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Today is HD 5800 day

by on23 September 2009

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Reviews coming up, stores still empty

The AMD HD 5800 day has finally come, and as would expect, a bunch of HD 5870 reviews have already gone online. Unfortunately, the cards are still not available but listed at some shops so we guess that they should be available pretty soon. The bottom line is clear, ATI has a DirectX 11 card that is faster than its HD 4870 X2 card and any other single GPU card for that matter.

You also shouldn't forget Eyefinity, which gives this card a bonus feature if you ever happen to need it. Of course, the vast majority of gamers would rather stick to single or in best case scenario, a dual screen setup, but for those that need it, it will be a nice add-on as it makes the US $250 priced Matrox TripleHead2Go quite obsolete.

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The new HD 5870 is priced at US $379.99, something that came as a bitter surprise considering the HD 4870 US $299 price tag at launch, but most, if not all, reviews agree that its a decent price for such a product considering the performance boost, features and DirectX 11 support. Unfortunately, not a single review of the HD 5850 card hasn't come online.

This card should be priced at US $259 and should be capable of providing the performance which is close to the Nvidia GTX 285 card. In the previous generation, ATI stuck with DDR3 memory on the HD 4850, while it opted for GDDR5 on the HD 4870. This time around both cards feature GDDR5 and we're expecting AIBs to come up with interesting non-reference version of the HD 5850

In any case, here is the full list of reviews that has gone online and we will add some more once they start to appear.

- AnandTech
- TechPowerUp
- Guru3D
- X-Bit Labs
- Overclockers Club
- HotHardware
- Legit Reviews
- Tweaktown
- PCGamesHardware
- PCEkspert.com

Last modified on 23 September 2009
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