It looks like the PowerColor HD5570 graphics card I tested is not an isolated case.
I posted in our local hardware message forum to check if anyone else has encountered similar weird results with their newly-bought HD5570.
One of them mentioned he bought the Sapphire Radeon HD5570 1Gb GDDR3...
Prices of computer parts and peripherals tend to be a bit more expensive in our country than what I see in foreign online shops.
This PowerColor Radeon HD5570 1Gb GDDR3 AX5570-1GKB3-HV2 would roughly be the equivalent of US$ 53 (using Google's currency converter).
The next least expensive...
Anyone else with a (new-revision) HD5570 or HD5550? (one that's bought new in the last few months or so; in case you got a new revision too)
Maybe could someone post a GPU-Z of their HD5570 / HD5550 (if also PowerColor brand, that would be best; but other brands OK to for comparison)?
I'm attaching the actual pics of this PowerColor Radeon HD5570 1Gb GDDR3 PCI-E graphics card:
whole package:
box info:
curiously, the box info says nothing about the # of stream processors / shaders nor about the video memory clock rate -- I think some manufacturers indicate those...
I got here a brand-new PowerColor Radeon HD5570 1Gb GDDR3 (model: AX5570-1GBK3-HV2) and putting it through benchmarks just to see how it compares..
I was surprised to notice that it scores nearly 20-50% than reference HD5570 benchmarks I can find on the web, so I decided to check more...
GPU-Z v0.3.4 reports GF4 Ti4200-8X memory as "SDR" instead of "DDR"
I think the Geforce4 Ti4200-8X (NV28) uses 'DDR' memory type instead of 'SDR'.
I noticed that previous versions of GPU-Z including the recent v0.3.4 still reports it to be SDR. While searching around the Internet, I notice...