Hardware Roundup: AMD Radeon HD 5870 Edition

Category: Video Cards
Posted: September 23, 2009 03:31AM
Author: Nemo

It's been talked about in the OCC forums with a great deal of speculation and anticipation and finally the release date for the newest series of cards from ATI is here with the unveiling of the Radeon HD 5870. Based on the RV870 core and produced using a 40nm manufacturing process, the HD 5870 features a core clock speed of 850MHz and 1200MHz on the 1GB frame buffer. There's a massive 2.15 billion transistors packed into this GPU that features 1600 stream processors and 2.72TFlops of compute performance. Of course, this is also the first DirectX 11 capable card out of the gate as well. There's been a lot of rumors and leaks about the card's supposed performance numbers so let's quit fooling around and check out the reviews using the links below!

Sapphire HD 5870 @ OCC
AMD's Radeon HD 5870 graphics processor @ Tech Report
ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB Graphics Card and AMD Eyefinity @ PC Perspective
AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5870 Video Card @ [H]ardOCP
ATI Radeon HD 5870 DX11 Video Card @ Legit Reviews
AMD ATI Radeon HD 5870 DirectX 11 GPU @ HotHardware
Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB Graphics Card @ TweakTown
ATI Radeon HD 5870 @ TechSpot
The AMD HD5870 - the fastest single-GPU card available? @ Bjorn3D