AMD partners are working on a dual-core R800 card, codenamed Hemlock and from what we learned, the card should launch in late November.

Samples are in the works and cards are in development and the Radeon 5970 should be the brand for the top card, but since we are not aware of any boxes with this brand, this can easily change.

Once it launches this dual card will officially be the fastest card on the market, but only until Nvidia unveils its dual Fermi card that is also expected by early December. ATI might be the fastest only for a few weeks, but we are quite sure that both dual cards will have a lot of availability issues throughout 2009 and probably in early 2010 as well.