XFX Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 PCIe

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 11 expert reviews

Excellent:

7
Good:

2
Average:

2
Bad:

0

Pros:

Terrific 3D gaming performance.
Triple monitor support.
Lifetime warranty (with product registration).

Cons:

Expensive
Rather Noisy Under Load.

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Last revision on February 14, 2013

Reviewers Liked

Terrific 3D gaming performance
Triple monitor support
Lifetime warranty (with product registration)
Good bundle (coupon for Dirt 2)
Runs cool
Attractive design (graphics on card and box)
Good performance
DirectX 11 Support
GDDR5 Memories
Quiet In Comparison With Older Radeon Solutions
AMD Eyefinity Technology Support
HDMI 1.3a, DisplayPort

Reviewers Didn't Like

Expensive
Rather Noisy Under Load
No PhysX Support

Expert reviews and ratings

On paper, the XFX ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB is a better card than the latest nVidia offerings. But graphics cards aren’t run on paper, and the reality is that the 5870 can’t compete with the 480. Against the 470, it fares a lot better,...

By PC Advisor on June 29, 2010

The XFX Radeon HD 5870 offers loads of performance and works very well for gamers that like high-performance video cards. The XFX Radeon HD 5870 is a fantastic video card with the best performance I have tested. ...

By I4U on December 07, 2009

The best “accessory” for the XFX Radeon HD 5870, however, is its warranty. XFX offers a lifetime warranty on their Radeon HD 5870 that is transferrable to a second owner should you sell the card in the future. Warranties aren’t exactly exciting, but XFX...

By ComputerPowerUser on November 17, 2009

The fastest GPU on the planet combined with a terrific warranty All of the Radeon HD 5870s reviewed here are essentially identical—they’re the fastest single-GPU graphics cards you can buy currently. Out of the box, you get a typical...

By Maximum PC on November 16, 2009

You have probably seen an article posted by Gizmodo listing 7 reasons to stick with Windows XP. Well, there are certainly some reasons for sticking with Windows XP and the one that really makes sense is if your current system is too old to support...

By VR-Zone on October 21, 2009

In our 5870 launch article we praised the performance and features of the reference design card. It was able to outperform the fastest product from Nvidia and had a much better list of features, including DirectX 11, DirectCompute and connectivity. ...

By HardwareHeaven on October 10, 2009

Soon after ATI launched Cypress, we now see HD5870s from other manufacturers slowly trickling in, and the first to hit our labs is the one from XFX. Today we have the standard edition of the HD5870, which goes by the same name. At the moment, there is...

By TechTree on October 07, 2009

100

With XFX’s Radeon HD 5870 you can not only take on existing games but next generation DirectX 11 titles as well. The Eyefinity is also nothing short of...

By ITP.net on October 06, 2009

The wheel has now come full circle: AMD, once content to leave the high end of the graphics processor market to Nvidia, is lording over its rival with a GPU that’s not only supremely powerful, but reasonably affordable, too. Then again,...

By Digital Trends on October 06, 2009

HD 5750, HD 5770, HD 5870 With Nvidia's next-gen Fermi architecture still not close to eager hardware reviewers such as myself (and with no release date pinned), the XFX HD 5870 enjoys an almost untouchable position on the top of gamers' video...

By Neoseeker on October 28, 2009

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