Visiontek Radeon HD 5850 Graphics Card

Prepare to experience a riveting high-definition gaming experience with ATI Radeon HD 5850 Series graphics processors. Expand your visual real estate across up to three displays and get lost in the action with revolutionary ATI Eyefinity Technology. Using ATI Stream technology, accelerate even the most demanding applications and do more than ever with your PC. The first to deliver full support for Microsoft DirectX 11, these GPUs enable rich, realistic visuals and explosive HD gaming performance so you can dominate the competition.<br>

Key Features and Benefits:

• Microsoft DirectX 11 support
  ATI Radeon HD 5850 Series GPUs fully support Microsoft DirectX 11.
• Tessellation
  Tessellation is now available to PC developers for real-time rendering with ultra-realistic characters and an incredible level of detail with 3D images.
• HDR texture compression
  HDR Texture compression delivers an intense level visual detail without increasing graphics memory footprint with efficiency and incredible image quality.
• Multi-threading support for DirectX 11
  It accelerates rendering by leveraging all the CPU cores to enable overall faster gaming performance.
• Expand with ATI Eyefinity technology
  ATI Eyefinity technology maximizes your field of view across up to three displays, fully engaging your peripheral vision and putting you right in the game. Unleash the massive parallel processing power of your GPU to help speed up your PC and do more. Extend your view of a game across up to three displays, that's as much as 12 megapixels for the ultimate gaming environment. Create the ultimate flight or racing simulation platform by extending supported games across multiple displays for a panoramic view that gives you a true sense of height and speed. Get a bird's-eye view and spread out game information across multiple screens and still stay in the center of the action. See more of the battlefield without having to zoom. Get a better view of what's going on around you, use your peripheral vision so you can see the enemy before they see you. The perfect solution for your home or office, ATI Eyefinity technology makes multi-tasking a snap by eliminating the need to flip between windows. Surf the internet, email, edit photos or videos, track your stocks and much more all at the same time. ATI Eyefinity technology is ideal for multimedia applications; it allows you to keep several 'palettes' or 'panels' open while you edit images or videos so video playback, editing and transferring content to portable media players is quick and easy.
• DirectCompute 11
  DirectCompute 11 helps improve PC performance by taking on some or all of a DirectX 11-enabled application's processing load, freeing up the computer's main processor to take on additional tasks. DirectX 11-enabled applications are designed for fast performance on your PC.
• ATI CrossFireX technology
  Increase your gaming performance up to 180% with ATI CrossFireX Technology in dual-mode.
• Enhanced anisotropic filtering
  Anisotropic filtering method is used for ultimate image quality and visuals for more immersive gaming.
• Accelerated video transcoding
  Native support for common transcoding instructions in each shader for motion estimation that accelerates video encoding.
• Display flexibility
  Enjoy a full range of display options natively on the board, including dual-link DVI-I, DisplayPort and HDMI More flexibility with the highest level of connectivity for the latest display technologies.
• ATI PowerPlay technology - enhanced support for GDDR5 memory
  Improved ATI PowerPlay technology capabilities with GDDR5 based boards including memory clock switching. Power draw scales according to activity so when GPU activity is low, the power draw is minimal.

What's Included:

• VisionTek Radeon HD 5850
• Drivers & Utilities