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Upcoming ATI Radeon HD 5670 pictured and tested
The pictures shown on the forum represent an alleged engineering sample of the card, which had DVI, HDMI, and D-Sub connectors, as well as dual slot active cooling in the form of a heatsink with radially-projecting metal fins and a fan nested inside. The card also appears to draw all its power from the PCI-Express slot.
Based on a 40nm GPU codenamed "Redwood," the Radeon HD 5670's leaked specifications include a graphics core clocked at 775MHz and 1GB of GDDR5 memory operating at 1,000MHz on a 128-bit bus. Furthermore a GPU-Z screenshot shows it has 400 stream processors, 16 ROPs and 64GB/s of memory bandwidth.
According to the poster, AMD's Radeon HD 5670 scores 859 on the Unigine benchmark, a 23 percent increase when compared to the previous-generation Radeon HD 4670. It also showed a nice 47 percent improvement compared to its predecessor when running Street Fighter 4 at a resolution of 1600 x 1200, with no anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering; scoring 10,473 points with average of 95 frames per second.
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WakeMO
on December 2, 2009 8:44 PM |
Will this card be able to play games at full resolutions? |
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ken777
on December 2, 2009 10:30 PM |
For the same price, this sounds like a much better card than that Nvidia GT 240 that was reviewed here a couple of days ago. |
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ununpentium
on December 2, 2009 11:37 PM |
There are a lot of powerful graphic cards out there... but too waste of slots! Manufacturers must choose: to space out PCI-Express slots or bring external the powerful graphic cards world... This have always been one of my desires: a simple x16 PCI-Express host card, a cable and a nice external standard case for the graphic card. Maybe moddable... Imagine users customizing it, with silent fans, lights, liquid-cooling kits, etc... NVidia already made something, but this is not becoming a standard yet. Different solutions for different needs... |
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ET3D
on December 2, 2009 11:51 PM |
I think I got the same FPS for the Heaven benchmark on my 5750. Hmmm... Anyway, this should be slightly faster than the 3870, the high end a couple generations back. Nice. |
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ET3D
on December 2, 2009 11:53 PM |
What I also like is that ATI is apparently on track for releasing the low end cards very early in Q1. Unlike NVIDIA which has managed to draw Q4 2009 into 2010. |
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Decimae
on December 3, 2009 12:11 AM |
I'm not sure whether this is real, though if it is, it's great news. It seems like a card that I can recommend for below 100 dollars, which will hopefully not be more than 75 euros in europe. |
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lfg18
on December 3, 2009 12:49 AM |
Wow I'm surprised, this card seems very good, NVIDIA just got their GT240 and it was not that good, but this one seems very nice, I agree with most of you, this card would do wonders for the average gamer, in my case I don't have a big screen, it's just 21" and my old Radeon 3850 runs most of the games in very good way. If ATI gives the right price tag to this card it would definitely destroy NVIDIA's options, haha, I want to see what's going to happen next with this two companies. |
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TechDisciple
on December 3, 2009 3:27 AM |
This card may have the great performance in gaming am looking to get next year. |
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timljh
on December 3, 2009 3:56 AM |
no extra power,it might be a good card that consumes less power... |
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Razerblade
on December 3, 2009 4:56 AM |
Wow, those are some very good specs for such a cheap card! I'm looking to upgrade my graphic cards soon and I'm pretty skint so this could be a very viable option! Can't wait for it to be reviewed to see how it performs! |
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manintech
on December 3, 2009 5:34 AM |
now AMD is taking upper hand in every price range, they keep doing like that, nvidia will end up being taken by intel |
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Puiu
on December 3, 2009 6:37 AM |
manintech said: now AMD is taking upper hand in every price range, they keep doing like that, nvidia will end up being taken by intel Intel will never buy Nvidia since they already have their own line of GPU's and the upcoming Larrabee. They could also face a lawsuit for that. It would have been something similar to google buying yahoo. |
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JMMD
on December 3, 2009 7:03 AM |
Would make a really great budget card for light gaming. ATI has been doing a lot of really cool stuff lately, wondering when Nvidia is going to catch up with their new products to try and take back from of the marketplace. |
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Kibaruk
on December 3, 2009 7:12 AM |
After all Nvidia rebranding for "low-end" cards, this should be one of the biggest hits from AMD in the low-mid-end video cards. For a sub $100 price tag the 310 or one of its predecesor will just be killed. |
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swilllx2p
on December 3, 2009 7:47 AM |
If this comes out before battlefield bad company 2, I'll more then likely buy it for that game |
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RealXboxMaster
on December 3, 2009 7:57 AM |
This a a smart move from ATI/AMD. They should be bringing out cards like this that doesn't require additional power. I'm definetly looking forward to it. |
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BlackIrish
on December 3, 2009 8:20 AM |
No additional power connectors, and only if they make it use passive cooling, it would be clear winner :p |
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jgvmx
on December 3, 2009 9:42 AM |
I think it is a good budget card. Video cards in this price range usually improve very little from generation to generation, so a 20-30% increase in performance from the previous generation model is gladly welcome. And as Eddie says, unless you are a gaming enthusiast with a big monitor and powerful cpu, this card is a great bang for the buck for the average joe gamer. |
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jjbeard926
on December 3, 2009 9:54 AM |
I've been using ATI cards for years now and absolutely love them. With this card in the lineup now, I'm ready to officially say that no other graphics card manufacturer can come close to ATI's offerings. This will probably be my next video card, I am a cheapskate but I do play some games that this card would be perfect for. I'm excited to see a company I've believed in for so long finally come into its own. |
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buttus
on December 3, 2009 11:08 AM |
No additional power is nice and this would make for a fine HTC graphics solution in an micro ATX case. I wonder if they will have supply issues with this card as they are with the 5970's right now. |
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Wagan8r
on December 3, 2009 2:53 PM |
EXCellR8 said:
A very nice leap for ATI from the previous generation card. It seems to have decent performance for a sub $100 card. Now, if only we could convince everyone to buy one of these instead of an Xbox 360 or PS3, we could enjoy the good old days of when people went to the PC first for video gaming. the glory days of PC gaming are over, it's the game developers that are isolating PC gamers and not video card manufacturers... I never said the video card manufacturers were to blame. The reason why developers are isolating PC gamers is because people are buying consoles more than they are buying video cards. It is the consumer base that is to blame. They're buying into the myth that PC gaming is expensive. |
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Orionlocke
on December 3, 2009 4:38 PM |
Very nice! Its great seeing ATI give Nvidia a run for their money and taking the top performance spot most if not all categories right now. Definitely looking forward to seeing how Nvidia responds (though it's definitely taking them long enough!) |
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PNagy
on December 4, 2009 4:19 AM |
Another nice card from ATI. I bought my 3870X2 nearly two years ago and now the mid-range cards can perform the same. It's a bit,... |
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aSilva
on December 4, 2009 7:55 AM |
when nvidia FERMI comes out we wont have to worry about ati card prices ill tell you that |
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Kibaruk
on December 4, 2009 12:16 PM |
"When FERMI" here, "When FERMI" there... When FERMI comes, it will come (If it does at all, with so many "when"s geez, stop it already). So far AMD is kicking Nvidia, period. |
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