*  956 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
    * PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
    * 256-bit GDDR3/4/5 memory interface
    * Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support
          o Shader Model 4.1
          o 32-bit floating point texture filtering
          o Indexed cube map arrays
          o Independent blend modes per render target
          o Pixel coverage sample masking
          o Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders
          o Gather4 texture fetching
    * Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
          o 800 stream processing units
                + Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
                + Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders
                + Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors
          o 128-bit floating point precision for all operations
          o Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
          o Shader instruction and constant caches
          o Up to 160 texture fetches per clock cycle
          o Up to 128 textures per pixel
          o Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
          o DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
          o High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
          o Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
          o Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
          o Re-Z, and Z Range optimization
          o Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
          o Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
          o Up to 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing
          o Accelerated physics processing
    * Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
          o High performance vertex cache
          o Programmable tessellation unit
          o Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
          o Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
    * Anti-aliasing features
          o Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel)
          o Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
          o Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
          o Gamma correct
          o Super AA (ATI CrossFireX™ configurations only)
          o All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
    * Texture filtering features
          o 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
          o 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
          o sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
          o Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
          o Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
          o Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support
    * OpenGL 3.2 support
    * ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform6
          o Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) for H.264/AVC, VC-1, and MPEG-2 video formats
                + High definition (HD) playback of Blu-ray and HD DVD video
                + Dual stream (HD+SD) playback support
                + DirectX Video Acceleration 1.0 & 2.0 support
                + Support for BD-Live certified applications
          o Hardware DivX and MPEG-1 video decode acceleration
          o Accelerated video transcoding & encoding for H.264 and MPEG-2 formats
          o ATI Avivo Video Post Processor6
                + Color space conversion
                + Chroma subsampling format conversion
                + Horizontal and vertical scaling
                + Gamma correction
                + Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
                + De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
                + Detail enhancement
                + Color vibrance and flesh tone correction
                + Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
                + Bad edit correction
                + Enhanced DVD upscaling (SD to HD)
                + Automatic dynamic contrast adjustment
          o Two independent display controllers
                + Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display
                + Full 30-bit display processing
                + Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion
                + Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays
                + High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs
                + Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
                + Fast, glitch-free mode switching
                + Hardware cursor
          o Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs
                + Each supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)2
                + Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content3
          o Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
                + Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x15362
          o DisplayPort output support
                + 24- and 30-bit displays at all resolutions up to 2560x16002
          o HDMI output support
                + All display resolutions up to 1920x10802
                + Integrated HD audio controller with support for stereo and multi-channel (up to 7.1) audio formats, including AC-3, AAC, DTS, DTS-HD & Dolby True-HD4, enabling a plug-and-play audio solution over HDMI
          o Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder
                + Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite)
                + Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions
                + Underscan and overscan compensation
          o Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
          o VGA mode support on all display outputs
    * ATI PowerPlay™ Technology5
          o Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings
          o Performance-on-Demand
                + Clock and memory speed throttling
                + Voltage switching
                + Dynamic clock gating
                + Central thermal management – on-chip sensor monitors GPU temperature and triggers thermal actions as required
          o ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology
                + Scale up rendering performance and image quality with two, three, or four GPUs
                + Integrated compositing engine
                + High performance dual channel bridge interconnect1