ATi and Sapphire have just released their top tier cards with the 5870 and the 5850. These cards are able to give you great performance and DirectX 11, but wait what is this? Today they have released a new level of cards which happen to be the ATI Radeon 5700 series. This new card gives you the ability to run your current games AND the new DirectX 11 games for a low price!
First Impression:
Our review will of the Sapphire Radeon HD 5750 graphics card which come in another stylish box from Sapphire and it has loads of information about the card on the front and back sides. The bottom of the box tells us that it work with Windows Vista, XP, XP 64, and Media Center 2005.
I/O Output: Dual DL-DVI-I+DP+HDMI, Triple Display Support
Core Clock: 700 MHz
Memory Clock: Effective 4600 MHz
PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
Dual Slot Cooler with Auto Fan Control
On-board HDMI, supports HDMI 1.3 with High Bitrate Audio
On-board DisplayPort
Maximum Board Power: 108 Watt; Idle Board Power: 18 Watt
Microsoft DirectX® 11 Support
ATI Eyefinity Technology(B.C.)
ATI Stream Technology(A.E.)
40 nm Process Technology
1.008 TeraFlops Processing Power
720 Stream Processing Units
Advanced GDDR5 Memory Technology
2nd Generation TeraScale Engine
Microsoft Windows 7® Support(F.)
ATI CrossFireX™ Technology(D.)
Enhanced Anisotropic Filtering
Accelerated Video Transcoding
Display Flexibility, Supports DL-DVI, DP, HDMI and D-Sub
HDMI 1.3
Dolby® TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio™ Support
ATI PowerPlay™ Technology8 – Enhanced Support for GDDR5 memory(E.)
ATI Avivo™ Technology Enhanced Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2)(E.)
Supports OpenGL 3.2(G.)
DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 Support
Included inside the box, with some of the stuff hidden away under the pull out tray, is the stuff that you may need to get the most out of your new card. The crossfire connector is given to you in case you may be wanting to
get another one to run a dual card Crossfire setup, which might not be
a bad idea considering the lower price yet good performance of the
card. The manual that comes with the card will help those that are not
familiar with replacing a graphics card. A driver install CD is
included and I normally suggest that you do use the drivers that come
with a just released card as the monthly drivers you get from the
manufacture may not be up to date for the card.Also supplied is a Molex to six pin power adapter.
Two pieces of software are also given to you with one of them being from ArcSoft and it is SimHD is a
A Plug-in For Higher Quality Video and Audio In Video
Conference/Chat.
Supports MSN, Yahoo Messenger and Skype
Supports Windows® XP, Windows® Vista, and Windows® 7
Supports ATi Stream
Upscale and enhance the video/audio quality for instant messenger software
You also get a Directx 11, Dirt2! Well actually you get a coupon that allows you to download it through Steam. All you have to do is install steam, who does not have it installed, select the game and use the provided product key. It does say on the coupon that the game will not be ready for download until December 11th 2009.
