DirectX 11 and the Radeon 5000 series have finally hit the mainstream market in the form of the Radeon HD 5670 graphics card. Priced at a mainstream $99 USD ($110 CDN / £65GBP), it’s the most affordable way to experience DirectX11 hardware features like hardware tessellation and compute shaders.

Gigabyte has designed a slightly overclocked (+10MHz) version of the Radeon HD 5670 videocard called the GV-567OC-1GI. ATI has produced several ‘sweet spot’ videocards over the past year like the Radeon HD 4870, 4850 and 4770, and through aggressive pricing and new manufacturing techniques ATI has managed to get all of these videocards into that $100-$150 ‘sweet spot’ that net excellent gaming performance at a cut-rate price. Will the GV-567OC-1GI be worthy to join such hallowed company?

Let’s start off with the heart of the Gigabyte GV-567OC-1GI PCI Express 2.0 x16 videocard, the Radeon HD 5670 GPU. Code-named “Redwood”, it’s based on the same “Evergreen” architecture that powers the rest of the Radeon 5000-series graphics cards, including the flagship Radeon 5870. Gigabyte’s GV-567OC-1GI videocard is thus blessed with 40 stream processors and a core clock of 785MHz (the default speed is 775MHz, but Gigabyte kicks it up a tiny bit).(…)

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