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ATI Radeon HD 5970

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ATI Radeon HD 5970 Reviews

DigitalVersus

01/2010

Product Survey: Graphics Cards

ATI continues to surf the DirectX 11 wave with its Radeon HD 5970. With two graphics chips, it's aimed at the brand's very high end (showcase?). Such cards often consume a lot of energy and noise. What does this one offer? What a machine! This is no doubt what a lot of gamers are saying when they first get their hands on this model. At 31 cm and weighing 1.2 Kg, ATI really has gone over the top. The cooling system is of course a double decker. The fan is already very audible in idle. Not too annoying yet at 43.7 dB(A) but not quiet either. In 3D mode, it quickly gets out of hand, rising to 64.1 dB(A). Impossible. If you're gaming around others, they'll have quickly had enough of you. As far as heat generation goes, we didn't note a significant gain in comparison to the old generation. We're talking 65°C in idle (internet for example) and 96°C in load, during gaming. ATI confirms that energy consumption of its Radeon HD 5000s in idle is well contained. We got readings of 114 W in 2D, which is a lot better than on the Radeon HD 4870 X2 (146 W). In intense 3D load this shoots up to 497 W! Here again, there's a 50 W improvement on the old model. The power supply is via one PCI-E 8 pin and one 6-pin connector.

TechReport

11/2009

AMD's Radeon HD 5970 graphics card

We used to be friends, you know, back in the day. Me and Fatal1ty, I mean. We worked at the same ISP, him taking customer calls on the support front lines and me in the back room, keeping the network running. He came to me when he couldn't fix a problem. We even played Quake together, before he became the biggest gamer in the world over the successive 18 months or so and I became, well, a cable modem admin. Sometimes I look back and think, had circumstances been different—had nature, for instance, given me a vastly superior set of skills, abilities, looks, social graces, age, and intelligence—that I could have had the same sort of success that he has. But then I wonder: could I have handled it? Not the pressure of competition or any of that, but the sheer extremeness of being so extreme. Drinking the energy drinks, wearing the bright colors, the hair gel. And I realize, I probably could not have. Had I somehow managed it, though, without spontaneously combusting, I expect that this new video card from AMD, the Radeon HD 5970, would surely have become my weapon of choice.

HotHardware

11/2009

ATI Radeon HD 5970 Dual-GPU Powerhouse Review

AMD's "Sweet Spot" GPU strategy over the last few years has been fairly predictable. Instead of producing the biggest, most powerful GPU possible--yields be damned--the company sets out to produce a relatively high-end GPU, using a cutting edge fabrication process, that hits a proverbial sweet spot between cost and performance. Then derivatives, and even multiples, of that GPU are used to flesh out a top-to-bottom line-up of graphics cards, that hit a broad range of price points. It began with the RV670, which powered the single-GPU based Radeon HD 3870 and dual-GPU Radeon HD 3870 X2--hence the X2. Then came the RV770, which powered the Radeon HD 4870 and eventually the Radeon HD 4870 X2. The strategy has obviously paid off, as AMD is once again a price/performance leader in the GPU space, after some not-so-great performances like the R600, better known as the Radeon HD 2900 XT. Knowing their strategy, it should almost come as no surprise that the graphics card we'll be showing you today, the Radeon HD 5970, has come to fruition. Although it doesn't follow the same naming convention as AMD's previous dual-GPU powered cards, the Radeon HD 5970 is nonetheless powered by a pair of ATI "Cypress" Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs, linked together on a single PCB by a PCI Express bridge, very much like previous X2 iterations.

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