Never fear! Another Radeon is here! And so soon too after we saw the HD 5450 just last week. Anyway the new card is the ATI Radeon HD 5570 and of course it supports DirectX 11, Eyefinity and all the other features that the HD 5000 series cards have. The HD 5570, like the HD 5450, is targeted at the HTPC users with its low profile, low power consumption, low price and quiet cooler.
The HD 5450 is made on the 40nm process and has 627 million transistors on its die. The core clock comes in at 650MHz with 400 stream processors and 20 texture units for a total power of 520 GFLOPS. The card will have 1GB of DDR3 RAM on board with a clock of 900MHz and a data rate of 1.8 Gbps. It’s also rated at using 9.7W of power during idle with a “typical” rating of 38W.
If your wondering about performance (which I’m sure you are) then you’ll be happy to know that it follows along with the naming scheme and slots in between the HD 5450 and the HD 5670 (but it’s actually a lot closer to the 5670 in terms of power). As you would expect and hope, the HD 5570 does well in video decoding and playback with little sweat. In games you’ll be happy to know that this card is more far better than the HD 5450 and did reasonably in the tested games, with performance coming close to Nvidia’s GT 240 card in some cases. Check out our graphics card rankings list to see exactly how it stacks up to other cards.
The ATI Radeon HD 5570 is available now starting from around US$85
