Asus Radeon HD 5870 Platinum Matrix 2GB GDDR5 PCIe

Overview

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

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Price: $489

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 7 expert reviews

Excellent:

1
Good:

5
Average:

1
Bad:

0

Pros:

High performance in contemporary games
Can compete with GeForce GTX 480
Wide range of supported FSAA modes

Cons:

High power consumption
High noise level

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Last revision on January 6, 2022

Reviewers Liked

High performance in contemporary games
Can compete with GeForce GTX 480
Wide range of supported FSAA modes
Best anisotropic filtering in the industry
Support for DirectX 11

Reviewers Didn't Like

High power consumption
High noise level
No PhysX and CUDA support
Low performance with tessellation

Expert reviews and ratings

A feature filled powerhouse that's almost worth its salt. Today we’re taking a look at one of the highest end cards from ASUS’s ATI offerings, the Matrix 5870 Platinum graphics card. It comes with a slight factory overclock GPU at 894MHz...

By Tbreak.com on August 08, 2010

After decent gaming performance from your next graphics card upgrade? Don't even think about buying the ASUS' latest Republic of Gamers Matrix HD 5870, then.Any standard, off the shelf AMD Radeon HD 5870, like the HIS reference model which costs...

By TechRadar on July 01, 2010

Lining up squarely against the cheapest GeForce GTX 480s in price, pitched at £400, the ASUS MATRIX 5870/2DIS/2GD5 is the company's attempt to provide suitable competition against the green side of its graphics business.The MATRIX Platinum card...

By HEXUS.net on May 24, 2010

The ASUS HD 5870 Matrix Platinum is a bundle of interesting things. It is clear at the outset that ASUS splurged heavily on its design, and used a lavish choice of components, particularly the voltage regulators and twice the amount of memory. The...

By techPowerUp! on May 17, 2010

Sometimes I think we expect too much.When the Matrix Platinum was first started to break out of the ASUS labs a, admittedly very specially selected model, managed to obtain 1500MHz on the core. Of course we'd never hope to get near that on a retail...

By Overclock3D on May 15, 2010

What are the highs and lows of the ASUS Matrix 5870 graphics card we have tested today? This version of Radeon HD 5870 is not actually the fastest we have seen. The Gigabyte Radeon HD 5870 SO we discussed in an earlier review was pre-overclocked more...

By X-bit Labs on September 01, 2010

The ASUS Matrix 5870 Platinum is a rather interesting animal as we've seen today. As part of the Republic of Gamer lineup, it is by definition an extreme product. The included accessories are extensive as we've come to expect from the ROG series...

By Pureoverclock on May 26, 2010

With a cluttered market staring at them in the face, ASUS really needed to pull a rabbit out of their hats if they had any hope of releasing a card which could differentiate itself from the competition. Their HD 5870 Matrix Platinum Edition has no...

By Hardware Canucks on May 25, 2010

If you do not plan to overclock your video card or tweak its hardware settings in any way than the ASUS ROG Matrix 5870 Platinum Edition is probably a waste of money for you. The 2GB of video memory doesn’t make any difference unless you run...

By HardOCP on May 20, 2010

EAH5870 MATRIX -- The Radeon HD 5870 in 6th gear... When ATI released the DirectX 11 compatible Radeon HD series 5800 less than a year ago, they hit a homerun. Excellent, really excellent performance, great feature set, good thermals, very...

By Guru of 3D on May 17, 2010

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