ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition Review

The ATI Radeon HD 5870 is one of the top Graphics Card's on the market right now;


Review.
. 2gb. 11.1" in length,
. 2.15 billion 40nm transistors
. GDDR5 interface with 153.6 GB/sec of memory bandwidth
. PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
. DirectX 11 support
. Image quality enhancement technology

* Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
* Adaptive anti-aliasing
* 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
* 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
. ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU technology
. ATI PowerPlay power management technology7

* Dynamic power management with low power idle state
* Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations


Speeds and Feeds
* Engine clock speed: 850 MHz
* Processing power (single precision): 2.72 TeraFLOPS
* Processing power (double precision): 544 GigaFLOPS
* Polygon throughput: 850M polygons/sec
* Data fetch rate (32-bit): 272 billion fetches/sec
* Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 68 Gigatexels/sec
* Pixel fill rate: 27.2 Gigapixels/sec
* Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 108.8 Gigasamples/sec
* Memory clock speed: 1.2 GHz
* Memory data rate: 4.8 Gbps
* Memory bandwidth: 153.6 GB/sec
* Maximum board power: 188 Watts
* Idle board power: 27 Watts

The Good*

*ATI CrossFireX technology with multi-GPU support offers advanced scalability

* Unrivalled visual quality and intense gaming performance and for today and tomorrow with support for Microsoft DirectX 11
*GDDR5 memory
*2gb! Great for gaming.

The Bad

* Not the latest in the series, there is a 5970 out there.
* Your Going to need a BIG case to fit this 11.1" in length,

The bottom line

The 5870 Eyefinity 6 is one nice looking GPU with outstanding performance and Its BIG.
with a 2gb any game will take it its HD.

Rating

Out of 10

9/10 its just that good

Nice review.

Doctor Inferno wrote:

Nice review.

Thanks its my first time