November 4th, 2010
PowerColor Radeon AX5770 1GBD5-PPGV2 Review @ BenchmarkReviews
A little over a year after the initial introduction of the Radeon HD 5770, PowerColor is still tweaking their take on what was then a revolutionary card for the mid-range price segment. Benchmark Reviews has the PowerColor AX5770 1GBD5-PPGV2 and has tested it’s performance against the mid-range offering from NVIDIA, the GeForce GTS 450.
The PowerColor Radeon HD 5770 is a PCS+ video card. These are video cards that PowerColor has factory overclocked to improve performance. With a clock speed of 875MHz and memory overclocked to 1225MHz, the PowerColor Radeon HD 5770 PPGV2 is ready to game, and the 2nd-edition version we’ve received comes packaged with a coupon for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Follow along as Benchmark Reviews disassembles and tests the PowerColor Radeon HD 5770 PPGV2 video card.
The Radeon HD 5770 is a well known card by now. It is built around the “Juniper” GPU which is roughly half that of a “Cypress” GPU that the Radeon HD 5800 series is built on. The ATI Radeon HD 5000 series revolutionized the graphics world by becoming the first readily available GPUs with DirectX-11 functionality. While this put AMD one step ahead of NVIDIA in capability, not many DX11 titles were available when the Radeon HD 5000 series debuted. Now, however, DX11 is a standard name, and with the prices of the HD 5000 series falling due to competition from NVIDIA’s Fermi GPUs, it’s unlikely that users will be looking much at older DX10 video cards when considering an upgrade or the purchase of a new computer.
