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ATI Radeon HD 5870
$380.00
Released September, 2009
The Pros:DirectX 11. Triple Display Support. Low power consumption / TDP (27Watts idle).
The Cons:Large size - will not fit in some smaller cases. High price. DirectX 11 capabilities won't be in use for a while, might be outdated / slow by the time they are.
Released in September 2009, the ATI Radeon HD 5870 is AMD's top-of-the-line graphics card. 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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Built to enable maximum performance in the most demanding of today's games, the HD 5870 is also one of the first cards to support DirectX 11. It is a step up from the second-tier model, the HD 5850, offering greater clock frequencies and memory bandwidth.
Features
- 1 GB GDDR5 memory (153.6GB/s memory bandwidth)
- 2.15 billion 40nm transistors
- 1600 stream processor units
- 2.72TFLOP processing power
- 850MHz 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
- 188W maximum board power
- 27W idle board power
User Reviews (12)
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low power consumption / TDP (27Watts idle)
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GPU is built on the latest 40nm fabrication process - less energy consumption, heat output, faster, cheaper to produce/sell
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extremely powerful - can play all of the latest games at high resolutions, detail settings, AA/AF, etc...
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performs twice as fast as the previous generation offering (better framerates than the 4870 x2)
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Eyefinity 6 edition includes additional gigabyte of memory, allows for up to 6 displays to be used at once for super high-resolution gaming
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Feature packed and low noise
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large size - will not fit in some smaller cases
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DirectX 11 capabilities won't be in use for a while, might be outdated / slow by the time they are
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limited availability for some time after launch
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Tessellation performance not as good as the competition.
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