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ATI Radeon HD 5850
$270.00
Released September, 2009
The Pros:DirectX 11 compatible. ATI Eyefinity - supports triple display setups on a single card. Shorter in length than the monster 5870.
The Cons:Poor availability and price gouging since its introduction. High price. Powerful card demands large amounts of energy under load (requires dual 6-pin PCIe power connections).
The ATI Radeon HD 5850 is a high-end graphics card released in September 2009. Supporting up to three displays, the 1GB GDDR5 GPU incorporates a long list of advanced technologies, including ATI Stream, enabling large-scale parallel processing, and ATI CrossFireX, which provides scalability with multi-GPU support.
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The HD 5850 is also one of the first cards to support DirectX 11. It is a minor step down from the top-of-the-line model, the HD 5870, which offers even higher clock frequencies and memory bandwidth.
Features
- 1 GB GDDR5 memory (128.0GB/s memory bandwidth)
- 2.15 billion 40nm transistors
- 1440 stream processor units
- 2.09TFLOP processing power
- 725MHz engine clock
- DirectX 11
- PCI Express 2.1
- OpenGL 3.2
- ATI Eyefinity multi-display capability
- ATI Stream parallel processing
- ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU support
- ATI PowerPlay power management
- 151W maximum board power
- 27W idle board power
User Reviews (9)
Pros & Cons
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ATI Eyefinity - supports triple display setups on a single card
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shorter in length than the monster 5870
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can play all the latest games at full resolutions with all the effects
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dual DVI output, DisplayPort, HDMI
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built on the latest 40nm fabrication process - cheaper, more energy efficient, produces less heat, allows for faster / more powerful chips
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2
comes with 1GB of the latest and greatest DDR5 memory
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sips power and remains cool at idle
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improved stock cooling solution from previous generations - keeps the card cool while not being overly loud
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poor availability and price gouging since its introduction
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powerful card demands large amounts of energy under load (requires dual 6-pin PCIe power connections)
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