Page 2 » 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!
Sponsor: Sapphire
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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.
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I/O Output: Dual DL-DVI-I+DP+HDMI, Triple Display Support |
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Core Clock: 700 MHz |
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Memory Clock: Effective 4600 MHz |
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PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface |
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Dual Slot Cooler with Auto Fan Control |
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On-board HDMI, supports HDMI 1.3 with High Bitrate Audio |
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On-board DisplayPort |
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Maximum Board Power: 108 Watt; Idle Board Power: 18 Watt |
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Microsoft DirectX® 11 Support |
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ATI Eyefinity Technology(B.C.) |
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ATI Stream Technology(A.E.) |
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40 nm Process Technology |
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1.008 TeraFlops Processing Power |
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720 Stream Processing Units |
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Advanced GDDR5 Memory Technology |
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2nd Generation TeraScale Engine |
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Microsoft Windows 7® Support(F.) |
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ATI CrossFireX™ Technology(D.) |
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Enhanced Anisotropic Filtering |
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Accelerated Video Transcoding |
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Display Flexibility, Supports DL-DVI, DP, HDMI and D-Sub |
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HDMI 1.3 |
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Dolby® TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio™ Support |
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ATI PowerPlay™ Technology8 – Enhanced Support for GDDR5 memory(E.) |
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ATI Avivo™ Technology Enhanced Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2)(E.) |
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Supports OpenGL 3.2(G.) |
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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.
