ATI rises once again

AMD launched the latest ATI Radeon series today, the 5970.  Sporting 3200 stream processors, and 40nm arc, it’s fast as fuck, and doesn’t chew up a ton of power.  Unfortunately, this also marks the day that top of the line is going to cost you quite a bit more.  IF you can find one (I couldn’t after searching for 3 hours) expect to pay 500-600 bucks.  And thats just for 1.  I would expect the prices to come down a bit closer to fake jesus birthday, but they will still most likely be in the 400+ range.

Features & Benefits

• Get unrivalled visual quality and intense gaming performance and for today and tomorrow with support for Microsoft® DirectX® 11
• Expand your visual real estate across up to three displays and get lost in the action with ATI Eyefinity Technology. ^4,5
• Using ATI Stream technology, accelerate even the most demanding applications and do more than ever with your PC.⁶
• Enable rich, realistic visuals with explosive performance so you can dominate your gaming competition.
• State of the art overclocking capabilities give you the control and flexibility to tune your rig for maximum performance and unleash its true potential³
• ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode with support for up to 4 GPU’s⁷
• Ultra-high bandwidth GDDR5 memory

Anyway, you can see the benchmarks here.