If you have been following the news and reviews lately you will have assuredly seen mention of nVidia’s stellar new ‘mass market’ Fermi card the GTX460 – KitGuru reviewed the overclocked eVGA version and it walked away with very high praise indeed. While it is capable of delivering a fantastic gaming experience it only costs around £175 and the upside of this is that ATI have been forced to reduce some of their own prices to help keep the market competitive.
This means that if you are in the market for a new graphics card and can’t stretch to the GTX460 asking price then the card on review today might very well tickle your tastebuds. With the reference HD5770 on offer now for £130, there has never been a more affordable time to get into DX11 gaming. Read more…
PowerColor has been providing for the water-cooling crowd with its LCS graphics cards for some time now. The range is about to get a little bigger, though, with the release of the handsomely-overclocked LCS HD5870 V2.
The company already offers a Radeon HD 5870 with a water-block, but this new revision increases the clock speed to an impressive 950MHz for the core. This compares to 875MHz for the older LCS version and 850MHz for stock models. Bizarrely, though, the 1GB GDDR5 seems to have had its speed decreased, dropping from 1250MHz (5,000MHz effective) on the original model to the stock-speed of 1,200MHz. Read more…
MSI prepared a new graphics card for HTPC users: it’s the DirectX 11-capable low-profile Radeon HD 5670, based on ATI’s Redwood 40nm GPU. It features 400 stream processors and this time MSI managed to squeeze 512MB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 128-bit memory interface on this low profile PCB. It features Military Class components like All Solid Capacitors and Solid State Chokes, seen on MSI’s latest graphics cards.
The card uses a dual fan cooling solution, which might keep the temps down and hopefully it won’t be too noisy, either. The new card comes with D-Sub, DVI and HDMI outputs and should hit the retail pretty soon.
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Taiwanese tech firm MSI has answered the prayers of Home Theatre PC-owners looking to turn their slimline set-ups into veritable games machines, releasing a low-profile Radeon HD 5670 graphics card.
Most low-profile graphics cards work on the principle that video playback is more important than gaming power, and accordingly feature cut-down GPUs and a narrow 64-bit memory interface.
However, MSI’s R5670-PD512 features a DirectX 11 GPU with 400 stream processors, as well as a 128-bit memory interface. The latter is hooked up to 512MB of 4,040MHz (effective) GDDR5 memory, while the GPU itself is clocked at 775MHz.
It might not be a patch on the specs of AMD and Nvidia’s top-end DirectX 11 chips, but it’s still a healthy dose of gaming power. You shouldn’t have any trouble playing Fallout 3 or Call of Duty: World at War at 1,680 x 1,050, for example, although current games won’t be happy about you pushing the resolution any further. Read more…
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The Gigabyte HD 5770 Super Overclock provides us with “Ultra Durable” components, cherry-picked GPUs, higher GPU frequencies, and a new cooling solution. With all that, does it wipe the floor with a Radeon HD 5770? How about GBT’s claims comparing its card to the aging GTX 260? We put it to the test.
Gigabyte is familiar to most PC hardware enthusiasts. It was founded in 1986 by a team of eight electronics engineers. At first, they specialized only in motherboard design. In a few short years, it expanded its product lineup to include graphics cards, notebooks, communications equipment, network servers, computer chassis’, and plethora of PC components. Read more…
TUL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AMD graphics cards, introduced an innovative cooling technology into the PCS+ HD5770 series: the PCS+ HD5770 Vortex Edition. This special edition offers the flexibility for users to manually adjust the fan and its physical attributes, providing better air flow to effectively cool down the temperature up to 15°C when compare to reference design.
The PCS+ HD5770 Vortex Edition also features factory overclocking with core and memory clocks at 900 MHz and 1225 MHz respectively. With the cooling ability seen in the Vortex Edition, it allows more headroom for overclocking that maximizes performance releasing more potential for gaming power. Read more…
Are you looking for a new video card for your system? If you’re looking for something that’s going to be able to play just about all the games out there; but maximum settings are not a requirement, you may just be in luck with two of the newest budget cards from Sapphire. They have just released their HD 5670 Ultimate and the HD 5550 overclocked cards. These cards use ATI’s new GPUs to allow for DX11 gaming which is what these cards are designed to allow you to do.
It is always a constant battle between all of the mainstream budget cards, so I am very curious to see exactly how these cards will stack up against the competition in their class.
The packaging for the Sapphire Radeon HD 5670 Ultimate is completely white, giving the product a very elegant overall look before you even open it up. The top left hand corner is where you are going to find the Sapphire logo printed and as you move over to the right hand corner, you will see the ArcSoft SimHD plugin tag as well as the 1GB GDDR5 tag. Read more…
Club 3D announced a special Radeon HD 5450 graphics card, which it claims, can support up to three displays working in an Eyefinity setup for productivity purposes. ATI Eyefinity technology lets you create a large display head using multiple physical displays, and is typically out of specs for the Radeon HD 5400 series GPUs. Based on the 40 nm Cedar die, the HD 5450 packs 80 stream processors, and supports DirectX 11. The Club 3D card packs 512 MB of DDR2 memory across a 64-bit wide memory interface.
To connect up to three displays, it provides one each of DVI, D-Sub, and DisplayPort connectors. The GPU is clocked at 650 MHz, with the memory at 800 MHz. The card is low-profile in design, and with its passive heatsink, occupies just one expansion slot. Low profile brackets are included in the box. Club 3D did not announce its price.
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It is not an everyday occurrence that FedEx drops off box that was overnight mailed containing a $1200 video card, but that is what happened when we got the ASUS ARES video card yesterday! ASUS called it ARES after the Greek God of War and that was the right name to pick as this card features a unique design that slaps two ATI Radeon HD 5870 GPUs with 4GB of GDDR5 memory on a single PCB! We burnt the midnight oil spending as much time as we could with the card before the NDA lifted on it this morning.
To be honest we haven’t even had the card 16 hours, but since ASUS wanted to give us less than 24 hours to do a full video card review this is what we could muster up for you. Get ready to take a look at the most expensive single graphics card that money can buy today.
ASUS ARES Limited Edition Video Card Box
The ASUS ARES has been seen at various events for many months now and is a custom video card that ASUS designed off an ATI prototype video card called Petunia. Read more…
At PowerColor’s Facebook page there are some pictures and details regarding the upcoming HD 5770 Vortex card, with the new Vortex cooler bringing similar cooling performance to the cooler seen on PCS+ cards.
For starters, Powercolor will use this cooler on the HD 5770 card, while there are some plans to introduce some other cards with the same cooler, but those are still in R&D stage. Vortex cooler will have the same cooling performance as the PCS+ cooler launched a while back due to its triple-slot design. The card might end up to be factory overclocked, but that’s still unconfirmed. In any case, there should be a lot of overclocking potential. The new Powercolor HD 5770 should be available pretty soon and should have a price tag similar to the PCS+ branded card.
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To retain modest pricing, it’s common to see lower-end graphics cards equipped with either DDR2 or DDR3. That design choice, though, can have a major effect on performance, something that’s proven twice over with AMD’s Radeon HD 5550 and HD 5570, both of which have just been upgraded with a move to GDDR5 memory.
In the early months of 2010, it became clear that AMD had the intention of not just painting the town red, but keeping it that way for a while. It accomplished this with not just one GPU launch, and not even two… but five, spanning across a month and a half. Of these, most were budget models, from the Radeon HD 5450 up to the HD 5670; the exception being the mainstream HD 5830.
On February 9th in particular, AMD launched the HD 5550 and HD 5570, also known as Redwood LE and PRO, respectively. At that time, the HD 5570 seemed to be the main focus, because for months past that launch, I had forgotten all about the HD 5550. In a rarity, AMD didn’t send out samples for that model, so it itself didn’t seem to value the card that highly.
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Being an United States based website, Legit Reviews does still manage to gets its hands on some hardware from other continents, in this case we are looking at a video card from AXLE 3D in Hong Kong. AXLE has distributors all across the globe from Malaysia to Germany to Indonesia and many other countries but is really trying to make a name for itself in North America.
The video card we received direct from Hong Kong is the AXLE Radeon HD 5670 1GB. The Radeon HD 5670 is considered to be on the low end of the mid-range or budget market and is available between $80-$120. Not everyone has the same idea of “budget”, but we classify the $80-$170 category as the budget/mid-range sector. Read more…
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The HIS HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo X offers us a new cooling solution and higher frequencies, but is that enough to outdo the tried and true reference Radeon HD 5870 and a GeForce GTX 480? We put it to the test in Splinter Cell Conviction, Metro 2033, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Aliens vs. Predators, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Furmark for our power and temperature testing.
HIS (Hightech Information System) was established with a mission to produce the highest quality PC components. Founded in 1987 they gained much of their fame in the video card market in 2003 and onward with their introduction of the IceQ video card line. Today they are an ATI Authorized 1st Tier AIB Partner, Certified Partner, and Launching Partner. It should be no surprise that most of their products focus on the PC video card market. Read more…
I do not know about you but sometimes when I go shopping for computer hardware, I prefer to find a product that is factory overclocked. Part of the reason for choosing factory overclocked hardware is that it saves me the trouble of spending hours of testing the best overclocking setting that can be attained. Factory overclocked hardware also has advantage of carrying the full warranty at the overclocked setting, and often comes with a better cooling solution.
Overclocking a current graphic card is not too hard but it is just easier to choose an overclocked card if the price difference is not too big. For mainstream users, the AMD Radeon HD 5770 is the best card on the market at approximately $150. The card offers impressive performance at resolution up to 1920×1200 with plenty of features. While the card may not be faster than the older generation HD 4870, it does carries something that the older card does not have: full DirectX 11 and Eyefinity support. There are many factory overclocked HD 5770 cards that are available and we have reviewed a couple of them already: Sapphire 5770 Vapor X and MSI R5770 HAWK. Gigabyte is the latest company that offers an overclocked HD 5770 that the company is putting their Super Overclocked branding on.
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When the 5000 series was first released, there was absolutely no competition. ATI had single handedly blown the green team away with crazy benchmark results and DX11 support. Now that the long awaited Fermi cards from nVidia have been released, sporting similar results, the deeply entrenched 5000 series lines have been deploying variations beyond stock models and individual manufacturers such as Asus, have been integrating more advanced solutions to help enthusiasts get the most bang for their buck.
With the EAH5870 V2, Asus has integrated a custom copper heat-pipe cooler, voltage tweak integration, and a beefier fan to handle the higher TDP rating of the heatsink. Hopefully this will yield a cooler card that shows higher clocks for a healthy boost above the competition, but only time will tell. If you are out to buy a new graphics card, is this the one for you? Let’s check it out!
The packaging for the EAH5870 is very engaging, sporting a large knight in massive armor on an orange lightning-filled background. Read more…
Last year AMD released their new Radeon HD 5800 Series of graphics cards which quickly became a big success due to the numerous improvements made over previous generations. Over the course of the last months AMD has completed their DirectX 11 lineup quickly, the Radeon HD 5670 was unveiled on Jan 14. It is based on AMD’s Redwood graphics processor which is made in a 40 nm process at TSMC Taiwan.
HD 5670 cards can be found around a $100 price point, which is a tough market that is crowded with other cards like the GeForce GT 240, 9600 GT and 9800 GT. AMD’s own products here are HD 4770, HD 4830 and HD 4850.
AXLE, who is one of the few companies to make both NVIDIA and ATI cards, has designed a HD 5670 that uses a custom PCB design and own cooling solution. One major product highlight is certainly the 1 GB of GDDR5 memory, which is twice that of the reference design which comes only with 512 MB. Another interesting aspect is the cooler, which uses a fan by Arctic Cooling who provide low-noise, high-performance cooler
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One of the new features of the HD5xxxx series of video cards is Eyefinity, the technique that allows you to hook up several monitors to the video card and have the OS see it as one big monitor. While regular HD5xxx cards can support up to 3 monitors the ultimate Eyefinity experience can only be had with a HD5870 Eyefinity6 Edition video card which, as its name implies, supports up to 6 monitors at the same time.
AMD was kind enough to lend us 6 monitors so we could test one of these cards and in today’s review we test to see if the XFX HD5870 Eyefinity6 Edition video card together with 6 nice Dell monitors indeed does deliver the ultimate gaming experience.
The ability to hook up more than one monitor to your video card is not really a new feature and has been possible for many years regardless if you have been using an ATI/AMD card, a NVIDIA card or a card from any of the other minor players. Read more…
With a TDP of around 61W, Sapphire is reaching an upper limit on what passive cooling can do in a still-air environment. Any more, such as a passive cooler on the 5750 (86W TDP as standard), would require significant engineering of the cooler and heatpipes to keep it passive – such as the dual slot Gigabyte HD5750 Silent Cell, which is a passive 5750, but has a massive cooling and heatpipe arrangement, as well as a 6-pin power requirement.
Featuring stock HD5670 clocks of 775MHz core, 1GHz memory (4GHz effective), 400 stream processors and 1GB of DDR5 memory, the HD5670 is marketed as the fastest silently cooled graphics card ‘available today’ – though we can’t find it on sale yet, and the Gigabyte 5750 Silent Cell is on sale, under it’s code GV-R575SL-1GI.
The HD5670 Ultimate isn’t necessarily aimed at the HTPC market, as it isn’t low profile, but we could see a use in larger ‘HTPC/Home Server’ combinations, as well as mainstream desktop computers, and gaming machines, where silence is a large part of the build. We expect the HD5670 Ultimate to retail around $125/£95, which is at a slight premium over the majority of the current HD5670 cards available.
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If you absolutely need 2 GB of video memory to talk about in your rig, Club3D developed an easy means to get there. Its latest ATI Radeon HD 5550 variant boasts of 2 GB of DDR3 memory across a 128-bit wide memory interface, and some out of the box overclocked speeds. The single-slot full-height card uses an active GPU cooler, and draws all its power from the PCI-E slot.
The DirectX 11 compliant Radeon HD 5550 GPU has 320 stream processors, and a 128-bit wide memory interface, with clock speeds of 650 MHz core, 1200 MHz (2400 MHz effective) memory. Display connectivity includes one each of DVI-D, D-Sub, and HDMI. Club3D did not give out a price.
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Recently we revisited the battle between the high-end Nvidia GeForce GTX 400 and ATI Radeon HD 5000 graphics cards series using updated drivers and a new testing method that saw us abolish all time demos.
The results were a little unexpected, as the GeForce GTX 480 delivered results that were closer to the Radeon HD 5870 than we had previously seen. For the most part the GeForce GTX 480 was still faster, however when taking into consideration price, power consumption, and operating temperatures the Radeon HD 5870 simply makes more sense from a value perspective.The face off between the more affordable Radeon HD 5850 and GeForce GTX 470 was even more one sided, with ATI’s card delivering better performance, operating efficiency and much better bang for your buck in the games we tested. Read more…