Gaming on a budget can be difficult, modern games require serious horsepower and not having the right components will seriously limit you gaming experience. ATI has been listening to the lowly gamer and provided us with a new series of card with just the right price point for our monetarily challenged friends. The ATI Radeon 5570 Series of Graphics Cards are out and they are making a big scene. These cards boast some pretty impressive features and still support DirectX 11 all for a sub $100 price tag. Let’s cut through all the hype and see how well the ATI Radeon 5570 can perform:
Provided by: ATI
Price: $79-$85
Closer Look:
Specifications and Features:
- Microsoft DirectX 11 Support
- ATI Eyefinity Technology, support up to 3 displays. *
- ATI Stream technology**
- 40nm Process Technology
- PCI Express® 2.1 support
- Microsoft Windows 7® Support
- Enhanced Anisotropic Filtering
- Accelerated Video Transcoding**
- Display Flexibility
- HDMI 1.3
- Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master AudioTM Support
- ATI PowerPlay ™ Technology***
- ATI Avivo™ Technology Enhanced Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2)***
- Supports OpenGL 3.2 ****
- ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology*****
ATI Eyefinity Technology can support up to 6 displays using a single enabled ATI Radeon™ graphics card – the number of displays may vary by board design and you should confirm exact specifications with the applicable manufacturer before purchase. ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios, which is required for panning across multiple displays. To enable more than two displays, additional panels with native DisplayPort™ connectors, and/or certified DisplayPort™ adapters to convert your monitor’s native input to your cards DisplayPort™ or Mini-DisplayPort™ connector(s), are required4 ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support nonstandard aspect ratios which is required for panning across three displays.
Refer to the following SKU feature for a list of SKU for Eyefinity support.
**Requires application support for ATI Stream technology.
***ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo™ and ATI Stream are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products. The ATI Radeon HD 5450 Gpus can support bicubic upscale for SD content when desktop resolution<=1920×1200. All HD content or desktop sizes greater than 1920×1200 will go through bilinear scale.
**** OpenCL compliant driver and SDK release scheduled for later in 2010
*****ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card) and may require aspecialized power supply.
System Requirements
– PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
– 400 Watt or greater power supply recommended
– Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
– Minimum 1GB of system memory
– Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
– DVD playback requires DVD drive
– Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive
Maximum Display Resolution:
- D-Dub(VGA): 2048 x 1536 @85 Hz.
- DL-DVI-I: 2560 x 1600@60Hz
- HDMI: 1920 x 1200
- Display Port: 2560 x 1600@60Hz
- Eyefinity: 5670 x 1200@60Hz*
*Grouped with 3 monitors supporting resolutions at 1920 x 1200 with one of them supporting Display Port input.
Operating System
- Windows XP(32Bit/64Bit)
- Windows Vista(32Bit/64Bit)
- Windows Media Center Edition 2005
- Windows 7
Radeon 5000 Series Comparison Guide:
Model
|
Core MHz
|
Mem MHz
|
Memory
|
Bus Width
|
Processors
|
Radeon HD 5970 |
725
|
1000
|
2048MB
|
256-bit
|
1600 x 2
|
Radeon HD 5870 |
850
|
1200
|
1024MB
|
256-bit
|
1600
|
Radeon HD 5850 |
725
|
1000
|
1024MB
|
256-bit
|
1440
|
Radeon HD 5830 |
???
|
???
|
???MB
|
???-bit
|
???
|
Radeon HD 5770 |
850
|
1200
|
1024MB
|
128-bit
|
800
|
Radeon HD 5750 |
700
|
1150
|
512MB – 1GB
|
128-bit
|
720
|
Radeon HD 5670 |
775
|
1000
|
512MB – 1GB
|
128-bit
|
400
|
Radeon HD 5570 |
650
|
900
|
512MB – 1GB
|
128-bit
|
400
|
Radeon HD 5450 |
650
|
800
|
512MB – 1GB
|
64-bit
|
80
|
SKU |
11167-00 |
ASIC |
Radeon HD 5570 |
Bus Interface |
PCI-E x16 (PCI-E 2.1) |
Memory |
1024MB / 128-bit DDR3 |
Clock Speed |
650MHz Eclk / Effective 1800 MHz Mclk |
Cooling System |
Single slot Fan with auto fan control |
Bracket |
Full Height (LP option in box) |
Display Support |
DVI-I
HDMI VGA |
HDCP |
Yes |
Eyefinity Support |
No |
Crossfire Support |
Software Crossfire |
Accessories |
HDMI+DVI LP bracket x1
VGA LP bracket x1 |
SKU |
11167-02 |
ASIC |
Radeon HD 5570 |
Bus Interface |
PCI-E x16 (PCI-E 2.1) |
Memory |
1024MB / 128-bit DDR3 |
Hyper Memory |
Yes |
Clock Speed |
650Hz Eclk / Effective 1800 MHz Mclk |
Cooling System |
Single slot with auto fan control |
Bracket |
Full Height (LP option in box) |
Display Support |
DVI-I
HDMI VGA |
HDCP |
Yes |
Eyefinity Support |
No |
Crossfire Support |
Software Crossfire |
Accessories |
HDMI+DVI LP bracket x1
VGA LP bracket x1 |
Testing Setup:
- Intel Core i5 – 661 Clarkdale CPU
- Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler
- Asrock H55M mATX Motherboard
- Crucial DDR3 PC3 16000 2 x 1 GB
- Cooler Master GX 750W PSU
- Cooler Master CM 690 II PC Chassis
- Seagate 1TB HDD
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Edition
Would I recommend this card? Yes, if you are a casual gamer and 1280 resolution lover than the 5570 is the card for you. On the other hand if you are a hard core gamer and want max settings all the time and have the coin to fund your addiction pick yourself up a 5800 or 5900 series.
- Price
- DX11
- Eyefinity
- Stream Technology
- Great Performance to Cost Ratio
- Playable FPS on all Eyefinity games
Cons:
- For this Price Point there are no Cons in my Opinion
