ASUS HD 5870 Matrix Platinum 2 GB

, on May 17th, 2010, in Graphics Cards. Manufacturer: ASUS

Introduction

The ASUS HD 5870 Matrix Platinum ROG is the latest beast in their array of VGA products. It is highly optimized for overclocking and tweaking on both a PCB design and software level. One interesting feature is the use of 2 GB of GDDR5 memory which is twice as much as on the "normal" HD 5870. Whether this can help make a difference will be something we are going to look at. Compared to the reference design, ASUS has bumped the clock speeds only slightly.

There is also a non-Platinum version of the card which runs considerably cheaper and offers all the same features and specs. The only differences are that the Platinum is running at 850 MHz core clock and the Platinum cards are binned for higher clock speeds than the non-Platinum.

	Radeon HD 4870 X2	GeForce GTX 285	Radeon HD 5850	GeForce GTX 470	Radeon HD 5870	ASUS Matrix HD 5870	GeForce GTX 480	GeForce GTX 295	Radeon HD 5970
Shader units	2x 800	240	1440	448	1600	1600	480	2x 240	2x 1600
ROPs	2x 16	32	32	40	32	32	48	2x 28	2x 32
GPU	2x RV770	GT200b	Cypress	GF100	Cypress	Cypress	GF100	2x GT200b	2x Cypress
Transistors	2x 956M	1400M	2154M	3200M	2154M	2154M	3200M	2x 1400M	2x 2154M
Memory Size	2x 1024 MB	1024 MB	1024 MB	1280 MB	1024 MB	2048 MB	1536 MB	2x 896 MB	2x 1024 MB
Memory Bus Width	2x 256 bit	512 bit	256 bit	320 bit	256 bit	256 bit	384 bit	2x 448 bit	2x 256 bit
Core Clock	750 MHz	648 MHz	725 MHz	607 MHz	850 MHz	894 MHz	700 MHz	576 MHz	725 MHz
Memory Clock	900 MHz	1242 MHz	1000 MHz	837 MHz	1200 MHz	1200 MHz	924 MHz	999 MHz	1000 MHz
Price	$350	$350	$310	$349	$400	$499	$499	$520	$630