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But AMD had a secret weapon: the (codenamed Hemlock). They simply glued two Cypress chips onto one board via a PLX bridge chip. The HD 5970 was a dual-GPU monster that became the fastest graphics card on the planet for over a year. It was so fast that it held the performance crown until NVIDIA’s GTX 580 launched a full year later.

The flagship chip was codenamed . The Launch: December 2009 – The Bombshell On December 15, 2009, AMD unveiled the Radeon HD 5870 . amd radeon hd 5000

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. But AMD had a secret weapon: the (codenamed Hemlock)

AMD lost the lead again for several years, struggling with the Radeon R200 and R300 series against NVIDIA’s Maxwell and Pascal. But the spirit of Evergreen—the idea that a scrappy underdog could leapfrog a giant with bold engineering and perfect timing—lives on. It’s the same DNA that would later give us the Ryzen CPU revolution in 2017. Today, a working Radeon HD 5870 is a museum piece. You can buy one on eBay for $30. It can’t run modern AAA games at high settings. But fire up Crysis (2007), Portal 2 , or Skyrim on an HD 5870, and it still sings. It was so fast that it held the