Legit Video Card Reviews
ATI Radeon HD 5870 DX11 Video Card Review
| Manufacturer: | AMD |
| Product: | Radeon HD 5870 |
| Date: | Tue, Sep 22, 2009 - 11:00 PM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
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The Radeon HD 5870
The card that we will be showing you today is the reference Radeon HD 5870, which is a dual-slot graphics card that measures in at 11.1" in length.
The back of the Radeon HD 5870 has a metal plate on it, so it is pretty bare and boring as you can see from the image above.
The Radeon HD 5870 does look pretty good for having the bulky factory cooling solution on it, so it will be interesting to test and see how well it really does cool. ATI CrossFire will be supported via the two interconnects located on the top of the card. On the right motherboard you will be able to run up to four of these graphics cards from CrossFire X. This review will show the performance of a single and dual-GPU setup.
ASUS was kind enough to send over this picture of their retail card that is also coming out today. This card has a simple ASUS logo on the lower left hand corner of the heat sink, which is great as it's not just a big sticker.
The Radeon HD 5870 video card has a pair of dual-link DVI outputs along with DisplayPort and HDMI outputs. All of the hot air from the cooling fan exhausts out the small vent hole on the back of the card and the little slots just in front of the CrossFire interconnects.
The ATI Radeon HD 5870 has two 6-pin PCI-E power connectors on it and both are required for operation. A 500W or larger power supply is recommended by AMD and a list of suggested power supply units can be found here.
The air intakes on the end of the card don't do too much from what we have been told by the AMD engineers (less than 10% of the air intake), but they do add some flare to the card. The only bad thing about this is that the card sticks out more, which is why the length is a hair over 11 inches!
If you think the Radeon HD 5870 looks familiar, this might be the reason why. For a number of weeks/months the Radeon HD 5870 has been referred to as the 'Batmobile' among industry insiders. The Batmobile is, of course, the automobile of DC Comics superhero Batman! The Radeon HD 5870 is hands down one of the better looking reference cards that we have seen in years.
The ATI Radeon HD 5870 measures just over 11.1" in length, which makes it one of the largest video cards that has ever been sent to Legit Reviews for testing! As you can tell from the image above it is actually longer than the Radeon HD 4870 X2 and the GeForce GTX 295. The card sitting on the very bottom is the Radeon HD 4770, which measures just 8.25" in length.
Next Page - Radeon HD 5870 With No HSF
| Review Index |
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Page 1 - The World's First DX11 GPU
Page 2 - The Radeon HD 5870 Page 3 - Radeon HD 5870 With No HSF Page 4 - The Test System Page 5 - Batman: Arkham Asylum Page 6 - Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood Page 7 - Need For Speed: Shift‎ Page 8 - Resident Evil 5 Page 9 - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. Page 10 - 3DMark Vantage Page 11 - FurMark 1.7.0 Page 12 - Temperature Testing Page 13 - Power Consumption Page 14 - Overclocking Page 15 - Extreme Overclocking Page 16 - Bitstream Audio Testing Page 17 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions |
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