ATI Radeon HD 5570 in Detail

The Radeon HD 5570 is said to swallow just 43 watts of power under load, which is a fraction of the 61 watts needed to power the Radeon HD 5670 or the 108 watts on the Radeon Hard disk drive 5770. Our review sample used a low-profile design, which should exist followed by most manufacturers.

Like most modern graphics cards in this segment, consuming little power translates into not requiring an external power source. The Radeon HD 5570 generates very fiddling heat and equally such AMD has been able to go abroad with using a minor single slot cooler.

The evaluation sample we received used a tiny 45mm fan cooling a pocket-sized 95mm x 55mm copper heatsink. It'south worth noting that the apply of a copper heatsink makes this graphics carte du jour surprisingly heavy.

In terms of concrete dimensions the Radeon HD 5570 is only 17cm long. This is the aforementioned as the Radeon Hard disk drive 5670 and GeForce GT 240, which means it should fit in whatever case that tin support a mATX motherboard. The Radeon HD 5570 is also 5.5cm tall (low-profile), whereas a typical graphics card tin become upwardly to 9.5cm.

The core configuration of the Radeon Hard disk drive 5570 includes 400 SPUs, sixteen TAUs (Texture Accost Units) and 8 ROPs (Rasterization Operator Units). That's considerably less than other cards in the serial, though it is like to the older Radeon Hard disk drive 4670.

AMD has stuck with a 128-bit memory autobus for the Radeon Hard disk drive 5570, which allows for a relatively low bandwidth of 28.8GB/s. To put this into perspective, about variants of the Radeon HD 4670 support a memory bandwidth of at least 28.8GB/southward, while the more expensive Radeon HD 4770 ($110) features a more impressive bandwidth of 51.2GB/s.

Cadre clock speed is set at 650 MHz which should exist good for 520 gigaflops of raw computing power, while GDDR3 retentivity operates at 900MHz. The Radeon HD 5570 tin can come configured with either 512MB or 1GB of memory. The sample we are testing today features 1GB, but as with all budget graphics cards nosotros highly recommend you purchase the lowest memory capacity model -- it will be cheaper and won't sacrifice much (if whatsoever) performance.

In that location are no bridge connectors on the Radeon Hd 5570, but it's withal possible to link two of these graphics cards through internal CrossFireX for some boosted performance.

The Radeon Hard disk drive 5570 retains Eyefinity support, so if this is the feature you are looking for on a upkeep card then it makes the Radeon Hd 5570 an ideal choice. Like its college-end variants in the 5000 series, you can hook upward to three high resolution monitors (up to 2560x1600) to this board.