ATI 5000 Series Roundup
Introduction
Published: 20th January 2010 | Source: ASUS | Price: £117 - £540 |
Introduction
The market for graphics cards got huge boost last year when ATI released the first of the DirectX 11 graphics cards, numbered, unsurprisingly, the 5 series. Demand for the latest and greatest easily outstripped supply and even now, some months later, it's still very difficult to have a wide selection of cards to purchase if you're loyal to a certain manufacturer.
Naturally the first out the door of the ATI labs was the, at the time, top of the range 5870. This was quickly followed by the 5850 and rumours persisted about the possibility of a 5870X2, which eventually reached us named the 5970. At least the adjustment of the naming conventions should make it easier for the average consumer to know where in the range their card fits.
As with all high-end graphics cards though, not long after the more value orientated models started to drip into the marketplace. Anyone who remembers the amazing value for money that the 4770 produced in Crossfire will be delighted to know that a 5770 has been made available and these four cards make up today's huge test.
With so many cards and combinations to test this is also a first for OC3D in that two of our reviewers, myself Tom Logan and Bryan Waters, are collaborating to bring you this huge amount of information as concisely as possible.
Naturally with demand so high obtaining these cards is quite a feat, so we were delighted when ASUS stepped in to offer us an amazing 6 of their excellent 5 series cards to enable us to run the full battery of tests.
We know you're all as itching as we are to see some numbers and find out which would be the best bang for buck, so let's cut to the chase.
Most Recent Comments
Finally, who gives a fig if a synthetic "my wedding tackle is so tiny I need to compensate with a big score" benchmark doesn't look great when the actual gaming results are so great?
Top review tom.|
Originally Posted by name='biscuitboy'
So perhaps the Best advice for someone with around the £300 mark to spend is buy a 5870 and then buy another when u have the money and need the performance increase?!
Top review tom. |
Indeed a good review guys|
Originally Posted by name='tinytomlogan'
Thats exactly it mate really, the 5870 is the daddy and is my own personal choice of GPU.
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Originally Posted by name='killablade'
Atleast untill nvidia releases their cards
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I'm curious as to why the 5670 wasn't included..
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Originally Posted by name='Makol'
I'm pretty much sold on getting a 5770 when I have the money for it. Hopefully the price goes down once Nvidia releases their new cards.
I'm curious as to why the 5670 wasn't included.. |
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Originally Posted by name='tinytomlogan'
Because we didnt have an Asus one to hand dude. And the review was about the main 4 gaming cards.
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and I think you asked something about your lighting in one of your videos, it's fine.
8)
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Originally Posted by name='ppuff'
Excellent review! Having all this head to head competition on the same graph makes picking a card easier for me. But it seems I have forgotten to water my money tree because it is not growing anything yet.
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Originally Posted by name='Makol'
I'm curious as to why the 5670 wasn't included.. |
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Originally Posted by name='clone38'
Just crossifed 2 5870s and im loving it so far
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Very niceSomething tells me the green camp pump enough TWIMTBP funding to game devs to get just enough PhysX and tesselation into the games to keep them playable on ATI cards but little better and probably a little drab, while playing on their own GPGPU orientated cards will make the game as look as intimidating as 3-D pr0n on IMAX.
/rinses brain out with Ajax
//shows self to the door
How was the image quality in the Crossfire setups ? any microstuttering apparent during the gameplay ?
Sorry for bad english
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Originally Posted by name='Pipari665'
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Sorry for bad english |
Awesome review, I'm glad I took the time to read it over. Perhaps I'll be in the market for a HD5870 afterall.
Cheers!
K.
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