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The engineering challenge was brutal. To be first, they had to tape out (finalize the design) on a brand-new, unproven 40nm manufacturing process from TSMC. The previous 55nm process was stable, but 40nm was plagued with high leakage and low yields. They also had to pack nearly 2.15 billion transistors onto a die not much larger than a postage stamp.

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. amd radeon hd 5000

The flagship chip was codenamed . The Launch: December 2009 – The Bombshell On December 15, 2009, AMD unveiled the Radeon HD 5870 . The engineering challenge was brutal

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. They also had to pack nearly 2

The HD 5000 series was more than a product. It was a statement: Never count AMD out. And for one glorious year—from December 2009 to late 2010—they were the undisputed kings of the graphics card world. The dragon had been slain, and the legend of Evergreen was written.