ATI Radeon HD 5670 Pictured, Detailed, and Tested

[DarkOCean]

If these are as good as 3870 as people are saying then one of these cards can play most games at pretty decent fps.

Two of them and you could play most games with decent fps on a high res monitor.

damn

Why you buy 2 5670 when you can buy 1 5770 and have same performance or even better.

 

[niko084]

Why you buy 2 5670 when you can buy 1 5770 and have same performance or even better.

Less power draw that's almost certain and no crossfire mess.

 

[aj28]

80 more stream processors, and double the memory bandwidth, double the ROP count.

Exactly. Particularly that last point ought to make all the difference in the world...

 

[eidairaman1]

This looks like it will be my recommendation to people for a video card, when they want to add one to a bland OEM computer to help them play games on it now...

thats if your lucky to have that bland OEM machine with a PCI E 16x slot or even a AGP 8X slot for that matter

 

[ToTTenTranz]

I'll giggle with emotion when these start coming out for mid-end <1000€ laptops.

Really, I will.

 

[HossHuge]

So I'm guess that the 5350/5550 cards will be closer to the 4650/4670 cards.

 

[insane 360]

i'm guessing that the 5550 will be about the same as the old 4650/4670...the 5350...i'm not sure what to expect.

but then the point of it would be cheapest video card with 7.1 bit streaming

 

[ToTTenTranz]

So I'm guess that the 5350/5550 cards will be closer to the 4650/4670 cards.

I doubt that.
The HD4600 have 320sp. If the HD5600 have 400sp, the HD5300/5400 will have half or less than half of it. More than that and they could cannibalize the HD5600 series.

 

[aj28]

I doubt that.
The HD4600 have 320sp. If the HD5600 have 400sp, the HD5300/5400 will have half or less than half of it. More than that and they could cannibalize the HD5600 series.

I shall refer you to this post earlier in the thread:

80 more stream processors, and double the memory bandwidth, double the ROP count.

Double the ROP count should make a hell of a lot of difference, although I personally would bet the 5550 will share the same chip design as the 5350, much like the 4550/4350 did. ATi likely has a low-end chip design ready, but only time will tell if there's any truth to that and if TSMC's yields could hold up to that kind of volume production anyway.

 

[RadeonProVega]

iS there a certain date when this card will be release, because i want to buy it day one( hopefully from best buy )

 

[Zubasa]

I doubt that.
The HD4600 have 320sp. If the HD5600 have 400sp, the HD5300/5400 will have half or less than half of it. More than that and they could cannibalize the HD5600 series.

We are talking in terms of performance
This card is beefier than even the 4770 in alot of ways, the only thing that it falls shorts is the number of shaders and TMUs.
Which doesn't make too much of a difference as long as you don't apply high quality AA and AF, and in this case these cards couldn't afford much of it anyways.
So even if the 5550 is about half of this card, it will be quite close to the 4650.

 

[DirectorC]

Weak card. Good cruncher maybe. I'm sure it won't carry any DX11 games at the resolutions and quality settings any real gamer is looking for.

 

[Zubasa]

Weak card. Good cruncher maybe. I'm sure it won't carry any DX11 games at the resolutions and quality settings any real gamer is looking for.

This card can sure play games dude, just not a gamer card.
But it should be a good card.

 

[Steve-007UK]

Why you buy 2 5670 when you can buy 1 5770 and have same performance or even better.

Because not everyone has the money to buy a HD5770 and lots of people like myself are useless at saving so we buy what we can at the time lolz. Also some people choose lower end cards for the lower power consumption,
Or maybe we just ain't pure gamers who need the best GPU everytime it comes out.

 

[Hayder_Master]

with overclock this one beat 4850 , but still the price

 

[Steve-007UK]

Weak card. Good cruncher maybe. I'm sure it won't carry any DX11 games at the resolutions and quality settings any real gamer is looking for.

i think your wrong here, it seems to me lower end cards can still keep up with the graphics quality but they just cant handle the higher resolutions and lots of AA, im still playing almost all games on my crappy HD4650 with max settings but a res of 1280/1024 and if i understand this right 1280/1024 is just over 720P HD res so its not all bad.

also seeing as the 5670 has GDDR5 the bandwidth compaired to my card is like wooooo.

 

[DirectorC]

The bandwidth on this card is 64GB/s, which is 6GB/s less than a 9800GTX+. I understand that this is a $100 video card, but it really just doesn't kill it the way a DX11 card should.

 

[Steve-007UK]

my point is this card will be plenty fast enough for people on a low budget who still want to play games with high settings but at lower res.

as i said my card still runs most games with max settings at 1280/1024 and my card only has 14gig bandwidth so im sure the extra 50 will help

 

[pantherx12]

Yeah this is an awesome option in my opinion.

My first dedicated card was a HD4350 as I couldn't afford better, so cheap cards like this are amazing.

 

[RadeonProVega]

So does anyone know when this card is coming?

Which doesn't make too much of a difference as long as you don't apply high quality AA and AF

HQ AA i can understand, but AF does not decrease performance at all. Even with my 9500GT OR 4670 OR 9800gt, pretty much any game i played i can enable full AF without any performance drop.

Weak card

I'm sure it won't carry any DX11 games at the resolutions and quality settings any real gamer is looking for.

This card can sure play games dude

Just not a gamer card.
But it should be a good card.

I quoted all of this and bolded a certain part, you guys are funny
You say it can play some games, then you say its not a gamer card, well if the card can play games, its a gamer card, just not a high end brick looking house one, like those other ones.

As i said my card still runs most games with max settings at 1280/1024 and my card only has 14gig bandwidth

Too bad most people who i have talked with here at techpowerup and over at overclocking.net, don't seem to understand that, yet alone believe it. Glad you see what i was talking about for years now.

 

[pantherx12]

HQ AA i can understand, but AF does not decrease performance at all. Even with my 9500GT OR 4670 OR 9800gt, pretty much any game i played i can enable full AF without any performance drop.

This is true, I've been able to max out AA with no fps hit for a few years now.

 

[ToTTenTranz]

You say it can play some games, then you say its not a gamer card, well if the card can play games, its a gamer card, just not a high end brick looking house one, like those other ones.

True. This is a gamer card, a mid-low-budget one.

Non-gamers are content with IGPs.

This card will be able to play anything you throw at it in the next 3 years, and older games like COD4 can be maxed out easily.

 

[pantherx12]

A lot of games can be maxed out with this card.

FEAR 2 which looks amazing will run at 50-60 fps or so.

 

[insane 360]

i'm just really crossing my fingers for a low profile version! i want to play games with more detail, but i don't want to spend the money for a 9800gt low profile and a new PSU also when something like this would do the job without the need for a high end PSU...

plus, i guess i'm a amd/ati fan

 

[eidairaman1]

so what games do you have for the PC then?