AMD Radeon HD 5770 Hits Streets Early
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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SneakySnake Our local computer shop is selling them as well. $190 CDN, which is pretty much the price of the 4890. I'd love to get my hands on one. There was 4 in stock today, but I didn't have any money with me :(Reply -
pharge hmm... HD5770 is listed for $159.9 on newegg.com which is almost the same as HD4870(1G). Toms, when are we going to have the compairson between these 2 cards?Reply
More importantly will HD5770 pushs HD4870 and HD4850 even cheaper?
I will defintely love to see the price drop of HD4870 and HD4850!... :D -
japnoise99 It may be same specs as a 4870. However I'd buy a 4870 with DX11 and Eyefinity any day.Reply -
mlcloud Looks like it will be on par with the 4870, except with several more display ports and probably improved power efficiencies here and there.Reply
What will the 128-bit memory do to the performance? -
pharge By the way, base on the nature of the crossfire setup... I guess we will not be able to pair up HD4xxx with HD5xxx on crossfire...Reply
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... :D