In order to bring DirectX 11 to the masses, AMD has launched its fifth DirectX 11 card, the HD 5670. The HD 5670 is based on the 40nm Redwood GPU and provides rather nice performance. It will be available in two versions, one with 1GB and one with 512MB of GDDR5 memory and has a price of somewhere between €70 and €100 depending on the SKU.

The GPU works at 775MHz and, as noted, comes with either 512MB or 1GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4000MHz and paired up with a 128-bit memory interface. It features 400 stream processors and 20 texture units and brings support for DirectX 11, CrossfireX and ATI Eyefinity technology. 

We are sure that almost every AMD AIB partner will show its own card soon, and some might be quite interesting considering that most will partners will change the reference cooler, but for now Sapphire is the only one that got listed and can be found here. 

A bunch of reviews have already gone online, and our own is also on the way. Those published reviews are all basically barking at the same tree, when put against the GT 240, the HD 5670 really shines, as it shatters the Geforce card in every single benchmark, not to mention that it's smaller, cheaper to produce and has similar temperatures and power draw. 

On the other hand, when compared to the HD 4670 and even HD 4850, you come across the ultimate question of whether you actually need DX 11, Eyefinity and other features and do those features actually justify the price difference, or you are just looking for a card that can produce more frames per second. 

The bottom line is that the HD 5670 puts a lot of Nvidia cards in a world of trouble, as it shatters the GT 240 and can stand its ground against the 9800GT. On top of all that, we're confident that AMD still has some room for price adjustments which will come sooner or later. 

Here are some of the reviews. 

- Anandtech
- Overclockersclub
- Tweaktown
- TechPowerUp
- Hothardware
- Legit Reviews
- ATI-Forum (German)