AMD official- Yes there’s scarcity of HD 5000 series

Twinkle — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:28:13 +0000

Fudzilla interviewed AMD Product Manager Dave Baumann, in which he confessed that the outfit was facing serious shortages of all HD 5000 series product. He also added that there were certain problems in production with TSMC and was not in control by AMD. The production will surely take new turn in next few weeks. He also committed to increase its delivery to the fullest. The manager further said that, company is still on track to introduce Redwood and Cedar products in Q1 2010.

ATI Radeon HD 5970 dual-GPU specs unveiled

Twinkle — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:58:25 +0000

Fudzilla unmasked the specs of ATI Radeon HD 5970 dual-GPU, yet to be released officially. The HD 5970 packs dual RV870 runs @ 725MHz and 2GB of GDDR5 RAM runs @ 1000MHz on dual 256-bit buses. After reading it once you may recognize they are HD 5850 clocks, which is very much right. Also the HD 5970 has 2 x 1600 stream processors and 2 x 80 texture units, which are two times more than that of HD 5870. It is also heard that an acute scarcity of the HD 5000-series cards is faced by AMD. No information about the power consumption levels. However, Hemlock will still remain the king for AMD’s GPU performances.

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AMD official- Yes there’s scarcity of HD 5000 series

ATI Radeon HD 5970 dual-GPU specs unveiled