ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series is a series of graphics adapters designed for a wide audience, including both ordinary users and computer game lovers. Releasing this line in 2009, AMD continued to fill the market with video cards that support DirectX 11.0.
When the developers released the ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, they admitted that this line is considered a stripped-down version of the HD 5800, which is also cheap. And yet on the market it was not as successful as competitors from INVIDIA, who produced their products in a reasonable price range.
There should have been three representatives in this release of video cards - these are 5750, 5770 and 5790. The last name did not appear on the market for unknown reasons. The manufacturer decided not to introduce this kind of video card, but simply transfer it to the next series, increasing the bus to 256 bits.
Radeon HD 5750 Vapor-X
So, the ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series is capable of supporting an operating frequency of 700 megahertz, and 720 universal processors process the vertices and pixels. Although the Juniper GPU was cut down to 40 nanometers in terms of nanometers, which had a dramatic effect on the number of transistors (there are just over a billion of them left), there are pluses.
The advantage can be considered the presence of a unique design of the radiator and high-quality cooling. Vapor-X has added its additions in the form of an 80 mm cooler that perfectly cools the entire printed circuit board. The capillary heat removal system acts in this way - a certain amount of moisture is injected onto the processor, which, gradually heating up, evaporates, removing most of the thermal energy. The width of the memory bus has remained the same compared to the previous series - 128 bits, and the memory size has grown to one gigabyte.
Radeon HD 5770
This representative of the ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series is almost as good as the flagship of the previous generation, namely the Radeon HD 4870. In the new generation graphics card, the frequencies of stream processors are much higher, and the number of transistors has increased significantly.
What can not be taken away from the new video card, DirectX 11.0 support and the presence of Radeon-Eyefinity technology. This technology does not affect performance, unlike CrossFire, which allows you to connect multiple video adapters, increasing their frequency and bandwidth. In terms of frequency, the Radeon HD 5770 is slightly ahead of its younger brother, increasing operating frequencies to 1200 megahertz, when it was 1150 megahertz at 5750.
The price indicators are confusing, because the cost of this card is 6 thousand rubles, when for the same performance you can pay 4 thousand rubles for the HD 5750.
A good graphics card with high performance has proven itself to be quiet and cold in operation. However, many manufacturers, having received the basic version of the ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, add various modifications in the form of overclocking or additional cooling. The last parameter is especially important, since the card will behave quietly even when working with a three-dimensional image.
ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series: reviews
Users who purchased graphics accelerators of this generation noted a low noise level. New games are difficult - stable 30 frames in new products at low settings. But also many say that with proper care, the video card can last for many years. A big plus is the presence of a large amount of video memory than few video cards of that time could boast of.
As for the negative reviews, there are a lot of them. Many users complained about the frequent change in thermal paste due to the constant heating of the chip itself. And the complaints also touched on the topic of cutting the memory bus, which was halved from the previous series, which negatively affected the overall performance.
The price range also caused customer indignation, since in the price-quality ratio the video cards from this manufacturer were very different from the "green" competitors.