Wednesday, December 2nd 2009
ATI Radeon HD 5670 Pictured, Detailed, and Tested
AMD's lower-mainstream DirectX 11 compliant graphics card slated for Q1-2010, the ATI Radeon HD 5670 has been pictured and detailed, sourced from a [H]ardOCP HardForum community member. The HD 5600 series is based on a 40 nm GPU codenamed "Redwood". From the specifications the GPU-Z screenshot shows, it has a 50% downscaled SIMD engine, with 400 stream processors, while it retains the 128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, with 16 ROPs. Assuming the clock speeds shown in the screenshot to be the reference speeds, they are 775 MHz for the core, and 1000 MHz for the 1 GB of memory (resulting in 64 GB/s of memory bandwidth).
An engineering-sample of the card has also been pictured, revealing a red-colored PCB breaking away from the black PCB scheme of the rest of the HD 5000 series. The card draws all its power from the PCI-Express slot. The GPU cooler consists of a simple heatsink with radially-projecting metal fins, in which is nested a fan. Output connectivity includes DVI, HDMI, and D-Sub, though the leads behind the D-Sub connector shows that offering a DisplayPort in its place might be possible.
The user also put the card through two tests, in a performance comparison with the Radeon HD 4670 512 MB, the card this one replaces. The test-bed comprised of a Intel Core i5 750 @ 2.66 GHz, Gigabyte P55M-UD2, and 4 GB of OCZ DDR3-1333 memory. The first test was Street Fighter 4 1600 x 1200, no AA, 16x AF. The HD 5670 scored 10,473 points, with average frame-rate of 95.35 fps. The HD 4670 on the other hand, scored 8,559 points with average frame-rate of 65.35 fps. Next was Unigine Heaven Demo v1.0 DirectX 10 (SM 4.0) 1024 x 768, windowed. With the CPU running at 2.53 GHz (according to the screenshot), the HD 5670 scored 859 points with 34.1 fps frame-rate, while the HD 4670 with the CPU running at 2.66 GHz scored 699 points with 27.8 fps.
Source:
HardForum
An engineering-sample of the card has also been pictured, revealing a red-colored PCB breaking away from the black PCB scheme of the rest of the HD 5000 series. The card draws all its power from the PCI-Express slot. The GPU cooler consists of a simple heatsink with radially-projecting metal fins, in which is nested a fan. Output connectivity includes DVI, HDMI, and D-Sub, though the leads behind the D-Sub connector shows that offering a DisplayPort in its place might be possible.
80 Comments on ATI Radeon HD 5670 Pictured, Detailed, and Tested
Really, I will.
but then the point of it would be cheapest video card with 7.1 bit streaming :)
The HD4600 have 320sp. If the HD5600 have 400sp, the HD5300/5400 will have half or less than half of it. More than that and they could cannibalize the HD5600 series.
This card is beefier than even the 4770 in alot of ways, the only thing that it falls shorts is the number of shaders and TMUs.
Which doesn't make too much of a difference as long as you don't apply high quality AA and AF, and in this case these cards couldn't afford much of it anyways.
So even if the 5550 is about half of this card, it will be quite close to the 4650.
But it should be a good card. ;)
Or maybe we just ain't pure gamers who need the best GPU everytime it comes out.
also seeing as the 5670 has GDDR5 the bandwidth compaired to my card is like wooooo.
as i said my card still runs most games with max settings at 1280/1024 and my card only has 14gig bandwidth so im sure the extra 50 will help
My first dedicated card was a HD4350 as I couldn't afford better, so cheap cards like this are amazing.
You say it can play some games, then you say its not a gamer card, well if the card can play games, its a gamer card, just not a high end brick looking house one, like those other ones.Too bad most people who i have talked with here at techpowerup and over at overclocking.net, don't seem to understand that, yet alone believe it. Glad you see what i was talking about for years now. :)
Non-gamers are content with IGPs.
This card will be able to play anything you throw at it in the next 3 years, and older games like COD4 can be maxed out easily.
FEAR 2 which looks amazing will run at 50-60 fps or so.
plus, i guess i'm a amd/ati fan