That makes eight: Radeon HD 5570 launched

Robert Hallock (Thrax) AMD announced today that it has officially released the Radeon HD 5570, an energy-efficient and low profile DirectX 11 GPU designed for small form factor PCs.

February 9, 2010 11:24 AM ET in News, , , , , ,

AMD announced today that it has officially released the Radeon HD 5570, an energy-efficient and low profile DirectX 11 GPU designed for small form factor PCs.

“AMD recognizes that small form factor PCs are becoming more popular and low profile graphics upgrade options have been limited to date,” said Matt Skynner, vice president and general manager, AMD Graphics Division. “Customers purchasing small form factor PCs are looking for improved performance while gaming, watching HD video or working with the latest productivity applications. The ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics card delivers all of this at a price that won’t break the bank.”

Tipping the scales at approximately $85 USD, the 5570 features DVI, HDMI and VGA; a 650MHz core clock; 1GB of 900MHz DDR3; and 400 stream processors across 20 TMUs.

Radeon HD 5570 Radeon HD 5670 Radeon HD 5770 Radeon HD 5850
Core Clock 650MHz 775MHz 850MHz 725MHz
Effective Mem. Clock 1800MHz 4000MHz 4800MHz 4000MHz
Memory 1GB 1GB 1GB 1GB
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit 128-bit 256-bit
Mem. Bandwidth 28.8GBps 64GBps 76.8GBps 128GBps
Texture Units 20 20 40 72
Shaders 400 400 800 1440
ROPs 8 16 16 32

While the card is ideal as a drop-in HD media encoder to an existing HTPC, builders may be better served with the cheaper AMD 785G+Athlon II X4 combo for brand new builds. Gaming, as a final note, is essentially off the table: At resolutions higher than 1280×1024, it typically cannot muster 30 FPS.

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6 Comments

  1. 9 Feb '10, 4:46 pm Obsidian

    Needz moar 5830.

  2. 9 Feb '10, 5:08 pm Cliff_Forster

    I was just reading some benchmarks, if 1280X1024 is your limit, or outputting 1280X720 for an HD set, you could play most modern 3D titles on it at least comfortably over 30FPS, and at the more desirable 60FPS in many cases. Of course Shattered Horizon and Crysis are probably out of the question on settings an enthusiast would want to play on, but point being, for what you pay, and for the potential application, it will "get you there"

    For $60 in a custom HTPC where I know I want to be able to play a few games in 720P, it will work nicely in place of the board video. I'm not saying I'd wholeheartedly recommend it, I'm just saying there are scenario's where I can see it being the correct fit. One of the benchmark sites more or less said, hey, remember the 3870, well, you have one of those at 40 watts, low noise, and it will only set you back $60. So that puts it in perspective, we have come a long way in the past two generations.

  3. 9 Feb '10, 7:36 pm Tim

    Only 400 shaders in some of these 5000 series cards? Fail.

  4. 9 Feb '10, 7:38 pm Thrax

    budg⋅et /ˈbʌdʒɪt/ [buhj-it] noun, adjective, verb, -et⋅ed, -et⋅ing.

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    7. Reasonably or cheaply priced: budget dresses.

  5. 9 Feb '10, 7:42 pm shwaip

    Don't worry, they'll all run wow.

  6. 9 Feb '10, 7:45 pm RyderOCZ
    Quoting shwaip

    Don't worry, they'll all run wow.

    Speaking of: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/24YkZA...-and-5570//r:t

    Benchmarks of the new GPU in said game.

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