ATI Radeon HD 5870 Expert Reviews

The ATI Radeon HD 5870 is the first graphics card from ATI's 5000 series and is also the first card in the world that supports DirectX 11, the latest graphics standard according to Microsoft.

The ATI Radeon HD 5870 is the first card from ATI's 5000 series and it is also the fastest single GPU card in the world today.

The ATI Radeon HD5870 graphics card is a superlative performer. In most tests it's faster than all of the last generation ATI video cards, including the impressive HD4870, HD4890 and HD4870X2. It even edges out the fastest single-board NVidia graphics ...

Significantly superior performance to the ATI Radeon HD4870 and HD4870X2 cards, good power consumption relative to performance

Loud fan at full noise

The ATI Radeon HD5870 offers top-of-the-line performance on a single-core graphics card, while offering lower idle power consumption and a reasonably quiet fan. If you€™re looking to build a new gaming rig, give this card some serious consideration

. The black exterior with red trim, and in particular, the two vent-like cut-outs at the back resemble the awesome vehicle from the old-school '60s TV show

Sadly we couldn't do these things at this early stage of the card's release as we're using Beta drivers and none of the above can be done without. We tried just about every overclocking tool out there but couldn't persuade one to play ball with the ...

It's the first DirectX 11 card, and it promises to batter ATI's own twin-GPU monsters into submission. It's fast, but just how fast?

A stunningly powerful card that tops even the best dual-GPU monsters of ATI's last generation