ATI Radeon HD 5770 and 5750: Review Roudup

The ATI Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 certainly pack a punch when it comes to their specs and performance for their price, which we covered in a recent post. Both now have 40nm DirectX 11 parts, which they need, to survive in the tough GPU market.

Engadget have done some searching around and have found what they believe are the best of the reviews currently available. There are seven in total, so should be more than enough to offer you an unbiased opinion if you were thinking of getting one of these cards.

Hot Hardware review sums up by saying that if you are on the market for a video card to work with Windows 7, then the Radeon HD 5700 series is a perfect choice.

PC Perspective says that AMD are doing all they can, not to be dealt the deathblow by NVIDIA, and they have done just that by offering lower prices.

TweakTown who we know often offers the best reviews concludes that AMD have created mid-range cards at a better value, much more than its previous generations.

To read all seven reviews, visit Engadget

ATI Radeon HD 5850: Performance Review

A recent article on HotHardware puts the recently released ATI Radeon HD 5850 through its paces, the article benchmarks the card against come close competitors such as the Radeon HD 5870, the Radeon HD 4870 X2, the GeForce GTX 285 and the GeForce GTX 295. Read more

ATI Radeon HD 5800: DirectX 11 support

AMD have recently introduced two new graphics cards, these cards are both part of the Radeon HD 5000 series, both of the cards are DirectX 11 capable, making them the first released DirectX 11 capable products, thus beating their rivals Nvidia. Read more

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Review: Better than Competition

AMD have now released its new ATI Radeon HD 5870 and early reviews state that the GPU has much better performance than its competition. This graphics card is for the serious gamer, as it uses the most powerful processer ever created, and is also the first GPU to fully support Microsoft DirectX 11. Read more

2TFLOPS for Radeon HD 5800 Series

It has been reported that the new Radeon HD 5800 Series will support a performance equal to 2 terrabytes of FLOPS (Floating point Operations Per Second. ) The news comes after it has been revealed that ATI Cypress will now become the Radeon HD 5800. Read more

Hands-on: GIGABYTE Radeon HD 4850 Graphics Card

Now this looks like it could be something special, welcome to the stunning GIGABYTE Radeon HD 4850 graphics card, the question is “Is this the card that has put AMD/ATI back on the graphics card map?

The GIGABYTE HD 4850, like every other reference design HD 4850 carries with it good performance and an excellent price to performance ratio. We can see against the mid-range 9600 GT at the lower resolution there isn’t much difference. As we increase the load on the card by upping the resolution or turning on AA and AF, the HD 4850 really begins to shine against the competition.

Inside the package we have everything we need, from a Crossfire bridge to a DVI to HDMI adapter. It would have been nice to have seen a full version game included in the package, but it doesn’t seem to be something that many ATI partners are doing at the moment.

If you’re looking for a good valued HD 4850 that goes fast and doesn’t cost much money, the GIGABYTE HD 4850 is a good choice. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles, but this helps keep price down and means that you can enjoy high frame rates at a decent resolution for a good price.

Let us know what you think of the GIGABYTE Radeon HD 4850.

Read the full 18 page review over on TweakTown

Visiontek ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB Graphics Card

When it comes to some gamers they tend to spend a lot of money upgrading their computers, from motherboards to CPU’s just so that they can get the latest PCI-e cards. Well some go for the cheaper route and that is to purchase the latest and fastest AGP solution available.

One such solution is the Visiontek ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB, this card also has AGP support.

The GPU has a lot of life in it, so is perfect for future gamers. If funds are limited, then this is a cheap alternative to getting the ultimate gaming experience.

When you first unpack the Visiontek ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB, you will find it is a little on the heavy side. The main reason for this is the oversized fully copper heatsink which has been mounted to the board. Hopefully this should keep things running cool.

The normal price for this graphics card is $300, but Woot have it for the special price of just $79.99 + $5 shipping.

Alienware Area-51 ALX CFX: twin 1GB Radeon HD 3870 X2 cards (four GPUs)

This is Alienware’s Area-51 ALX CFX which gives you twin 1GB Radeon HD 3870 X2 cards (a total of four GPUs) thanks to CrossFireX technology. What is cool about Alienware is the fact that their Aurora ALX rig supported quad SLI support 2 years ago.

The Area-51 ALX CFX features a 1,000-watt power supply, optional Blu-ray burner, a load of HDD choices, up to 4GB of RAM, a 3.0GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor and of course the twin 1GB Radeon HD 3870 X2 video cards. Expect to pay at least $5,649 for a CrossFireX-equipped setup.

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