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ATI Radeon HD 5770 Review
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Last month AMD unleashed what went on to become the world’s fastest single-GPU graphics card by a convincing margin, the Radeon HD 5870. This was followed shortly by a slightly watered-down version known as the Radeon HD 5850. The latter has proved to be very competitive, playing second only to its bigger brother and at just $260, it stands without a doubt as the best value high performance offering available at the moment.
Continuing with the successful rollout of its Radeon HD 5000 series, AMD is now moving to attack the sub-$200 market, and hopes to keep the momentum going with the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750. Codenamed Juniper XT and Juniper LE, respectively, the first is said to cost just $160, while the lower-end 5750 will cost between $110 and $130 depending on memory configuration.
We've been particularly interested in the ATI Radeon HD 5770, as last generation's Radeon HD 4770 was one of our all time favorite budget graphics cards. Although it came late in the game, its excellent performance and operating efficiency earned it an “Outstanding” mark, making it the top choice in the $100 range. We certainly expect to see these new series live up to those standards.
Read the full review.
Continuing with the successful rollout of its Radeon HD 5000 series, AMD is now moving to attack the sub-$200 market, and hopes to keep the momentum going with the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750. Codenamed Juniper XT and Juniper LE, respectively, the first is said to cost just $160, while the lower-end 5750 will cost between $110 and $130 depending on memory configuration.
We've been particularly interested in the ATI Radeon HD 5770, as last generation's Radeon HD 4770 was one of our all time favorite budget graphics cards. Although it came late in the game, its excellent performance and operating efficiency earned it an “Outstanding” mark, making it the top choice in the $100 range. We certainly expect to see these new series live up to those standards.
Read the full review.
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User Comments (14)
Post a comment| Guest on October 13, 2009 2:05 AM | AMD really pushing their products into the market, nice
move! nVidia need to work hard on their Fermi... |
| Guest on October 13, 2009 5:11 AM | It would be nice if Nvidia would even make a refresh for
DX11, so we would see more games in development using
it. They seem to be hooked on just making new Ion stuff and targeting low-profile systems. I'd assume there also still making pretty good money from PS3 GTX Card sells to sony as well. |
| Ritwik7 on October 15, 2009 12:35 PM | It's a decent card, but even at its price point nowhere near
as attractive as the HD 5850. In your opinion which card would be a better pick now, the HD 4870 or the HD 5770? |
| Julio on October 15, 2009 4:08 PM | I think the conclusion says it all, only the prospective
buyer can decide between those two depending on what has
more weight to him. 5770 = Newer feature set, lower power consumption, cooler running. 4870 = A bit more horsepower, older card that can be bought at a discount, probably until inventory runs out. |
| Bruun on November 27, 2009 11:53 AM | 7.1 through HDMI ought to save me a lot of money, but perhaps the HD 5750 is all I need for a HTPC. |
| orionlocke on December 1, 2009 11:12 AM | It's nice to see the Radeon cards competing with the top
Nvidia cards again. I thought about picking up the new 5870
or 5970 but unfortunately they are out of stock
everywhere! My friend just got a new PC with this Radeon 5770 card and it has been performing very well so far in all the games he's played. |
| Guest on December 6, 2009 8:39 AM | what are those switches on the back side of the circuit board for? they look like dip switches... |
| EXCellR8 on December 6, 2009 10:20 PM | looks like i will stick with the 4870 in the case of the 5770... |
| Guest on December 26, 2009 10:13 PM | What would be the reccomended power supply for the 5770? Thx. |
| Julio on December 27, 2009 2:00 AM | Check out our PC buying
guide... [url]http://www.techspot.com/guides/buying/[/ur l] |
| Ritwik7 on December 27, 2009 12:56 PM | What would be the recommended power supply for the
5770? A good 550W PSU like the Corsair 550VX should
do fine.
|
| Archean on January 15, 2010 1:09 AM | i was wondering whether a 500W PSU is ok as well? |
| Ritwik7 on January 18, 2010 10:44 AM | i was wondering whether a 500W PSU is ok as
well? Yeah. It should be fine as long as it is of a
reliable brand.
|
| Archean on January 19, 2010 1:50 AM | Fair enough, I am tilting towards making a decision on replacing my aging EVGA 9600GT (512mb) with Radeon 5770 (1GB). |
