AMD is back with a new medium range card which promises a good price/performance ratio, the Radeon HD 5670.
INTRODUCTION
The first member of the Evergreen family hit the market back in September (2009). AMD has since then not said much about what would follow.
AMD chose to release the 5670 card at last week’s CES 2010 event. The 5600 series chip is called Redwood and currently only includes the Radeon HD 5650 and 5670 chips. The 5600 series is clearly directed to the mid range segment of the market as illustrated in AMD’s release strategy below. AMD has release two versions of the HD 5670 card, one with 1GB GDDR5 and another with 512MB GDDR5. This review covers the latter one.
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A while ago, AMD released their last generation of graphics cards, the 5800 series. Asus is one of the top assemblers of AMD Radeon equipped cards so it’s a pleasure to review the Asus EAH5850 1GB DDR5 which promises to be a good alternative for overclockers.
INTRODUCTION
As usual when a new generation of graphics cards are is released, the first cards out on the market are the high end cards. In this case the HD 5870 and HD 5850. Later these have been followed by the 5770 and 5750 and we will soon see some lower end versions coming out too.
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Summary: Can the price reduced AMD RV790 GPU (Radeon HD 4890) be an interesting alternative now when all focus is on AMD’s recently launched HD 5800 series?.
INTRODUCTION
At the time being, all the spotlights on the market for graphics cards are pointed towards AMD ATI who is in the process of launching a new generation of cards supporting the new DirectX 11 standard. One of these cards is the AMD ATI Radeon HD 5870 which we have loads of reviews of at testseek.com, go and check out.
However, when a new generation of cards is introduced, one can often make a bargain on a high end graphics card from the previous generation. Therefore I decided to take a look at the Radeon HD 4890 which has drastically dropped in price since the 5890 was introduced.
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Summary: Gigabyte sent us one of their newest cards with interesting technologies such as “Ultra Durable VGA” and their passive cooler solution “Silent Cell”.
A couple of weeks back, we reviewed the GV-N285OC-2GI (NVIDIA GTX 285), a card placed at the “high end” extreme of the very wide range of GPUs available in the market. Just last week we looked at a middle segment card from Zotac, the “Zotac GTS 250 AMP! 1GB“. The time has come to look at another middle segment card, this time with a GPU from AMD ATI.
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Today we will be taking a closer look at one of ZOTAC’s medium range graphics cards, the “ZOTAC GTS 250 AMP!”. It comes overclocked directly from the factory and has a rather interesting price/performance ratio.
The graphics card industry has always been a jungle for most consumers. There are just so many models and manufacturers to choose from and it can be overwhelming to try to get a grip of the market. And graphics cards don’t come cheap. For a high end graphics card you will have to put up more cash than for a complete gaming console like Playstation 3. Therefore we decided to take a look at what we can expect in terms of performance and value from a card in the midrange segment.
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