ATI Radeon HD 5670: DirectX 11 For Under $99
Table of contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Radeon HD 5670 Architecture
- 3. Radeon HD 5670 Features
- 4. Radeon HD 5670: The Reference Card
- 5. Test Setup And Benchmarks
- 6. Benchmark Results: 3DMark Vantage
- 7. Benchmark Results: Far Cry 2
- 8. Benchmark Results: Crysis
- 9. Benchmark Results: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- 10. Benchmark Results: Resident Evil 5
- 11. Benchmark Results: World In Conflict
- 12. Benchmark Restuls: Fallout 3
- 13. Benchmark Results: Left 4 Dead
- 14. Benchmark Results: H.A.W.X. And DirectX 10.1
- 15. Benchmark Results: DiRT 2 And DirectX 11
- 16. Anti-Aliasing And Anisotropic Filtering
- 17. Power And Temperature Benchmarks
- 18. Overclocking And Eyefinity
- 19. Conclusion
Up until this point, ATI's Radeon HD 5000-series GPUs have really raised the bar on what we expected from the next generation of video cards. The Radeon HD 5870 offers roughly the same performance seen on the previous flagship dual-GPU Radeon HD 4870 X2. The Radeon HD 5770 serves up about the same performance as the aging (but still powerful) Radeon HD 4870. The Radeon HD 5750 delivers similar performance as the mainstream-friendly Radeon HD 4850.
Given such a promising lead-up, it's hard not to have high expectations for ATI's emerging Radeon HD 5670. Dare we hope that it give us performance on par with the Radeon HD 4770, a card that tantalized us with 40nm under $100, and then broke the hearts of amped-up gamers after suffering poor availability?
With a suggested retail price of $99, the Radeon HD 5670 being evaluated today needs to be powerful if it's going to offer value in the most competitive price segment known to the world of discrete GPUs. After all, ATI's Radeon HD 5670 will be doing battle against the less-expensive GeForce 9600 GT, the somewhat more modern GeForce GT 240, and Nvidia's aging GeForce 9800 GT. Not only that, but the card will also have to stave off old favorites, like the existing Radeon HD 4770, GeForce GTS 250, and Radeon HD 4850 models, all of which can be found as low as $110 online (sometimes less, if you're lucky).
Clearly, the Radeon HD 5670 has more worthy opponents than its high-end 5800- and 5700-series predecessors had to fight off when they launched. Of course, this story is about more than just raw benchmark results. AMD is also coming to the table with DirectX 11 support and a handful of value-adds, like Eyefinity multi-display output connectivity.
Saddled with the successes of the Radeon HD 5800- and 5700-series cards, our sample Radeon HD 5670 has some big shoes to fill. Let's take a peek under the hood to see what sort of hardware with which we're working.
Around $100, bit streaming audio, single slot, and no PCIe power connector? This looks like an HTPC dream!
I'll be interested to see what prices the 5400/5500 cards come in.
If AMD have any sense at all there will be half height versions of these cards (and if they know what's good for them, All-in-Wonders!)
I think you guys may have lost the plot a little bit here!
Anyone who buys a Core i7 920 is not going to buy a HD5670, wouldn't it be more realistic if you tested this card on an Athlon II x4 or a E6300 system?
I think you guys may have lost the plot a little bit here! Anyone who buys a Core i7 920 is not going to buy a HD5670, wouldn't it be more realistic if you tested this card on an Athlon II x4 or a E6300 system?
They test on a figh-end system to ensure that they do not form a bottleneck...they test the GPU, and not the systems
*high
All of you simple minded folk dont get it do you lol... AMD has the crown... it doesnt need to prove anything for the moment... what it is doing it providing choises to consumers at the same time it gives retailers a chance to get rid of older cards... imagine if the 5670 beat down the 4770 or the 4670? Why would you in your right mind buy one of those? leaving retailers with a probably huge amount of cards that they couldnt get rid of. AMD gave us the choise to get a 5670 for its innovations, or an older 4670 for gaming (which as you said at Dx11 isnt that important yet). You can see what i mean looking at power consuption... its REALLY low... this card is perfect... as are the others to be a certain 4890 of this generation... once stocks of 4670 have ended or be close at an end, just overclock its ass of, release it as a new card, a little more price to begin with to end stocks of 5670 and in 2-3 months you have nothing that nvidia can compete with nor performance nor price...
You people just look at performance levels and always expect more...
if you dont belive me have a look at the 5770, its slower then a 4870, but it was around the same price... now stocks of 4870 have depleted, and more 5770 hit the street amd has a powerfullcard with (for me) not much of a competition, not even for its own family.
Its pure biology... its survival of the fittest. AMD has given the 4670 a fiting chance for the time being, once the card dies anyways 5670 will grow wings and fly... for me AMD has a genious team there...
They test on a figh-end system to ensure that they do not form a bottleneck...they test the GPU, and not the systems
+1. Exactly! There is no point to seeing the limitation of a CPU-bottlenecked system, we're concentarting on the graphics card's potential.
All though the 5670 completely sucks at eyefinity because its not powerfull enough, it dose have added value in that it can support up to 4 monitors (when the OEMs/non-refrence get to it) that should be greatly usefull for people that need a low powered card to view their 2D apps.
Whats so special about this card allowing it to support 4 monitors? Did ATI somehow improve the eyefinity tech between now and when the 5800s where released? because in this article it says OEMs could potintially make eyefinity run off of 3 DVI/HDMI + 1 Displayport for 4 monitors... if only the 5700/5800s had that instead of 2 DVI/HDMI + 1 Displayport. Point beeing that many got screwed over with having that 3rd monitor being Displayport.
"Point beeing that many got screwed over with having that 3rd monitor being Displayport."
You can buy a converter cable to DVI for around £10.
So not the end of the world
"You can buy a converter cable to DVI for around £10."
no that is a passive converter, you need an active $100 converter in order to get eyefinity to work.
AMD did it again!
What if amd launce a card similr to hd5770 with 256bit memory interface low price card
good card. its just perfect for everything and its cheap
Mosfet429546: Methinks you're talking about the upcoming HD5830
And DisplayPrat? IMHO a stupid move there. Again. Until you hit HD5850 wacky-land its cheaper to buy a second card and CF them than buy a flippin' DismayPort adaptor! Why make this mistake again AMD, the savings from the license-free standard is outweighed by the anger and frustration it causes!
The "HD5670 good enough to run a game (Peggle methinks!) at 4800*900" was pretty funny though. At least its good to see AMD are as overoptimitic about their GPU's rendering power as they are pessimistic about their power draw. The HD5670 has a TDP rating higher than a real-life HD5770 under a heavy 3D load not to mention a HD5750 can't hit that figure even under torture!
Oh... those power measurements look utterly WARPED. How the hell did you get those weird-ass measurements?!
Why do you need a $100 card for an HTPC? Does the 4670 or 785g not have UVD 2 and HDMI audio?
If they had made it a low profile card or at least a passive cooled, it would be a winner. But as a full height card with a fan it has little going for it unless the chop $20 of the price.
You guys made a mistake by placing the new GT 240 in front of 9600 GT witch is a little faster. besides that i like the article.
i bought the XFX HD5670 around 18 months ago and was impressed with its gaming performance,especially for such as inexpensive card..... however i replaced it with the HD5750 a few months ago and the improvement was obvious..
the additional 320 stream processors and superior memory clock (4ghz>4.6ghz) were apparent when running games....especially crysis 2 and battlefeild bc2 .... however the biggest improvement was metro 2033 which ran smoothly at high detail and 1920x1080 resolution... other specs were pentium dual core E5700 and 4gb of corsair XMS ram (pc2-6400) ...
however anyone requiring a cheap but capable graphics card with direct x 11 support should look no further than the HD5670..... its a triumph for budget gamers and you can even strap two of these babys together in crossfire... however please note you can only crossfire the 1gb versions of the HD5670,s ....
amazing card though,especially the XFX version