The guys over at Alienbabeltech.com managed to get their hands on exclusive pictures and benchmarks of ATI’s up and coming high-end HD 5970 GPU. The abnormally gigantic dual-GPU HD 5970 measures at 13.5 inches long, and has issues fitting in even an Antec 1200. ATI notes that, as this is an engineering sample, pictures and benchmarks are in no way a final representation of the card. Hopefully, the final version that hits the shelves isn’t this huge.

This card was benchmarked and used on stock speeds on a system with the following specifications:

• Asus P6T Deluxe v2
• Intel Core i7 920 @ 4016 Mhz
• Patriot Viper 1600 MHz 6GB Triple Channel Kit @ 1700 MHz
• Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Alienbabeltech pulled the benchmark results from their news post at ATI’s request, however, with a little digging, I managed to find them posted on Tweakers.net (click to enlarge all images):

The specifications revealed in the GPU-Z screenshots and the above benchmarks are no representation of the final product—they will likely be different. Also, with final and better drivers, performance may also be much better than seen above. Here are the pictures of the actual card (click to enlarge all):

The HD 5970 uses one 6 pin and one 8 pin power connector. According to tweakers.net, word on the street is that this card will hit the shelves some time in November with a price tag of $500. Again, the above pictures and benchmarks do NOT represent the final product.