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ATI Radeon HD 5870 review

AMD's latest pixel pounder is the fastest single GPU graphics card on the planet

Our Score 4.5

Last reviewed: 2009-09-23September 23rd 2009

Price at launch £300.00
MPN 211610050R
Features GDDR5 memory / 40nm / Memory bandwidth: 153.6GB/s / Memory bus: 256bit / ROPs: 32
Interface Type PCI Express
ATI Pixel Pipelines 1600
DVI Ports 2
GPU ATI
Graphics Core Clockspeed 850
Graphics Memory (Mb) 1024
Graphics Memory Speed (GHz) 4.8
Shader Support DX11, OpenGL
Vertex Shaders 80

Product Summary

Radeon HD 5870

ATI Radeon 5870 review

Price at launch

£300.00

For

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The fastest graphics card ever

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Fantastic performance and image quality

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Relatively modest power consumption

Against

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Disappointingly pricey

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