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- By David_W @Dec 22, 2009
ATI Radeon™ HD 5870
STEP INTO OUR REALITY
Taking 3 enormous steps towards realistic gaming, the The XFX Radeon HD 5870 with Eyefinity Technology, gives the first-ever wrap-around in-picture experiece to fully immerse yourself in the game, or maximize your productivity at work. Additionally, with ATI Stream Technology, boost your systems performance by offloading tasks originally sent to your CPU, to your GPU and max out your settings with the first ever full support for Microsoft Directx11.
KEY FEATURES
1GB GDDR5 memory
ATI Eyefinity technology with support for up to three displays (1,3)
Window 7 support
ATI Sream technology (2)
Designed for DirectCompute 5.0 and OpenCL
Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT) (2,4)
Compliant with DirectX® 11 and earlier revisions
Supports OpenGL 3.2
40 nm Process technology
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance (5)
ATI Avivo™ HD video and display technology (6,7)
Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology (6)
Display Port, HDMI, 2xDL-DVI
PCI Express® 2.0 support
(1) Driver version 8.66 (Catalyst 9.10) or above is required to support ATI Eyefinity technology and to enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector.
(2) Requires application support for ATI stream technology.
(3) ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for spanning across three displays
(4) Digital rights management restrictions may apply.
(5) ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect(s) and may require a specialized power supply.
(6) ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo™ and ATI Stream are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain XFX Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products.
(7) HD capable display required.
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GPU Clock MHz
The main attributes of the GPU are the core clock rate, which typically ranges from 250 MHz to 1200 MHz in modern cards.
875 MHz
Stream Processors
Through the use of stream processing, computer benefit from the ability to transparently access a large number of 'cores' (or, computational units) on a chip without having to separately manage each and every one of them along with their associated busses, memories, I/O, etc.
1600
Bus Type
N/A
PCI-E 2.0
Performance
N/A
Standard
Memory Interface Bus (bit)
The bit data rate between memory and the GPU.
256
Memory Type
VRAM was typically based on DDR technology. During and after that year, manufacturers moved towards the vastly superior DDR2, GDDR3 and GDDR4.
DDR5
Memory Size (MB)
the video card will have its own video memory which is called Video RAM or VRAM. The VRAM capacity of most modern video cards range from 128 MB to 2.0 GB.
1024 MB
Memory Clock (MHz)
The memory clock rate in modern cards are generally between 400 MHz and 2.4 GHz.
5200 MHz
Microsoft® DirectX® Support
The standard for today's PCs and next-generation consoles enables stunning and complex effects for cinematic realism. XFX graphics cards offer the most complete implementation of the Shader Model feature set-including vertex texture fetch (VTF)-to ensure top-notch compatibility and performance for all DirectX applications.
11
Shader Model Support
Enables stunning and complex special effects. Next-generation shader architecture delivers faster and smoother gameplay.
5.0
Open GL Optimization and Support
Ensures top-notch compatibility and performance for OpenGL applications.
3.2
Minimum Power Requirement (Watt)
This is the minimum power supply wattage requirement for the graphics card to perform properly.
500W with two 6-pin power cable
Cooling Fansink
Sometimes known as an active cooling device, a small electrical fan which drives air across a heat sink and as such will generate a small amount of noise. It is more effective than a heat sink alone at cooling.
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ROHS
The RoHS Directive stands for "the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment". This Directive bans the placing on the EU market of new electrical and electronic equipment containing more than agreed levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants.
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Profile
Some graphics cards have the capability to swap out the current bracket to make it compatible with low-profile computer systems that require a lower bracket card.
Double
Dimensions (Imperial)
N/A
11 X 4.376 X 1.5
Dimensions (Metric)
N/A
27.9 X 11 X 3.8
Max Resolution Analog
Maximum Screen Resolution indicates the maxiumum possible sharpness and clarity of an image that a monitor can display, measured in number of dots (pixels).
2048 x 1536
Max Resolution Digital
Maximum Screen Resolution indicates the maxiumum possible sharpness and clarity of an image that a monitor can display, measured in number of dots (pixels).
2560 x 1600
ATI Radeon CrossFireX™ Technology
ATI CrossFireX™Technology with up to quad GPU support offers superior scalability so your system is ready to level up when you are.
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ATI Radeon PowerPlay™
Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings. Performance-on-Demand allows you to constantly monitor GPU activity and dynamically adjust clocks and voltage based on user scenarios.
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ATI Radeon Stream Technology
ATI Radeon Stream technology is a set of advanced hardware and software technologies that enable AMD graphics processors (GPU), working in concert with the system’s central processor (CPU), to accelerate many applications beyond just graphics. This enables better balanced platforms capable of running demanding computing tasks faster than ever.
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ATI Eyefinity Technology
Enjoy the ultimate immersive gaming experience with innovative “wrap around” multi-display capabilities. Run up to 3 display from a single graphics card and expand your gaming field of view across all displays.
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DisplayPort
DisplayPort is designed to be the future-ready, scalable solution for high performance digital display connectivity. It enables the highest resolutions, the fastest refresh rates and deepest color depths over standard cables.
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AWESOME card. No complaints other than the minor ones reported above. But I'm sure they Folding issue can easily be solved with a new Folding client.
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For anyone looking to keep up with current gen gaming on Dx11, support more than two monitors and play it all cool with a respectable frame rate should pick up this XXX card. Though not obvious, this is not the reference - it *is* the XXX version that ships with higher clocks. Keep in mind that there is a flash update to the card to change the Core and Memory speeds from what is listed on the site.
Ok so well this is my first "high end" gpu I have ever bought and I got to say I was more impressed by it then I thought I would be first off, this thing eats current games at max everything for breakfast it plays it all (even sc2!) over all I am very happy with this GPU the only thing I was a bit disappointed about was the XFX bios tbh its not good enough you need to flash it with a different one so you can oc it further then 900/1300, reports show with over volting it has gotten to 1380/1400 (Water cooling) 1150/1350 on stock fan.
I added this great card to my rig , so i could run tri-fire (5970+5870) , and am i ever glad i did . this card runs very cool (30 idle/55c load) but once i installed my EK water block it now runs at (20c idle/28c load)
i received the new version of this card with stock clock speeds at 900/1250 , runs at 900/1300 no problem , i haven't tried using msi afterburner yet , i bet this card can do way past 1000 mhz on the core
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I typically run sims. Non-overclocked, this card provided me with unparalleled performance. On a single LCD display, I could max out FSX frame rates and detail settings. I want to do a 6 display setup so I intend to upgrade to twin cards, but, if the pricing appears reasonable, I might look into twin 5970s. My opinion is either of these powerful radeon cards will do a fantastic job and will satisfy anything I would run on this platform- FSX, GTR Rev, NFS Shift, etc.
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This is a very powerful card. It runs Crysis very smoothly with Enthusiast settings, 4x AA, 1920 x 1080, the only 2 games besides Crysis that I've tried that pushes this card are Stalker: Clear Sky & GTA IV. Fan is like a jet engine if you turn it up using CCC, but it never has to go above barely audible levels to play a game, almost silent actually. Highly recommended!
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all in all it is a nice card, it looks good in your case and has good performance.
thats is when it actually works properly. it crashes no matter how high or low the setting in the games are and no matter how new or old the game is. after reading up online it seams to be a known issue with this card with no real fix. i'm no expert but from what i read it seams to be a problem right from AMD. i hope it's only driver related and will be fixed soon.
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