Today AMD is officially unveiling their new Radeon HD 5870 and 5850 GPUs, designed to deliver significantly more performance than previous generation products. The Radeon HD 5870 is taking a run at the performance crown and is the first high-end GPU to use the 40nm design process. So get ready for a round of benchmarks, as we put these new GPUs to the test...

The new ATI Radeon HD 5870 is a seriously impressive graphics card, delivering a level of performance and efficiency previous unseen from a single-GPU graphics card. Having pushed the Radeon HD 5870 though 15 different games at 3 different resolutions, we can safely say that this is without question the fastest single-GPU graphics card money can buy.