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Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 1GB CrossFire Video Card Review

Manufacturer: Sapphire
Product: Radeon HD 5570
Date: Tue, Feb 09, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Radeon HD 5570 Overclocking

ATI Radeon HD 5570 Video Card Overclocking

To overclock the Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 1GB graphics card, we used the ATI Overdrive utility that is part of the CATALYST Control Center. When you 'unlock' the ATI Overdrive, you can manually set the clock and memory settings or let the 'auto-tune' utility set the frequencies for you.

ATI Radeon HD 5570 Video Card Overclocking

To save on time we skipped the auto-tune feature and just maxed out the sliders and took the card the highest that it could go. We also cranked up the fan to 100% just for fun and to make sure the GPU was as cool as it could possibly get. We started out at the default settings of 650MHz on the core and 900MHz on the memory, but were able to reach 700MHz on the core and 950MHz on the GDDR3 memory. This is a 50MHz overclock on the core and a 50MHz boost on the Samsung GDDR3 memory ICs.

To test out the overclock we fired up 3DMark Vantage and manually set the fans at 100% just to be sure heat wasn't an issue when benchmarking at this overclock.

The Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 Video Card Overclocked 650MHz/900MHz:

ATI Radeon HD 5570 Video Card Overclocking

The Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 Video Card Overclocked 700MHz/950MHz:

ATI Radeon HD 5570 Video Card Overclocking

Running 3DMark Vantage with the Performance preset we got a score of P4496.  The score went up to P4831 3DMarks when overclocked, which was an improvement of 335 3DMarks or 7.5% with this mild overclock. Both the ATI Radeon HD 5570 512MB and the Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 1GB graphics cards had the same overclock, so we can assume that this overclock will be easily reached by all brands of Radeon HD 5570 graphics cards

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Review Index
Page 1 - Radeon HD 5570 - $79 for 520 GFlops
Page 2 - ATI Radeon HD 5570 HDMI
Page 3 - Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 1GB
Page 4 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 5 - Radeon HD 5570 Test Settings
Page 6 - Batman: Arkham Asylum
Page 7 - Resident Evil 5
Page 8 - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Page 9 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 10 - FurMark 1.7.0
Page 11 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 12 - Temperature Testing
Page 13 - Power Consumption
Page 14 - Radeon HD 5570 Overclocking
Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions