Introduction

During this fall, AMD has been releasing their new Radeon HD 5000 Series cards. Currently, the smallest model is the Radeon HD 5750, which uses the same Juniper GPU as the HD 5770, but with lower shader unit count, and reduced clock speeds.

Unlike with the bigger Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850 models, for the Radeon HD 5700 series, add-in-board partners are allowed to make changes to the design right from the start to ensure optimal pricing, availability or other unique selling points they may have.

HIS has created their own PCB design and uses a cooler from Arctic Cooling to keep the card cool and quiet.

Packaging

The HIS package comes in the typical form factor of a graphics card box, it shows only basic information on the front and goes into more detail on the back.

Contents

You will receive:

• Graphics card
• Driver CD + Manual + HIS Case Badge
• PCI-E power cable
• CrossFire bridge

The Card

HIS has opted for an OEM cooler by Arctic Cooling. This seems to be a great choice because the fan is extremely quiet, yet keeps the card at low temperatures.


Like all other HD 5000 cards, the design requires two slots in your system.


The card has one port each of DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort. This is just one of many output configurations that are possible on the new cards, thanks to the overhauled display output logic. Basically the card can drive six TMDS signals that can be combined in any way (a dual-link DVI consumes two TMDS lines).

For HDMI Audio, NVIDIA requires you to feed an external audio source, for example from your motherboard's on-board audio, to the card via SPDIF cable. AMD on the other hand has integrated a sound device inside their GPUs which is the easier solution for most users. Also AMD's integrated sound device has been upgraded to support HDMI 1.3a which includes Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD, AC-3, DTS and up to 7.1 channel audio with 192 kHz / 24-bit.


Crossfire configurations are supported to improve performance even further.


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