnect

• ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology 7

• UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator

• Advanced post-processing and scaling 8

• Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction

• Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)

• Independent video gamma control

• Dynamic video range control

• Support for H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2

• Dual-stream 1080p playback support 9,10

• DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support

• Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP 11

  • Max resolution: 2560x1600 12

• Integrated DisplayPort output

  • Max resolution: 2560x1600 12

• Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio

  • Max resolution: 1920x1200 12

• Integrated VGA output

  • Max resolution: 2048x1536 12

• Integrated HD audio controller

  • Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required

  • Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio format

• ATI PowerPlay™ power management technology 7

• Dynamic power management with low power idle state

• Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations

• Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP