SAPPHIRE HD 5870 and Direct X 11 introduced by Bill Donnelly

Bill Donnelly from SAPPHIRE Technology introduces the SAPPHIRE HD 5870, the first graphics card to support Microsoft DirectX 11, and describes the advances in computing power and graphics quality that this new generation of cards brings to the PC. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sapphireukpr

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• SAPPHIRE
• HD 5870
• HD5870
• Bill Donnelly
• ATI Radeon
• DirectX 11
• DX 11
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• graphics
• PC

[5687678]

No, HD 5770 was the first card that supported DX11.

[SapphireUKPR]

@5687678 I'm afraid you are incorrect. The HD 5870 was released in September 2009 and the HD 5770 was released in October 2009 as you can see by the videos we have uploaded at the time of launch. The HD 5870 was indeed the first DX11 compatible card.

[dormantreign]

But it don't have CUDA which makes it useless to me for my adobe products.

[SapphireUKPR]

@dormantreign Most of the current generation of Adobe products support ATI Stream which is a superior technology to CUDA and comes built into the drivers which offloads the workload to the graphics card.

[Nefus2]

I ordered this card now! 5970 is way to expensive.

[ishnookie]

wussup Santa!

[brodygates]

ati vrs nvdia who would win......???

anyways how mush deffirent is this from 5850

[ixy1987]

QUICK QUESTION:

there are 2 different type of saphire 5870 excluding the vapor x version please help i dont know which 1 is the best !!! there is

(1) brick looking 5870

(2)curve design 5870

which 1 is better, pls reply !!!??

[Voldness]

@SapphireUKPR Its the same card with x2 gpu.

[yakfizzle]

@5687678 0o0o get told

[jeenormus]

ohh m geing one of these on monday  cant wait . going to be paired with a 6 core black edition 1090T 3.2ghz and 8 gb ram

[SapphireUKPR]

@Russ88765 The HD5970 is faster than the HD5870

[32ndegree]

@dormantreign Cheer for the green team all you like your graphics are shyte. I have 2 GTX 295 Running in sli and this is better on its own.????.