AMD fleshes out revised ATI Radeon HD 5770

by Paul Dutton on 1 December 2009, 15:15

Tags: AMD Radeon HD 5770, AMD (NYSE:AMD), MSI, Sapphire

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Sapphire and MSI have rolled out revamped editions of AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card.

Sporting Radeon HD 5750-like coolers, the new-look 5770s suggest a revised reference design by the folks at AMD. Presumably an attempt to lower manufacturing costs.

We've yet to see any real-world performance numbers, but heat-conscious users may be deterred by the fact that AMD's new dual-slot cooler won't exhaust hot air from the rear of a chassis.

Despite the change of cooler, the cards themselves don't appear to have been altered. Both the Sapphire HD 5770 (above) and MSI R5770 (below) feature stock frequencies of 850MHz for the GPU and an effective 4,800MHz for the 1GB of GDDR5 memory.

We've yet to see either of the cards filter through to retail, but we expect them to surface at around the £120 - £130 mark.

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Posted by Henrah - Tue 01 Dec 2009 15:28
Lacking the rear-exhausting cooler, it'll be a little bit shorter. Any idea if the PCB has been revised, and so might be shorter too? Truth be told, it won't matter that much, but it'll be interesting to know.

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Posted by merple - Tue 01 Dec 2009 15:31
Henrah
Lacking the rear-exhausting cooler, it'll be a little bit shorter. Any idea if the PCB has been revised, and so might be shorter too? Truth be told, it won't matter that much, but it'll be interesting to know.

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Article says that the cards are unchanged, only the cooler.
Posted by Platinum - Tue 01 Dec 2009 16:39
Didnt they do this with the 4770, cheaper components to get the build costs down?, Lets hope they have not skimped on qualitty.
Posted by Gerrard - Tue 01 Dec 2009 17:40
I'm glad I got mine while they are still doing the original cooler. This wouldn't work too well in my SG03 otherwise.
Posted by Rollo - Tue 01 Dec 2009 17:59
I'm not a fan of this card.

<listens to collective gasps of disbelief from around the planet>

If I wanted to buy an ATi card in this price range I'd grab one of the 4890s. They cost less, perform a good deal higher, and DX11 will take a while to become a factor anyway. When it does, the 4890 will have DX10.1 almost as fast, and still be beating up the 5770 on the rest of the DX10 games.

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