ATI Unveils Radeon HD 5700 Series GPU’s

(Left) 5750 (Right) 5770

Have a thirst for eye candy. Sweet, crisp, stutter free eye candy? Many gamers alike wish of owning the top of the line graphics cards. However, with that “king-of-the-hill” card comes an equally king price. Not so with ATI’s latest 5700 series cards. The new cards, the 5750 and 5770 come look to usher in the next generation of high performance at a more affordable cost. Both cards will support DirectX 11 from the get go as well as:

• ATI 5750:

1,0008 TFLOP’s of performance coming from 720 stream processors, 700MHz/1.15GHz core clock/memory clock respectively, and 512MB or 1GB of GDDR5 RAM on tap all backed by a 128-bit interface. Keeping in line with ATI’s more power conscious approach, the HD 5750 will only cost you 86w at full bore. Look for the 512MB version to set you back $109 while the more capacious 1GB version will cost $129.

• Radeon HD 5770:

Stepping up from the 5750, the 5770 bumps up the processing power with 800 stream processors capable of pumping out 1.36 TFLOP’s of eye bleeding candy with the core clock also seeing a bump in power to 850MHz. Further adding to the value, the 1GB of GDDR5 memory on tap gets shot of power to the tune of 1.2GHz. Naturally, adding more power under the hood means a bigger appetite. Still, even at 108w under full load, the HD 5770 is rather thrifty for a top of the line graphics card. Taking home the 5770 will mean donating $159 to ATI. Again, a rather meager amount of money for the power to be had.

For now, the ball is in Nvidia’s court. What will they wow us with next?

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