The ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards have been Wednesday launched by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) - these cards with 2.72 TeraFLOPS of compute power will run the most powerful graphics processor thus far launched by the company.

The new graphics card will be the first one to fully support the new Microsoft windows 7-equipped gaming and compute standard, Microsoft DirectX 11, in India.

Initially, AMD has released two cards: the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and the ATI Radeon HD 5850, both of which feature 1GB GDDR5 memory.

Going by a press release pertaining to the new graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series delivers two-times the performance-per-dollar of the existing generation of graphics products, and can thus bring about a twofold increase in the value expected from graphics cards.

The new ATI Radeon HD 5800 series products, featurint ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology, can help enhance and speed up the users' computing experience with ATI Stream technology, thereby resulting in a superior gaming performance to dominate gaming contests.

Commenting on the Radeon HD 5800 series, Anirban Chakravartti, Director of AMD'S Global Business Development (Professional Graphics), said: "Many applications are already designed to take advantage of the massive parallel processing capabilities of the GPU. To help this phenomenon, ATI Radeon HD 5800 is changing the game, both for the 'gamer' and the 'worker' in us."