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About LinkBacksRead more.Filling in the gap left by the last two launches, £65 will buy you a Radeon HD 5570 1,024MB card. We find out how good it is.
Read more.Filling in the gap left by the last two launches, £65 will buy you a Radeon HD 5570 1,024MB card. We find out how good it is.
Last edited by Tarinder; 09-02-2010 at 03:03 PM.
Oh, no it won't!£60 will buy you a Radeon HD 5570 1,024MB card.
Ebuyer: £66.27 pre-order for a Powercolor.
Scan: £72.10 pre-order for an MSI.
CCL/Microdirect/Aria: none listed
Bit disappointing for launch day of a mainstream graphics card, frankly...
So much for the $75-$85 pricing. Article amended.Originally Posted by scaryjim
Oh, no it won't!
Ebuyer: £66.27 pre-order for a Powercolor.
Scan: £72.10 pre-order for an MSI.
CCL/Microdirect/Aria: none listed
Bit disappointing for launch day of a mainstream graphics card, frankly...
scaryjim (09-02-2010)
... AMD now completes a top-to-bottom Radeon 5000-series line-up
While I'm aware you're more than likely under NDA, there is still a pretty big hole between the 5770, at £130-150, and the 5850, at £220-250, in the product range.
(I'm not mentioning any spurious rumours of a 5830 or anything.... wait, dammit)
Out of interest, how do you measure the frame rate in your reviews? I'd quite like to have a go at seeing what my 8800GT can crank out and it will help when I have a go overclocking it in due course.
Cheers Tarinder, as responsive to the community as ever
I didn't notice it mentioned in any of the slides in the review, but I assume that partners have the option of running with 512MB of DDR3, creating a lower cost alternative? It'd be nice to see a few of those filtering through to retail sooner rather than later: I can't help thinking that this GPU really doesn't have the guts to cope at the higher resolutions where size of frame buffer is more important...
scuha fail price.
i hate how i really cant upgrade form my 4870. everything ATI are bringing out is very over priced. i expect that for the same price i payed a year ago for my 4870 (£130) i should be able to get a much beter card this time round. hopefully nvidia are much better with fermi. might go nvidia this time round.
It depends upon the game, Englander.
Some are FRAPS'd and others are benchmarked using the built-in tests.
PM me and I'll run you through any tests you may want to conduct yourself.
Hi,Cheers Tarinder, as responsive to the community as ever
I didn't notice it mentioned in any of the slides in the review, but I assume that partners have the option of running with 512MB of DDR3, creating a lower cost alternative? It'd be nice to see a few of those filtering through to retail sooner rather than later: I can't help thinking that this GPU really doesn't have the guts to cope at the higher resolutions where size of frame buffer is more important...
Yup, we had thought that cards equipped with 512MB framebuffers would be available on launch day, but it appears that this is not the case. I personally can't understand the reason as to why 512MB cards aren't around.
We know that Sapphire will be launching a different card for the APAC region, equipped with slower clock-speeds, but they will still carry a 1GB framebuffer.
Wait and see.
Got to have something that keeps you coming back.
It is worth remembering that RAM prices have pretty much doubled in the last 6 months, and with VAT going up too, prices are likely to feel steep. But then the 5570 is released with 1Gb of RAM which makes no real sense (to me at least) when gaming performance isn't high enough to allow the kind of high image quality settings that would necessitate so much RAM.
They're doing the same with the 5450s, too. 512/1024Mb on what is basically a business/htpc card? 256Mb would almost certainly be enough, and probably shave a magical dollar off the price. However, I suspect the manufacturers believe (probably rightly) that customers pay more attention to how much RAM a card has, rather than how speedy the GPU is.
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