Asus Radeon HD 5970 Voltage Tweak Edition 2GB PCIe EAH5970/G/2DIS/2GD5/A

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 4 expert reviews

Excellent:

3
Good:

0
Average:

0
Bad:

1

Pros:

World's fastest graphics card, Huge performance improvement, Support for DirectX 11, DirectX 10.1, Sexy looks, Quiet in idle, Very low power consumption, GDDR5 memory, Low temperatures, Support for software based voltage control via ASUS SmartDoctor..

Cons:

High price, low price/performance, Noisy under load, Extremely long card, might not fit all cases, DirectX 11 won't be relevant for quite a while, Based on CrossFire Technology requires game support, No support for CUDA / PhysX

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Last revision on April 7, 2011

Reviewers Liked

World's fastest graphics card, Huge performance improvement, Support for DirectX 11, DirectX 10.1, Sexy looks, Quiet in idle, Very low power consumption, GDDR5 memory, Low temperatures, Support for software based voltage control via ASUS SmartDoctor

Reviewers Didn't Like

High price, low price/performance, Noisy under load, Extremely long card, might not fit all cases, DirectX 11 won't be relevant for quite a while, Based on CrossFire Technology requires game support, No support for CUDA / PhysX

Expert reviews and ratings

An awesome performance powerhouse, if...

By Atomic MPC on April 27, 2010

The previous cards from ATI which used two graphics processors were the HD 3870 X2 and HD 4870 X2. Both of these combined two processors onto a single board with phenomenal results. With the HD 5970, ATI may have changed its naming strategy, but not...

By Expert Reviews on January 12, 2010

We were highly impressed with the Asus EAH5970 Voltage tweak Edition. We were very impressed without even overclocking or adding voltage. Having the ability to add a touch of voltage just sweetens the deal. The DirectX 11 benchmarks and games we've...

By Bjorn3D on November 26, 2009

There you are, the Radeon HD 5970. This dual-GPU graphics accelerator has proven itself to be a real monstrosity in terms of its performance, and is the fastest money can buy...if available in your friendly neighbourhood hardware store. Being the...

By techPowerUp! on November 18, 2009

With the EAH5970 ASUS presents the arguably, fastest graphics card in the world. Despite the overwhelming performance this high-end graphics is astonishingly silent. This is especially impressive if you consider that the card is based on the reference...

By Ocaholic on December 10, 2009

The EAH5970 is obviously a monster card. It uses two of ATI's most powerful GPUs, so it should do no less than crush the competition. This is of course what it did. It killed Nvidia's offerings, but remember Nvidia hasn't released any cards...

By Neoseeker on December 09, 2009

Mit der EAH5970 präsentiert ASUS die unangefochten schnellste Grafikkarte der Welt. Trotz der überragenden Leistung dieser High-End Grafikkarte erhält man ein im 2D-Betrieb erstaunlich leises Produkt. Vor allem lobenswert ist dieser...

By Ocaholic German on December 10, 2009