[Kal-EL]

Originally Posted by techpowerup

AMD Cypress Graphics Accelerator Pictured
Here's the first sighting of a fully-assembled upcoming AMD Cypress "Radeon HD 5870" accelerator. This photo-shoot comes a couple of days ahead of its unveiling to the press tomorrow. Here's our very first thoughts on what we see:

• The accelerator is unusually long for a single-GPU one from AMD. The company wouldn't splurge too much on aesthetics (especially lengthening the PCB), if there's no need for it to do so. Apparently there is.
• Connectivity options galore. With two DVI-D, and one each of DisplayPort and HDMI, AMD promises it can handle three display-heads per GPU.
• The components behind the GPU area (exposed) indicates the GPU to be somewhat large
• History tells us that AMD uses a backplate only if it finds a real utility in it, such as cooling additional memory chips or VRM components. This card has a large, almost full-coverage backplate.

What surfaced months ago on sources such as ChipHell, which was then ridiculed for accuracy, has finally taken shape. If anything, Cypress does look like it means business. Expect further details to be out soon. Cypress is codename for AMD's next-generation DirectX 11 compliant graphics processor in the high-performance segment.</LI itxtvisited="1">

Source: Tweakers.net

New tings from AMD

[FACE]

It is a thing of expensive beauty!

"... a couple of days ahead of its unveiling to the press tomorrow." Too funny.

[Buckeye]

Now this looks interesting ...

[Neuromancer]

Is that taken from a foreign article or something? I have not heard a video card be called a Grpahics accelerator for some time. (Or is it actually meant to be used in tandem with...)


3 Heads on a single GPU is sweet, hopefully they will continue this idea

[Kal-EL]

Yah, these jiveturkey journalist constantly switch between accelerator graphic card and GPU. I think accelerator is only used when they want you to think "FAST". lol

[punx223]

dude i wanna see specs!!!! 32nm FTW?