Let's sift through a comparison.Īs you can see, power consumption wise these puppies are going to shine, not even a 6-pin power cable connector is needed as the peak wattages are well below the 75 Watt PCIe slot limitation. We'll talk about UVD 2.0 in a minute though. The card also embeds the updated UVD 2.0 engine to fully help accelerate and decode high-definition content like Blu-ray. But the 400 Shader processors can still be used to play a game or two and in assist several compute based applications, it can speed up your Flash animations, help along with video transcoding but most of all the 400 Shader processors can be utilized with software like Media player Classic HT to optimize image quality (post process) with better colors, depth and image sharpening. So we determined that the Radeon HD 5570 has 400 Stream processors, to reflect that number the most high-end Single GPU from ATI has 1600 of em and the slowest has 80 of them. not Eyefinity gaming, but for desktop and workstation usage or a nice presentation it will suffice really well. Armed with Eyefinity support you can drive up-to 3 monitors simultaneously as well, and sure again. The reference sample we received already has three monitor outputs, that offers flexibility.

But the 5570 in fact packs five times more performance thanks to it's 400 shader processors. See the 5450 released last week had only 80 shader processors, which has very little to do with gaming in the year 2010.

Though not a lot, anno 2010 the card definitely packs some boom-boom-pow as the Black Eyed Peas would love to say it. The chip under the hood of the card is a derivative of of the GPU developed under ASIC codename Redwood and if we dig a little deeper, this would is the same RV830 GPU used in the 5600 series with the mere difference being the choice in memory and memory bandwidth (gDDR5 on 5600 and gDDR3/2 in 5500 series).

today ATI is launching their most low-cost graphics cards in the 5000 range that allows some 'ok' gaming. So then ATI today will release their most budget gaming graphics card.

Ati radeon hd 5570 specs