Radeon HD 5670 in Detail

The Radeon HD 5670 is the first board in the HD 5000 series to enjoyment a single slot design, making it a solid choice for HTPC systems. The card is said to consume right 61 Watts of ability nether load, which is substantially to a lesser degree the 108 watts of the Radeon HD 5770, operating theater the 188 watts of the Radeon HD 5870.

As a leave the Radeon HD 5670 should generate little noise and equiprobable overclock very well, assuming the single one-armed bandit cooler can keep open information technology squirting at a reasonable temperature -- we'll check up on that shortly.

Compared to the Radeon HD 5770, which measures 21cm, the Radeon HD 5670 is just 17cm longitudinal. This is the same as the GeForce GT 240 and hence should fit in any case that can support a mATX motherboard.

The core configuration of the Radeon HD 5670 includes 400 SPUs, 20 TAUs (Texture Speech Units) and 8 ROPs (Rasterization Operator Units). That's exactly half A many SPUs, TAUs and ROPs as the Radeon HD 5770, and the same as the experienced Radeon HD 4670.

Marrow time speed is set at a presentable 775 MHz, with more than 600 TeraFLOPS of raw computing power, patc GDDR5 memory operates at 1000MHz. The Radeon HD 5670 can come organized with either 512MB or 1GB of memory -- the taste we are reviewing today features just 512MB.

Cooling the "Redwood XT" GPU (name designated to the budget version of Evergreen) is a fairly bitty aluminum heatsink made up of numerous fins measurement 4cm long, 6cm all-inclusive and 1cm tall. At that place is no copper base or heatpipe technology being ill-used in this calling card, only a 45x10mm blower buff that sucks air from within the shell and pushes it over the heatsink.

The Radeon HD 5670 features a remarkably low 14 W idle consumption story, making it one of the nigh efficient graphics cards available today. When pushful the card to its limit it leave still breastfeed up 61 watts, and even with the increased outflow stress, noise levels were same good -- comparable to those of the Radeon HD 5750 operating room GeForce GTS 240 graphics cards.

A big nonnegative about the Radeon HD 5670 consuming so little power is that it doesn't require an external power source. Rather, the PCI Extract bus alone is capable of delivering enough modern to this card.

There are no bridge connectors along the Radeon HD 5670, but it's tranquil possible to data link deuce of these nontextual matter card game done internal CrossFire. As mentioned before, the Radeon HD 5670 keeps Eyefinity support. Like its high-remnant variants in the 5000 serial, you can hook rising to three utmost resolution monitors (ascending to 2560x1600) to this board. If not for gaming, it can static be a handy feature to experience for the ultimate productivity workstation spanning trine monitors.