PoweColor HD5770 Evolution offers the Cross-Vender Multi-GPU and Multi-Display capabilities, which allows user to enjoy the multi GPU experience with different level and brand graphics card in single system.

About Hydra Technology
Hydra is a solution that allows increasing graphical performance of PCs, laptops and workstations while reducing the graphical processing load from the main processing unit. The solution enables utilizing in the most efficient way multiple graphical processors that are located in the device. With frame-by-frame processing and distribution of graphical tasks within each frame to different graphic processors, HYDRA has become the leading technology in graphic enhancement. Its ability to work in parallel with each of the graphic processors, HYDRA's response time ensures a superb 3D user experience. >> more
Any GPU Combination : The Unique A/X-Mode:
The Best Performance complement:

Multi-Display Gaming Experences

→ Experience Eyefinity
System Requirements for A/X-Mode:
| |
Windows Vista (SP2) 32-bit |
Windows Vista (SP2) 64-bit |
Windows 7 32-bit |
Windows 7 64-bit |
| A-Mode |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| X-Mode |
N/A |
N/A |
Yes |
Yes |
- PCI Express based PC is required with two X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
- Install HYDRALOGIX Driver and graphic card driver before running any graphic application; recommended to restart the system after every driver installation
- Please update Hydra driver constantly for performance maximization
- 1.04 billion 40nm transistors
- TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
- 800 Stream Processing Units
- 40 Texture Units
- 64 Z/Stencil ROP Units
- 16 Z/Stencil ROP Units
- GDDR5 memory interface
- PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
- DirectX® 11 support
- Shader Model 5.0
- DirectCompute 11
- Programmable hardware tessellation unit
- Accelerated multi-threading
- HDR texture compression
- Order-independent transparency
- OpenGL 3.2 support1
- Image quality enhancement technology
- Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
- Adaptive anti-aliasing
- 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
- 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
- ATI Stream acceleration technology
- OpenCL 1.0 compliant
- DirectCompute 11
- Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling4,5
- Native support for common video encoding instructions
- ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology6
- Dual, triple, and quad GPU scaling
- Dual-channel bridge interconnect
- ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology7
- UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
- Advanced post-processing and scaling8
- Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
- Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)
- Independent video gamma control
- Dynamic video range control
- Support for H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2
- Dual-stream 1080p playback support9,10
- DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
- Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP11
- Max resolution: 2560x160012
- Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
- Max resolution: 1920x120012
- Integrated VGA output
- Max resolution: 2048x153612
- Integrated HD audio controller
- Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
- Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio format
- ATI PowerPlay™ power management technology7
- Dynamic power management with low power idle state
- Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations
- Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP
- Driver support scheduled for release in 2010
- Driver version 8.66 (Catalyst 9.10) or above is required to support ATI Eyefinity technology and to enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector
- ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for panning across three displays
- Requires application support for ATI Stream technology
- Digital rights management restrictions may apply
- ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card)and may require a specialized power supply
- ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo™ and ATI Stream are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products
- Upscaling subject to available monitor resolution
- Blu-ray or HD DVD drive and HD monitor required
- Requires Blu-ray movie disc supporting dual 1080p streams
- Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components, including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, Blu-ray or HD DVD disc drive,multimedia application and computer operating system.
- Some custom resolutions require user configuration
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