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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Reviews

TechRadar

06/2010

7.0/10

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 review

As a fully paid up, card carrying member of the multi-monitor brigade, I should have been the one person on the team getting all gooey over the thought of six (six!) screens powered by one graphics card. I've been running a couple of screens from my home computer for the last few years, and for the most part loving it. The part that I haven't loved has been to do with running all those screens off AMD cards. You see where I'm going here? So yeah, AMD's multi-monitor implementation has been patchy at best, and downright obstructive at worst. Now it's managed to turn around the problems it created with its early multi-GPU, CrossFire setups though, turning its attention to the multi-monitor problems may be a smart move. So have they shorn up the age ol' problems, or are we still putting up with weak drivers and glitchy support? With the advent of the Evergreen/HD 5xxx series of graphics cards, AMD also introduced the ATI Eyefinity technology. This new tech allows up to six displays to be powered by a single card, though only recently have the cards been made available to allow you to hit those dizzying display heights.

Techgage

04/2010

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition Preview

Thanks to a couple of releases that have occurred in the past week, it feels like it could have been called the "High-End Gaming Week"! First, NVIDIA released its GF100-based GeForce GTX 470 and 480 cards, which we took a look at here, and now, AMD has announced its "Eyefinity 6" edition of the Radeon HD 5870. Why 6? Because it supports 6 displays, of course. If that's not "high-end", I don't know what is! Beginning with the HD 5000 series launch last fall, AMD has been pushing its multi-display technology quite hard, and as it stands, the company has the most robust solution available. Until it launched, NVIDIA was rather quiet about the entire prospect, and it wasn't until this past January when it unveiled support for multiple monitors (up to three, currently). Despite NVIDIA's Fermi launch being rather uneventful, AMD is clearly not taking any mercy and has happily announced Eyefinity 6. As you could expect, Eyefinity 6 isn't for the weak of heart. For one, it's a technology that's obviously designed for six displays, and even with modest 20" models, that's going to take up a lot of room. Second, you need the Eyefinity 6 edition graphics card, which includes six mini-DisplayPort connectors on the back.

PCMAG

03/2010

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6 Edition Video Card

Hooking up more than one monitor to your computer is not a new idea, whether for office workers needing one screen for e-mail and one for everything else or for gamers who don't want to leave the action to do something more trivial. More displays than that haven't been common, however, due to both the logistics and the expense. But that may soon change thanks to a new AMD video card that doesn't just allow but encourages complex, even foolhardy, multimonitor setups: the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6 Edition. The name tells you everything you need to know about this card. It costs a bit more than the standard 5870 ($479 list, as opposed to $399), but it's based on the same hardware as that next-to-top-of-the-line model with which AMD inaugurated its 5000-series of video cards last year. It supports AMD's easy-to-use multiple-display technology, Eyefinity, which the company unveiled at the same time. And, perhaps most notably, it can drive up to six monitors at a time. Yes, all by itself: a single, dual-slot card. If you've ever wanted to set up a literal wall of monitors, whether for playing a game on the biggest of big screens or for the ultimate in organizing your desktop and app windows, the 5870 Eyefinity6 Edition may be your best bet yet.

HotHardware

03/2010

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition Gaming

Back in September of last year, just prior to the official arrival of the Radeon HD 5800 series, we first wrote about AMD's ATI Eyefinity technology and hinted at the fact that cards with six display outputs were coming. Since then, we had seen AMD's 6-output Radeon in action at a number of events, but hadn't been given the opportunity to evaluate one in the lab on our own test hardware, nor had we been informed of an official planned release date.It turns out, Microsoft had implement an artificial limit of four monitors in Windows 7 with the final release of the OS, and AMD had to find a way to workaround that limit with their drivers. Although, we sure the supply issues AMD had to contend with played some sort of role in the delay as well.Regardless, the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition is here now, and we've got one in house for testing. We paired the card up with six, 22" Dell LCD Panels in a 3x2 configuration, with a max resolution of 5760x2160 and ran a number of popular games. Performance data and our experience with the Eyefinity 6 Edition is available on the pages ahead. For now, check out the specs and hardware and then move on to bask in the insanity...

DigitalVersus

12/2009

10/10

Product Survey: Graphics Cards

This was the first DirectX 11 graphics card on the market. It claims very high-level 3D performance, better control over power consumption and lower temperatures. Does it deliver? The Radeon HD 5870 truly is a large card. It measures no less than 28 cm (11"), so you'll have to make sure your computer casing is big enough to house it. Its double-decker cooler is also fairly heavy, bringing the weight up to 960 grams (33.9 oz.) – 200 g heavier than the previous generation of cards. Noise levels have improved, though you couldn't call the cooler quiet. At 39.9 dB(A) in 2D, it's audible, though fairly muffled and not too annoying. In 3D, however, the fan ramps up and levels reach a high 59.1 dB(A). Forewarned is forearmed: it may be a nuisance for the people around you. The overheating problem has been greatly improved from the 4000 series. The chip remains lukewarm at idle – 40°C – and heats up to 88°C under full load. This model has really done wonders in this department. With an-85 W power draw at idle, it's 50 W lower than the previous generation and 10 W lower than the GeForce GTX 285, which is already a very economical card.

HotHardware

09/2009

AMD ATI Radeon HD 5850 Performance Review

Exactly one week ago today, AMD unleashed the ultra powerful, DirectX 11-ready ATI Radeon HD 5870 upon the PC gaming world and staked a claim as the undisputed 3D performance leader. Having evaluated the features, performance, and image quality of AMD's latest and greatest flagship we were left thoroughly impressed, not only with the new Radeon's killer performance, but its extensive feature set, excellent image quality, power consumption, and competitive price. In our coverage of the official launch of the Radeon HD 5870, we also revealed AMD's plan to release a more affordable, pared-down version of the card, with a shorter PCB, lower core and memory frequencies, also sans a few stream processors and texture units, dubbed the Radeon HD 5850. Unfortunately, cards did not arrive in time to be tested alongside the 5870. The Radeon HD 5850 did arrive in the lab a few days later, however, and we jumped right on testing it. We've got our evaluation of the $259 Radeon HD 5850 available on the proceeding pages. First up some specs and a quick refresher, then its onto the close ups, performance, and a little overclocking...

TheTechLounge

09/2009

ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB

DirectX 11 is the DirectX 10 that never was. It’s coming out with a version of Windows that people are eager for, there are games available and games upcoming that support it, and ATI has the hardware and NVIDIA’s got rumors about theirs being a day late and a dollar short. And there’s more than just gamers excited about it. Along with DirectX 11 comes Direct Compute, a parallel-processing platform that makes CUDA look, to be polite, ahead of its time. Tessellation, multi-GPU, free anti-aliasing, physics, all these things come with DirectX 11, and, quintessentially, with HD 5870. And look, they’re available! Theoretically, anyway. (Sold out at the time of posting.) Just to sweeten the deal, the price dropped just a day ago, too. What was a game-changer for a tidy $400 is now being listed at $380. OK, so it’s not mind-blowing, but looking at these benchmarks, it’s a friendly nod from the red direction. This is a full-length card. That’s one thing to know and another to see in a case, hanging over the edge of the motherboard by over an inch. Surprisingly, it’s very light. Both the heatsink and the card itself weigh less than an HD 4870, and there are many other differences.

HotHardware

09/2009

AMD ATI Radeon HD 5870: Unquestionably Number One

Over the past couple of weeks, we've been completely preoccupied trying to come up with a catchy and informative introduction for this article. We thought maybe it would be fun to play off of AMD's tree-laden GPU codenames to come up with an interesting segue into the Radeon HD 5800 series' power efficiency. But we came up short. Then we thought we could use an image of the Radeon HD 5870's cooler and draw a parallel to the awesomeness that was the original Bat Mobile, but a couple of folks from AMD snagged that idea. Even being briefed on the technology we're about to show you on the very same aircraft carrier that scooped up the Apollo 11 astronauts didn't cure the writer's block. Then it hit us. Why bother? PC Enthusiasts are always chomping at the bit trying to glean even the slightest bit of information about cutting edge GPU technology. And that's exactly what we've got in store for you right here. We've got a sneaking suspicion that telling you all about the first DirectX 11 compatible GPU, that's crammed with over 2 billion transistors, produced using an advanced 40nm process, would get you all worked up into the kind of frenzy that a no pithy intro could.

Prices

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Dell Ati Radeon Hd 5870 Pci-e X16 1gb Dvi Hdmi Display Port 2xtg4	$289.95	See it
Apple Mac Pro Ati Radeon Hd 5870 1gb Dual Dvi Video Graphics Card 6870	$299.5	See it
Apple Early 2008 Mac Pro Ati Radeon Hd 5870 1gb Dvi Pcie Video Graphics Card	$299.5	See it
Apple Mac Pro Ati Radeon Hd 5870 1gb Dual Dvi Video Graphics Card Any Gen	$299.5	See it
Ati Radeon Cypress Xt Hd 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition 2 Gb Graphics Card For Mac Pro	$389.99	See it
Apple ATI 5870 - ZML Standalone Kit MC743ZM/A	$439.95	See it
Apple Ati Radeon Hd 5870 Graphics Upgrade Kit Mc743zm/a	$439.95	See it