[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for
this link. ]
“The Radeon HD 5000 series graphics processors
introduce support for Microsoft DirectX 11. Of course, to a Linux
user this does not mean much, but this is one of the areas being
heavily publicized by AMD in their marketing material. The Radeon
HD 5000 series though is compatible with OpenGL 3.2. Some of the
other features that are shared between the HD 5700 and HD 5800
series are ATI Eyefinity, Stream Technology, OpenCL, TeraScale2,
PCI Express 2.1 x16, and UVD2. While AMD has shown a 24-monitor
Eyefinity setup on Linux, the support has yet to arrive in their
proprietary Catalyst Linux driver. The Unified Video Decoder 2
(UVD2) support with ATI Avivo HD may also be ignored by Linux users
at this time, as we have been talking about the X-Video Bitstream
Acceleration (XvBA) for a year now and it still has yet to be
usable by ATI Radeon customers, but it finally will be in the very
near future. UVD2 in ATI Radeon hardware will finally mean
something on Linux, but we will have to wait to share more until
permitted. AMD will also be marketing the HD 5770 as a “green”
graphics card with only 18 Watts of power being consumed while
idling, 108 Watts max power consumption, leading performance/Watt,
and the graphics cards only requiring one 6-pin PCI-E power
connector.”