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- Date:
- Monday , October 12, 2009
- Author:
- Brent Justice
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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AMD ATI Radeon HD 5770 and HD 5750 Review
Performance on a budget! That is what AMD is bringing you today with the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 5700 series. The new HD 5750 and HD 5770 are priced to sell, but don’t skimp on gaming performance, all while staying cool and power efficient. We have also added Resident Evil 5 and Batman: AA to our gameplay testing.
System Test Setup
We will be using a Gigabyte EX58-UD5 motherboard, an Intel Core i7 920 Overclocked at 3.6GHz, and 6GB of Corsair TR3X6G1600C8D Dominator DDR3.
While it might be a bit "overkill," we use the i7 920 at 3.6GHz processor in an attempt to keep from putting our evaluation into a position of being CPU limited. Obviously, we make every effort to not use CPU limited games for video card evaluations, but the i7 920 at 3.6GHz seems to put many peoples’ minds at ease when it comes to that subject.
For comparison, the Radeon HD 4870 1GB matches closest to the Radeon HD 5770 in price. For the Radeon HD 5750 we wanted to see how much better it is than the Radeon HD 4770 it is replacing, and how it compares to the GeForce GTS 250 which is price comparable.
We are using the latest drivers provided by AMD, which are Catalyst 8.66.6 Beta 2 dated October 7th. Also note that Windows 7 Ultimate x64 RTM is being used.
Radeon HD 5770
Radeon HD 5750
A newer version of GPUz was provided by AMD that reveals specifications.
Driver
The driver version is shown above.
Evaluation Method
We evaluate what each video card configuration can supply us in terms of a playable gaming experience while supplying the best culmination of resolution and "eye candy" graphical settings. We focus on quality and immersion of the gameplay experience rather than how many frames per second the card can get in a canned benchmark or prerecorded timedemo situation that often do not represent real gameplay like you would experience at home. Then we will follow with apples-to-apples testing in with minimum, maximum, and average framerates.
Card Setup
On each game, as you will see, we are separating the Radeon HD 5770 and comparing it with its counterparts, and then we are separating the Radeon HD 5750 and comparing it with its counterparts. If we had put all the cards together in one table or graph it would have been a mess to analyze.
Therefore, the first section on game page is the HD 5770 in comparison to HD 4870 and HD 5750. The second section is HD 5750 in comparison to GTS 250 and HD 4770. The third section is our apples-to-apples testing at the bottom.
Please also note that the order of video cards in our tables range from most expensive video card to least expensive video card. This way you can see which card at what price point provides the best value.