According to reports, AMD is planning to come out with an amazingly powerful graphics card. The Radeon HD 5870 is the latest member in ATI's Radeon series, featuring 50% more shader units and higher clock frequencies. Basically, AMD is planning to launch two GPUs, a single core HD 5870 and a dual core HD 5870 X2. Nothing is official over here, but it seems the cards will feature 1200 shaders, 48 texture units, and support for DirectX 11.

Specification (HD 5870):

• 900MHz GPU clock
• 1100MHz memory clock
• 2160 Gflops performance
• 43.200 MT/s texture filtrate
• 28.800 MP/s pixel filtrate
• 140.8 GB/s bandwidth

Specification (HD 5870 X2):

• 2x 950MHz GPU clock
• 2x 1150MHz memory clock
• 2x 2280 Gflops performance
• 2x 45.600 MT/s texture filtrate
• 2x 30.400 MP/s pixel filtrate
• 2x 147.2 GB/s bandwidth

[via nordichardware]