PowerColor HD 5570 1024 MB

Introduction

Last year AMD released their new Radeon HD 5800 Series of graphics cards which quickly became a big success due to the numerous improvements made over previous generations. Over the course of the last months AMD has been adding more cards to their DirectX 11 lineup quickly, one of the latest is the Radeon HD 5570. Just like the HD 5670, it is based on AMD's Redwood graphics processor which is made in a 40 nm process at TSMC Taiwan.
AMD is pricing their 512 MB HD 5670 cards around a $100 price point, and the HD 5570 at around $80. This is a tough market that is crowded with other cards like the GeForce GT 240, 9600 GT and 9800 GT. AMD's own products here are HD 4770, HD 4830 and HD 4850.

PowerColor has sent us their HD 5570. It comes with a simple OEM cooler and uses a PCB design very similar to the AMD reference PCB design as well as the stock clocks.

	GeForce 9400 GT	Radeon HD 5450	Radeon HD 4550	GeForce 9500 GT	GeForce GT 220	PowerColor HD 5570	Radeon HD 5570	Radeon HD 4670	GeForce 9600 GT	Radeon HD 5670
Shader units	16	80	80	32	48	400	400	320	64	400
ROPs	8	4	4	8	8	8	8	8	16	8
GPU	G96	Cedar	RV710	G96	GT216	Redwood	Redwood	RV730	G94	Redwood
Transistors	314M	292M	242M	314M	486M	627M	627M	512M	505M	627M
Memory Size	512M	512 MB	512 MB	256 MB / 512 MB	512 MB / 1024 MB	1024 MB	1024 MB	512 MB	512 MB	1024 MB
Memory Bus Width	128 bit	64 bit	64 bit	128 bit	128 bit	128 bit	128 bit	128 bit	256 bit	128 bit
Core Clock	550 MHz	650 MHz	600 MHz	550 MHz	625 MHz	650 MHz	650 MHz	750 MHz	650 MHz	775 MHz
Memory Clock	400 MHz	800 MHz	400 MHz	900 MHz	790 MHz / 1012 MHz	800 MHz	900 MHz	1000 MHz	900 MHz	1000 MHz
Price	$40	$45	$40	$50	$80	$83	$80	$65	$80	$100