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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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Radeon HD 5870 With No HSF

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Video Card Front

With the cooler removed from the Radeon HD 5870 you can get a better idea of the card's layout and just why it is so large. All eight of the GDDR5 memory IC's that make up the 1GB frame buffer are located on the front of the card and are made by Samsung.

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Video Card Front

The GPU of the Radeon HD 5870 was code named RV870 and runs with a core clock of 800MHz on the 1600 shaders that are located on it. The die is 40nm, but due to the extra shaders it has become fairly large as it is now 334mm2. This is 1.27x larger than the RV770 GPU found on the Radeon HD 4870 as it was 263mm2.

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Review Index
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