Testseek.com have collected 128 expert reviews of the AMD Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 87%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 PCIe.
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The editors liked
Best singleGPU performance
Huge improvement
Nearly 100% over 4870
Insignificant idle power
Low noise allaround
DirectX 11
First!
High singlecore clock speed
Huge performance improvement
Support for DirectX 11
DirectX 10.1
Sexy looks
Very low power consumption
Reasonably quiet in idle
GDDR5 memory
Low temperatures
Support for software based voltage control
Support for AMD EyeFinity Technology
Native...
The editors didn't like
High power consumption at full load
Needs matching highend hardware to appreciate fully
Huge performance improvement, Support for DirectX 11, DirectX 10.1, Sexy looks, Very low power consumption, Reasonably quiet in idle, GDDR5 memory, Low temperatures, Support for software based voltage control, Support for AMD EyeFinity Technology, Native...
Not the best price/performance, Tends to be noisy under load, Not much overclocking potential on our sample, Long card, might not fit all cases, DirectX 11 wont be relevant for quite a while, No support for CUDA / PhysX
AMD definitely surprised me, and pretty much everybody else with their new products. I neither expected such a big performance increase, nor many of the other new features that AMD has put in their card. Looking at pure performance numbers, one has to ...
The new ATI Radeon HD 5870 is a seriously impressive graphics card, delivering a level of performance and efficiency previous unseen from a single-GPU graphics card. Having pushed the Radeon HD 5870 though 15 different games at 3 different resolutions,...
At the end of the day, this card has the power but unfortunately the world is not just ready for this card. In a few months time, when more games support the features and more specifically DirectX 11, this card will start to advance in performance and...
Although the Radeon HD 5870 is the king of the hill, it does come at a cost to the gamer, however if you're serious about gaming, than it's definitely something to consider. AMD have come a long way since the Radeon HD 4870 and with a few new cards ju...
Having a direct look at the new generation card to its older generation sibling gives us a good idea of just how hard a company has worked to improve the technology they use in todays graphics cards. The HD 5870 is no different; its easy for peop...
Significantly superior performance to the ATI Radeon HD4870 and HD4870X2 cards, good power consumption relative to performance
Loud fan at full noise
ATI’s brand new Radeon HD5870 is one of the most powerful graphics cards on the market. It out-performs the last generation models in all of our tests, and it even edges out NVIDIA’s GTX295 in some benchmarks too. Best of all, it does this whi...
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