AMD Radeon HD 5770 Hits Streets Early
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Hot off the burner!
Even though AMD hasn't officially launched its Radeon HD 5770 yet, the cards have made their way onto e-tailers such as Newegg. Essentially, Newegg has broken the NDA on the card, which is suppose to lift quite soon.
The card is a follow-up to the previously--and recently--launched Radeon HD 5870. Our own Chris Angelini benched the beast a few days ago and found it to not only be a top runner, but also hand's down the fastest single GPU solution you can buy today.
The link, here, may very well go offline any minute. But we're providing a screenshot here just in case.
Thanks to Gunny for the tip!
As for the "unofficial" specification of the Radeon HD 5770? They are, according to Newegg:
| Chipset | |
| Chipset Manufacturer | ATI |
| GPU | Radeon HD 5770 |
| Core Clock | 850MHz |
| Stream Processors | 800 Stream Processing Units |
| Memory | |
| Memory Clock | 1200MHz (4.8Gbps) |
| Memory Size | 1GB |
| Memory Interface | 128-bit |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 |
| 3D API | |
| DirectX | DirectX 11 |
| Ports | |
| HDMI | 1 |
| DisplayPort | 1 |
| DVI | 2 |
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More importantly will HD5770 pushs HD4870 and HD4850 even cheaper?
I will defintely love to see the price drop of HD4870 and HD4850!...
More importantly will HD5770 pushs HD4870 and HD4850 even cheaper?
I will defintely love to see the price drop of HD4870 and HD4850!...
What will the 128-bit memory do to the performance?
Wondering if there is going to be a price drop of HD4870 and/or HD4850... will it be better to spend the money for a pair of HD4870/HD4850 or a single HD5870/HD5770?
I hope Toms is going to roll out a lot of reviews on these setups...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102859
You guys are aware Nvidia 300 series cards are going to smoke ATI's 5800 cards right? Nvidia has ALWAYS been the video card king. ATI has been making a good showing of late and that is good for all of us since it creates price wars which benefits us.
ATI's 5800 cards I have seen tested only slightly outperformed Nvidia's current line up (not talking about $$) and they should do just that but the margin was very small. Nvidia is in no rush to get their cards out...DX11 games aren't even around yet so why rush the product out?
Don't get me wrong I am a huge AMD fan and I am enjoy seeing them putting out some decent vid cards but I have always used Nvidia cards since they always have higher performance hands down. It is just odd to hear so many people say how ATI is "hurting" Nvidia because it released it's cards first. They are getting some of the premature DX11 market but they might be pissed when they see what Nvidia presents us with.
I can see it as an attempt to crab the early market share, I bet nvidia is going to drop a bomb when they "quietly" (as amd does always did) slip in their next cards.
But as it stands, people are making judgments way to soon.
after the 8800 nvidia even said "this will be the last monster gfx card"
but they just keep getting bigger and bigger. they completely trampled on the ATX standard that mobo, case and psu makers had stood by for years by making the cards LONGER than the motherboards!
my current card is an 8800gt, single slot, normal length, just one power connector, not requiring its own psu! and I have no urge to upgrade until something of the same size comes out, or something truly revolutionary.
I'm thinking that even if 4870 prices drop substantially--I might still save money going with the 5750--because I could get away with a much lower-power system. (rumors say 5770 at 108 watts load and 5750 at 86!)
I am really looking forward to Tom's benchmarks for these cards.