AMD Radeon HD 5970

The AMD Radeon HD 5970 is a high-end dual-GPU graphics card launched on November 18, 2009, with an MSRP of $599. It is built on the TeraScale 2 architecture and uses the Hemlock GPU chip fabricated on a 40 nm process. The card features 1600 shading units, a base clock of 725 MHz, and 2 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus, delivering a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s. It supports DirectX 11.0 and OpenGL 4.5, and connects via a PCIe 2.1 x16 interface. With a board power (TDP) of 294 W, it requires a robust power supply. The HD 5970 was designed for demanding gaming and professional applications, often used in multi-GPU configurations.