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SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 5870 REVIEW

"Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 review also featuring XFX Radeon HD 4890. The Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 has 19% higher memory speed and 800 Extra Processing Shaders compared to the XFX Radeon HD 4890. The Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 is the first video card to use DX11 while the XFX Radeon HD 4890 uses the earlier DX10.1. Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 is a powerful card!"

SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 5870

"Prepare to experience a riveting high-definition gaming experience with ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series graphics processors. Expand your visual real estate across up to three displays and get lost in the action with revolutionary ATI Eyefinity Technology. Using ATI Stream technology, accelerate even the most demanding applications and do more than ever with your PC.3 The first to deliver full support for Microsoft DirectX® 11, these GPUs enable rich, realistic visuals and explosive HD gaming performance so you can dominate the competition."

"Get truly immersive entertainment (gaming and video) experience and help boost productivity (home and office) with ATI Eyefinity Technology, extreme multi-monitor support."

"The perfect solution for your home or office, ATI Eyefinity technology makes multi-tasking a snap by eliminating the need to flip between windows. Surf the internet, do email, edit photos or videos, track your stocks and much more all at the same time. ATI Eyefinity technology is ideal for multimedia applications; it allows you to keep several ‘palettes’ or ‘panels’ open while you edit images or videos."

SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 5870 FEATURES

ATI Eyefinity Technology

"ATI Eyefinity technology maximizes your field of view across up to three displays, fully engaging your peripheral vision and putting you right IN the game. Create the ultimate flight or racing simulation platform by extending supported games across multiple displays for a panoramic view."

Accelerate

"Perform tasks on a PC faster with ATI Stream technology, speed up demanding everyday applications and get more done in less time. Unleash the massive parallel processing power of your GPU to help you do more with your PC than ever before. With multimedia softwares that support ATI Stream, users can enjoy fast video encoding and transcoding so video playback, editing and transferring content to portable media players is quick and easy. DirectCompute presents even more opportunities for you to take advantage of your ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series GPU for tasks other than just rendering."

Dominate

"With DirectX® 11 support you can play the latest HD games with unrivalled visual quality, astonishing realism and ultra-fast frame rates. Get unrivalled visual quality and intense gaming performance and for today and tomorrow with support for Microsoft® DirectX® 11. Get AMDs most advanced technology and massive compute power with ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series GPUs. ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series GPUs are designed to deliver all the benefits of Microsoft Windows® 7 Engineered to take advantage of all the graphical features within the new Windows 7 operating system, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series GPUs deliver a visually compelling experience and a fast, responsive PC."

SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 5870 SPECIFICATIONS

Core Clock: 850 MHz
Memory Clock: Effective 4800 MHz
PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
1024MB /256bit GDDR5 memory interface
Dual Slot Cooler with Auto Fan Control, 2 Ball Bearing
On-board HDMI, supports HDMI 1.3 with High Bitrate Audio
On-board DisplayPort
Microsoft DirectX® 11 Support
ATI Eyefinity Technology
ATI Stream Technology
Designed for DirectCompute 5.0 and OpenCL
Accelerate Video Transcoding
40 nm Process Technology
Advanced GDDR5 Memory Technology
2nd Generation TeraScale Engine
Microsoft Windows 7® Support
ATI CrossFireX™ Technology
Enhanced Anisotropic Filtering
Accelerated Video Transcoding
Display Flexibility, Supports DL-DVI, DP, HDMI and D-Sub
HDMI 1.3
Dolby® TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio™ Support
ATI PowerPlay™ Technology8 – Enhanced Support for GDDR5 memory
ATI Avivo™ Technology Enhanced Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2)
Supports OpenGL 3.1

SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 5870

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SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 5870 RV870 850 4800 1GB GDDR5 256 1600 11
XFX RADEON HD 4890 RV790 850 3900 1GB GDDR5 256 800 10.1
VIDEO CARD GPU CORE
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MEMORY
CLOCK
MEMORY
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INTERFACE
SHADER
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DIRECTX

SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 5870 REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 5870 INTRODUCTION
PAGE 2 - 3DMARK 2006, 3DMARK VANTAGE AND CALL OF DUTY WORLD AT WAR
PAGE 3 - FALL OUT 3, FAR CRY 2 AND ENEMY TERRITORY - QUAKE WARS
PAGE 4 - NEED FOR SPEED, RESIDENT EVIL 5, STREET FIGHTER IV AND FINAL RESULT

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