Well, it's that time of the year again. ATI launched their new generation DirectX11 graphics cards couple of weeks ago. It's always exciting when a new generation graphics cards are launched. But this was little different. We were all expecting this, and from all the media leaks that happened over past few months, we were also expecting this to be a good product. Approximately 5 months back ATI announce that they will have DX11 product ready and available for purchase before Windows 7 hits retail, and they delivered on that promise. Little over 3 months back we got the official announcement of the ATI's Evergreen family, and today we can buy these products in retails.
I am bringing you the review of XFX HD 5870 1GB DDR5 graphics card which will be the flagship single GPU card in ATI's Evergreen family.
It has been a commendable effort from ATI and their partners who had a tough time , keeping up with their time table in past. So a product on time is always a good sign to begin with.
Specifications and Features
Today I am bringing you the detailed review of XFX HD 5870 graphics card which is built around ATI's RV870 aka Cypress GPU.
Lets have a quick look at pure numbers.
The first obvious thing that anyone will notice that almost everything is doubled from HD4890 while making HD5870. AMD didn't bother with complete change in its chip design. It made few clever changes to incorporate DX11 hardware requirements and doubles everything else and released the HD5870.
It may not be the most innovative approach, but it has made sure that they get the product out on time. HD4890was no pushover, so you can get an idea what kind of beast this card will be by just looking at specification sheet.
Also the changes are not limited to gaming horsepower. This card gets new HDMI 1.3a which can output both images and full surround sound as well. In addition to this, it can now drive 3 displays at one time. Ati is calling this Eyefinity. This is potentially a really cool feature to have for flight simulator and flight combat fan like me. Unfortunately I dont have such display setup at this moment. But who knows I might just get one now
This card is 100% DX11 card. Here is a quick look at the DX11 features and benefits of SM5.
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