Amd Radeon Hd 5000 -

The flagship chip was codenamed . The Launch: December 2009 – The Bombshell On December 15, 2009, AMD unveiled the Radeon HD 5870 .

But behind closed doors in Markham, Ontario, a small, scrappy engineering team was about to pull off one of the greatest upsets in tech history. By early 2009, AMD’s graphics division knew they couldn't win by simply making a bigger, hotter, faster version of the existing architecture. They needed a revolution. The result was a new architecture codenamed "Evergreen" — the world’s first fully compliant DirectX 11 GPU. amd radeon hd 5000

The HD 5000 series was more than a product. It was a statement: Never count AMD out. And for one glorious year—from December 2009 to late 2010—they were the undisputed kings of the graphics card world. The dragon had been slain, and the legend of Evergreen was written. The flagship chip was codenamed