Based on 14,971 user benchmarks for the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 and the Nvidia GeForce 610M, we rank them both on effective speed and value for money against the best 639 GPUs. ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5470 GPU Specifications. 292 million 40nm transistors. TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture o 80 Stream Processing Units o 8 Texture Units o 16 Z/Stencil ROP Units o 4 Color ROP Units. GDDR5/DDR3 memory interface. PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface. DirectX® 11 support o Shader Model 5.0 o DirectCompute 11.
Ah good gawd man.. it has been a while since we had something really new to report from that big graphics arena we all like so much. Yeah, it's probably no secret that AMD ATI today launches their Radeon series 5000 cards today as well.. every technical detail was leaked like two weeks ago.
None the less, for true facts and no fiction, you know where you need to be. With the press being briefed two weeks in advance we can tell you we are eager to bring you a nice lengthy article with all the ins and outs of the AMD ATI product lineup. Here's what is being announced today:
ATI Radeon Series 5800:
- Radeon HD 5850 (299 USD)
- Radeon HD 5870 (399 USD)
So before I start off, let me state that our focus today will be the Radeon HD 5870, the Radeon HD 5850 samples have not been distributed just yet and will likely arrive in two weeks' time. The Radeon HD 5870.. it's a beast, it's dark, really a little evil and it's just so much freaking fun. You have no idea. Why am I making silly euphemisms you ask? Well, I always tend to do that when I am excited about a product. Face it, we have had a dull year when it comes to graphics cards. DirectX 11 is now around the corner and as such both ATI and NVIDIA have been preparing themselves to show off their latest and greatest. Today, AMD's graphics subdivision ATI.
ATI has been focusing on three primary features and key selling points for the series 5000 products. First off, the new graphics adapters are of course DirectX 11 ready. With Windows 7 and Vista being DX11 ready all we need are some games to take advantage of DirectCompute, multi-threading, Hardware Tessellation and new shader 5.0 extensions. DX11 is going to be good. More on that later on in this article of course.
Another big feature of the product that you already learned about is of course Eyefinity, the ability to connect one to up-to six monitors (depending on AIC/AIB choices in outputs) to your videocard and use it in a desktop environment, or to create an incredible wide monitor resolution to play games in. It's nice, it is niche and yes.. certainly not an option many of you will use.. but really it is breathtaking as well. We'll explain this in a separate chapter though.
The third big and prominent feature is of course performance. Often in the past we have seen a new OS released with a new class of DirectX. Typically manufacturers like ATI and NVIDIA kept performance low and product costs low, barely allowing new titles to be played well with the new graphics cards. ATI has changed the rules today as the Radeon HD 5870 now has 1600 stream processors (shader processors). ATI litrerally doubled up everything inside that GPU and as such we spot a GPU die with 2.15 billion transistors. That's 2150 million transistors you guys. In comparison, the Radeon HD 4890 has 956 million.
Based on 14,971 user benchmarks for the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 and the Nvidia GeForce 610M, we rank them both on effective speed and value for money against the best 639 GPUs. ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5470 GPU Specifications. 292 million 40nm transistors. TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture o 80 Stream Processing Units o 8 Texture Units o 16 Z/Stencil ROP Units o 4 Color ROP Units. GDDR5/DDR3 memory interface. PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface. DirectX® 11 support o Shader Model 5.0 o DirectCompute 11.
Ah good gawd man.. it has been a while since we had something really new to report from that big graphics arena we all like so much. Yeah, it's probably no secret that AMD ATI today launches their Radeon series 5000 cards today as well.. every technical detail was leaked like two weeks ago.
None the less, for true facts and no fiction, you know where you need to be. With the press being briefed two weeks in advance we can tell you we are eager to bring you a nice lengthy article with all the ins and outs of the AMD ATI product lineup. Here's what is being announced today:
ATI Radeon Series 5800:
- Radeon HD 5850 (299 USD)
- Radeon HD 5870 (399 USD)
So before I start off, let me state that our focus today will be the Radeon HD 5870, the Radeon HD 5850 samples have not been distributed just yet and will likely arrive in two weeks' time. The Radeon HD 5870.. it's a beast, it's dark, really a little evil and it's just so much freaking fun. You have no idea. Why am I making silly euphemisms you ask? Well, I always tend to do that when I am excited about a product. Face it, we have had a dull year when it comes to graphics cards. DirectX 11 is now around the corner and as such both ATI and NVIDIA have been preparing themselves to show off their latest and greatest. Today, AMD's graphics subdivision ATI.
ATI has been focusing on three primary features and key selling points for the series 5000 products. First off, the new graphics adapters are of course DirectX 11 ready. With Windows 7 and Vista being DX11 ready all we need are some games to take advantage of DirectCompute, multi-threading, Hardware Tessellation and new shader 5.0 extensions. DX11 is going to be good. More on that later on in this article of course.
Another big feature of the product that you already learned about is of course Eyefinity, the ability to connect one to up-to six monitors (depending on AIC/AIB choices in outputs) to your videocard and use it in a desktop environment, or to create an incredible wide monitor resolution to play games in. It's nice, it is niche and yes.. certainly not an option many of you will use.. but really it is breathtaking as well. We'll explain this in a separate chapter though.
The third big and prominent feature is of course performance. Often in the past we have seen a new OS released with a new class of DirectX. Typically manufacturers like ATI and NVIDIA kept performance low and product costs low, barely allowing new titles to be played well with the new graphics cards. ATI has changed the rules today as the Radeon HD 5870 now has 1600 stream processors (shader processors). ATI litrerally doubled up everything inside that GPU and as such we spot a GPU die with 2.15 billion transistors. That's 2150 million transistors you guys. In comparison, the Radeon HD 4890 has 956 million.
So quite a lot in the architecture of this GPU has changed with one important task in mind, creating the absolute fastest single-GPU based graphics card on the market. The Radeon HD 5870 to date will be the world's most powerful GPU pushing more than 2.7 TFLOPS of computing power; it's the first DX11 GPU on the market and, as this article will show, also comes with a revolutionary energy design as this card's peak wattage is only 188 Watts.
So without further ado, have a peek at the Radeon HD 5870 1024MB, then head on over to the next page where we'll startup a nice in-depth review. Guru style.. what else?
Well now -- today ATI is launching their most low-cost series of graphics cards in the 5000 range. You guys know this under codename Cedar and if we dig a little deeper, this would be the RV810 GPU.
We already spilled the beans a little, this card has nothing to do with gaming, though in all honesty it's still twice as fast as any standard embedded IGP out there. But with merely 80 shader processors, sure this has very little to do with gaming in the year 2010.
But what can you do with the Radeon HD 5450 then ? Well first off, it's certainly a diverse graphics card. The reference sample we received already has thee monitor outputs, that offers flexibility. Now armed with Eyefinity support you can drive up-to 3 monitors simultaneously as well, and sure again . not for gaming, but for desktop usage or a nice presentation that kicks ass at 49 USD -- I really don't even want to mention the 299 USD Matrox Triplehead2Go anymore here as that product just doesn't make sense any longer.
Process | |
Transistors | 292M |
Engine Clock | 650 MHz |
Stream Processors | 80 |
Compute Performance | 104 GFLOPS |
Texture Units | 8 |
Texture Fillrate | 5.2 GTexels/s |
ROPs | 4 |
Pixel Fillrate | 2.6 Gpixel/s |
Z/Stencil | 10.4 GSamples/s |
Memory Type | DDR3 / DDR2 |
Memory Clock | Up to 800 MHz |
Memory Data Rate | Up to 1.8 Gbps |
Memory Bandwidth | Up to 12.8 GB/s |
Typical Board Power | 19.1 W |
Idle Board Power | 6.4 W |
Radeon Hd 5470 Review
So we determined that the Radeon HD 5450 has only 80 Stream processors, to reflect that number; the most high-end Single GPU from ATI has 1600 of em. Quite a difference. But the 80 Shader processors can still be used to assist several compute based applications, it can speed up your Flash animations, help along with video transcoding but most of all the 80 Shader processors can be utilized with software like Media player Classic HT to optimize image quality (post process) with better colors, depth and image sharpening. Euro truck simulator 2 scandinavia skidrow. We'll show you that in this article.
The card also embeds the updated UVD 2.0 engine to fully help accelerate and decode high-definition content like Blu-ray. We'll talk about UVD 2.0 in a minute though. Let's sift through a comparison.
Radeon Hd 5470 Review Lenovo
| Radeon HD 5450 | Radeon HD 5670 | Radeon HD 5750 | Radeon HD 5770 | Radeon HD 5870 | |
| Process | 40nm | 40nm | 40nm | 40nm | 40nm |
| Transistors | 292M | 627M | 1.04B | 1.04B | 2.15B |
| Core Clock | 650 MHz | 775 MHz | 725 MHz | 850 MHz | 850 MHz |
| Shader Processors | 80 | 400 | 720 | 800 | 1600 |
| Compute Performance | 104 GFLOPs | 620 GFLOPs | 1.008 TFLOPs | 1.36 TFLOPs | 2.72 TFLOPs |
| Texture Units | 8 | 20 | 36 | 40 | 80 |
| Texture Fillrate | 5.2 GTexels/s | 15.5 GTexels/s | 25.2 GTexels/s | 34 GTexels/s | 68.0 GTexels/s |
| ROPs | 4 | 8 | 16 | 16 | 32 |
| Pixel Fillrate | 2.6 GPixels/s | 3.2 GPixels/s | 11.2 GPixels/s | 13.6 GPixels/s | 27.2 GPixels/s |
| Z/Stencil | 10.4 GSamples/s | 24.8 GSamples/s | 44.8 GSamples/s | 54.4 GSamples/s | 108.8 GSamples/s |
| Memory Type | GDDR3/2 | GDDR5 | GDDR5 | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Clock | 800~900 MHz | 1000 MHz | 1150 MHz | 1200 | 1200 MHz |
| Memory Data Rate | 1.8 Gbps | 4.0 Gbps | 4.6 Gbps | 4.8 Gbps | 4.8 Gbps |
| Memory Bandwidth | 12.8 GB/s | 64 GB/s | 73.6 GB/s | 76.8 GB/s | 153.6GB/s |
| Maximum Board Power (TDP) | 19W | 61W | 86W | 108W | 188W |
| Idle Board Power | 6W | 14W | 16W | 18 | 27W |
Radeon Hd 5470 Review Guide
As you can see, power consumption wise these puppies are going to shine, not even a 6-pin power cable connector is needed as the peak wattages are well below the 75 Watt PCIe slot limitation. The maximum wattage (TDP) is just 19 Watts and when the card is idling it will use up only 6W of power thanks to many clever power saving scheme's and well, the lack of huge numbers of transistors.
The 5450 infact achieves a low 6W IDLE power consumption by clocking down in several power stages. Thus a low engine (core) clock frequency with lowered voltages and lower GDDR3 memory power. Clocked down the GPU runs 157 MHz from 650 MHz and the memory 200 MHz, coming from 900 MHz.
