Tuesday, June 1st 2010

PowerColor HD 5770 Evolution Pairs with Any Other Card

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btarunr
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The second creation from PowerColor that caught our eye is their HD 5770 Evolution, a graphics card with a Lucid Hydra Engine chip on board, which allows it to be paired with any other ATI or NVIDIA graphics card. The Lucid Hydra engine drives the graphics subsystem with whatever resources that are available to it. Apart from this unique feature, the HD 5770 is fairly standard, with an ATI Radeon HD 5770 GPU, reference clock speeds, and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory. Its display connectivity includes one each of DVI-D, DisplayPort and HDMI.

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42 Comments on PowerColor HD 5770 Evolution Pairs with Any Other Card

#26
Mussels
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Imsochobowoot, prolly igp and 5770 may work together then :O
AMD buy them and complete the multigpu design you got!

AMD is struggeling with shared memory for gpu's, or that they add.
both cannot amd do, when they can do that, they can decrease the power usage of the for example 5970 alot.

Doesnt seem so bad this tech after all!
you can throw any GPU's together with this. radeon 4200 + 5770 + GTX 480, thats the entire idea behind it.
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#27
GSG-9
I do feel like they are trying to fit a two slot design into a single slot video card. There is no exhaust grill for the 2nd slot even though you can see the card is larger than one slot. its not a big issue but still.
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#28
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
GSG-9I do feel like they are trying to fit a two slot design into a single slot video card. There is no exhaust grill for the 2nd slot even though you can see the card is larger than one slot. its not a big issue but still.
easiest thing to do if your so worried about that is to take the next PCI cover plate out.

I also think this is a kick ass Idea instead of having to use a motherboard that has the chip on it.

I just hope they can keep all the ICs on the PCB cool
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#29
GSG-9
eidairaman1easiest thing to do if your so worried about that is to take the next PCI cover plate out.

I also think this is a kick ass Idea instead of having to use a motherboard that has the chip on it.

I just hope they can keep all the ICs on the PCB cool
If I'm so worried? :rolleyes:
I think taking the PCI cover plate out is a given to keep your temperatures sane.
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#30
_JP_
Fantastic card!

Can wait for W1zzad's reviews. :toast:

I can imagine a world of "budget" PCs with DX11 and PhysX and whatever...and not having to buy a 480/470/465, yes my friends, the salvation is here! Ok, I'm starting to drift... :roll:

A GTX260 or GTS250 would be well paired with this one, no?
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#31
OnBoard
Musselsyou can throw any GPU's together with this. radeon 4200 + 5770 + GTX 480, thats the entire idea behind it.
The news says "paired", you sure it can offload to two or more cards?

Anyhow, stick this in now with your DX10 card for performance boost and later change the old card for some reduce price DX11 for some frame rate whooping!
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#32
Perra
Think I just found my next upgrade, will be great with my 4870 :)
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#33
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
GSG-9If I'm so worried? :rolleyes:
I think taking the PCI cover plate out is a given to keep your temperatures sane.
I would highly understand on a 5870 or 480GTX but a middle range board really doesnt need it, besides most cases have ideal amt of Fans. Also the reason most bitch about sound from a board is because the case has a direct hole from the video card.
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#34
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
OnBoardThe news says "paired", you sure it can offload to two or more cards?

Anyhow, stick this in now with your DX10 card for performance boost and later change the old card for some reduce price DX11 for some frame rate whooping!
i dont know for sure, but i dont see why it shouldnt be able to (drivers aside)
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#35
Bundy
Musselsi dont know for sure, but i dont see why it shouldnt be able to (drivers aside)
The powercolor website here claims "2 or 3 SLI/CFX GPU support"
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#36
_JP_
BundyThe powercolor website here claims "2 or 3 SLI/CFX GPU support"
Oh, that's nice!
But it could end up like what?
The HD 5770 + HD 5850 (For more power!) + a 250/260/270 for the PhysX?
Reviews need to be done to further study this.
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#37
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
I kind of think that it is a pretty nifty idea. You could do this card and a gt 260 or something and have CUDA perhaps and a physx card.
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#38
cauby
if this world was a nearly perfect place,you could use one of these babies along with a nvidia card,buy 3 120Hz displays and make the ultimate Eyfinity 3d with Physx!

Ok,back to the world of the living:any word on release date and price?
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#39
GSG-9
caubyif this world was a nearly perfect place,you could use one of these babies along with a nvidia card,buy 3 120Hz displays and make the ultimate Eyfinity 3d with Physx!

Ok,back to the world of the living:any word on release date and price?
That sounds nice though
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#40
yourma2000
so does this mean you don't need a Lucid Hydra motherboard to run this card with lets say a GTX470 now that the chip is on the video card?
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#41
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
yourma2000so does this mean you don't need a Lucid Hydra motherboard to run this card with lets say a GTX470 now that the chip is on the video card?
yup, thats the plan.


the key to performance here is how much bandwidth the hydra has - do they share the 16x slot say, 1x/15x, or is it 8x/8x or 12x/4x, etc.


the more bandwidth to the hydra, the better it would scale with high end cards, IMO.
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#42
_Flare
to get DX 11 and Physx, go and get 460GTX with this Hd5770 Evo right ?
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