ATI Radeon 5870 and 5870X2 specs revealed?

BSN: "German site ATI-Forum probably scored a coup of 2009 – according to their sources, ATI’s RV870-based cards are already out at selected partners.

We cannot say was this leak was a reaction on our joint-exclusive story about nVidia’s GT300 architecture, but one thing is for sure – ATI wants to bring out their Cypress board as soon as possible – planned for July 2009.

The alleged specifications of RV870 reveal that this chip is not exactly a new architecture, but rather a DirectX 11-specification tweak of the RV770 GPU architecture. Just like nVidia’s GT300 architecture, the actual RV870 chip is manufactured in TSMC’s 40nm half-node process, packing more transistors than GT200 chips. Regardless of what ATI says about nVidia and large dies, the fact of the matter is that ATI is making a large die as well – but the company will continue to use the dual-GPU approach to reach high-end performance."