Testseek.com have collected 95 expert reviews of the AMD Radeon HD 5970 2GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 81%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Radeon HD 5970 2GB GDDR5 PCIe.
November 2009
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The editors liked
Outstanding graphics performance. DirectX 11
Eyefinity support.
Undefeated performance in contemporary games
Wide range of supported FSAA modes
Best Edgedetect CFAA in the industry
Best anisotropic filtering in the industry
Supports up to three monitors
3200 ALU
1600 texture processors and 64 raster processors
DirectX 11
Shader Model 5.0 and DirectCompute 11 support
Fullyfledged hardware HD video decoding
Highquality HD video postprocessing
High performance for its price range
High minimal performance
High performance with enabled tessellation
Significantly faster than Radeon HD 5830
In overclocked mode can compete against Radeon HD 5850
In SLI mode can compete against Radeon HD 5970
Improved CSAA/TMAA quality
Minimal effect of FSAA on performance
Shader Model 5.0 and
Fastest DirectX 11 compatible graphics accelerator available
Consumes 48W at idle and 299W under full load
Eyefinity Technology through DisplayPort and DVI (x2)
Outstanding performance for ultra highend games
Fan exhausts all heated air outside of...
Fastest gaming graphics card currently available
Improved power efficiency
Unlocked for overclocking
The editors didn't like
Extremely expensive. May not fit in all cases. Requires a hefty power supply.
Large size
Heavy weight
High level of noise in 3D mode
Dependence on software multiGPU support.
Not very effective reference cooler
High noise level.
12.1" Long graphics card may not fit some cases
Maximum postprocessing Anti Aliasing is limited to 8x
Very expensive premiumlevel product
Too long to fit in many PC cases
Six- and eight-pin power connectors (and a robust power supply) required
Abstract: Know what really sucks? Developing a piece of hardware that everyone wants, and then not being able to make enough of it to go around. Of course, what happens next is a result of supply and demand. Suddenly your $249 Radeon HD 5850s cost $300—when they...
Abstract: Today sees the launch of AMD's latest top-of-the-range DirectX 11 graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 5970 (codenamed Hemlock). Like AMD's previous high-end cards, it uses two graphics chips housed on a single board and has an internal CrossFire interface to...
Abstract: AMD seems to be on to a winner in recent months. In September 2009 its graphics arm, ATI, released the DX11 Radeon HD 5870 GPU. A neater, cleaner design than the decent Radeon HD 4000-series, the £300 card is our choice for readers looking for a hig...
As stated earlier in this article the purpose of these tests was to take a look at how one of the top GTX 580s will compare to the older 5970 dual GPU card and the latest 6870 Crossfire (Overclocked) system as all share a similar price point.If we are ...
Abstract: The ATI Radeon HD 5970 is an extreme high-end graphics card which comes equipped with a dual GPU thus making it the fastest card from ATI in 2009. The ATI Radeon 5970 has a 512-bit bus with a core clock of 725 MHz and memory clock of 1000 MHz along w...
Fastest card currently available, low idle power draw, runs cool, great performance
Availability, will struggle to fit into most cabinets
ATI just raised the bar with its latest entrant into an already exciting graphics card market with the Hemlock, the mother of all graphics card, which sits right on top of the Evergreen family. This time ATI dropped the X2 naming convention and went wi...
The Extreme Graphics CardOverall, there can be no doubting the power and speed of the new Radeon HD 5970. It is simply blazing fast, and as far as single graphics cards go, nothing in the market comes close. The previous speed king, the GeForce GTX 295, h...
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