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PowerColor Radeon HD 5870 Gets Watercooled

NVIDIA is on its way towards finally covering the entire graphics market and Advanced Micro Devices won't manage to bring out anything new for a while. AMD also does not seem to have any intention of lowering its price points. This is just another reason for its partners to once again bring out customized versio...

23 July 2010
02:36 GMT

MSI R5870 Lightning Gets 2GB GDDR5

Now that the GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 are, more or less, widely available, NVIDIA chose Computex as the site for the introduction of the GTX 465. This card moves the Fermi architecture closer to the mainstream. Meanwhile, ATI's partners aren't sitting idly by, of course. With the GTX 480 as the fastest s...

2 June 2010
02:36 GMT

3DMark03 Destroyed by Four HD 5870 at 1250MHz Each

Minor clock tweaks and fan-speed adjustments are quite easy to accomplish, mostly because there are a variety of applications that allow such modifications to be done with a few clicks. When it comes to serious overclocking, however, there are only few enthusiasts that have the skill, the resources and the patience n...

29 May 2010
06:48 GMT

ASUS' 2GB ROG Matrix 5870 Heads to EU Stores

When NVIDIA unleashed its GeForce GTX 480 adapter upon the market, it was proven that no AMD card could match its performance. This, however, doesn't seem to have discouraged AMD's partners in any way. In fact, graphics-card makers responded by announcing plans for newer versions of the HD 5870, with more m...

20 May 2010
05:43 GMT

PowerColor Also Unleashes Overclocked HD 5870

Now that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 graphics cards are out and winning every gaming benchmark they can find, it makes sense that partners of Advanced Micro Devices would try to somehow counter this effect with newer HD 5000 Series models. In fact, with Sapphire having already unshackled its 2GB GDDDR5-equ...

16 April 2010
05:08 GMT

Sapphire Unleashes 2GB HD 5870 Vapor-X and Toxic

Once again, a high-profile hardware company has taken a high-tier product and outfitted it with one of its best parts meant to turn it into one of the foremost representatives of its kind. In this case, AMD's well-known manufacturing partner Sapphire took the ATI Radeon HD 5870, AMD's most powerful single-...

16 April 2010
03:36 GMT

Gigabyte Shows Off Radeon HD 5870 Super Overclock

Though it has somewhat focused on bringing forth new motherboards for AMD's latest series of chipsets, Gigabyte has now proven that it hasn't been lax on the graphics card front. After releasing, like all of NVIDIA's partners, its own pair of GTX 400 cards, the company has once again broken the silence...

8 April 2010
11:52 GMT

PowerColor Joins Eyefinity 6 Bandwagon

While NVIDIA seems to have the 3D field firmly in its grasp, AMD is leading in the area of display scalability. The Eyefinity technology has been selling, as part of DirectX 11 cards, for several months. Now, AMD raised the bar somewhat by releasing its first Eyefinity 6 Version and, much in the same way NVIDIA'...

31 March 2010
11:10 GMT

Sapphire Brings HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

With the media buzzing around the recent release of NVIDIA Fermi-based GTX 470 and GTX 480 graphics controllers, AMD may have seen a special opportunity to grab some attention at its rival's expense, by launching another rather anticipated device. Advanced Micro Devices has finally come out and officially introd...

31 March 2010
09:01 GMT

AMD Finally Rolls Out the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Back when AMD announced its new Radeon HD 5xxx series of GPUs, the Sunnyvale, California-based graphics chip maker also introduced its new Eyefinity technology, a solution that would enable Radeon HD 5xxx users to enjoy a different visual experience on their cards. On that note, today the company is launching the Eye...

31 March 2010
08:34 GMT

ASUS' 2GB ROG Matrix HD 5870 Comes Forth

ASUS' Republic of Gamers Matrix HD 5870 graphics adapter has been under the watchful eye of leak-conscious web entities for quite a while but it seems that the device has seen enough skulking around. Set to become “the freshly appointed king” on the block, the adapter is superior to the reference car...

31 March 2010
05:28 GMT

ASUS Hands out Photos of HD 5870 Matrix and New 5870

ASUS has definitely been active lately, having launched or previewed not just a significant collection of new motherboards but also a range of graphics cards meant for the enthusiast market. The 4GB Ares dual-GPU HD 5970 and the 2GB ROG HD 5870 Matrix are not exactly unknown, considering that they were actually show...

19 March 2010
04:14 GMT

HIS Presents Swift and Cool iCooler V HD 5870

HIS has already introduced its Radeon HD 5830 graphics adapters, which it outfitted with its special iCooler V cooling module. Deciding that there is no reason for only certain models to make use of this cooling solution, the company has now come forth with two additional graphics adapters, namely a pair of Radeon HD...

26 February 2010
05:44 GMT

Club3D Intros Overclocked Radeon HD 5800 Cards

Proving that AMD's DirectX 11-capable cards are in full bloom, Club3D has just announced that its line of HD 5800 graphics cards is now larger by two members, namely the factory-overclocked ATI Radeon HD 5850 and ATI Radeon HD 5870 models. The company claims that its new family of devices, known simply as the Ra...

22 February 2010
04:00 GMT

HD 5870 TOP and HD 5850 DirectCu from ASUS Pictured

Companies have been supplying the graphics market segment with a steady flow of DirectX 11-capable cards from the ATI Radeon 5xxx series. Even in such conditions, market rumors and reports seem to indicate that hardware makers are, as always, working on more products than they care to say. One of the more recent occu...

13 February 2010
06:44 GMT

2GB Matrix Radeon HD 5870 from ASUS Pictured

It seems that the many heads it managed to turn with its launch of the DirectX 11-ready G73JH-X1 notebook weren't enough for ASUS. The company was even more recently revealed to be working on a “killer product” that would supposedly come out in June. This rumor already has the web debating on whether...

11 February 2010
06:27 GMT

ASUS Planning Dual-HD 5870 Ares

Not such a long time after the web was hit by rumors that Galaxy was working on a dual-GTS 250 graphics card, another report, this time from o.v.e.r.clockers.at, has ASUS allegedly planning on putting together a dual-GPU card of its own, albeit AMD-based. The rumors make the rather ambitious claim that ASUS is devisi...

30 January 2010
07:20 GMT

MSI HD 5870 Lightning Pictured

The Radeon HD 5870 graphics card from Advanced Micro Devices is already famous for its bleeding-edge overclocking capabilities. Introduced some time ago, the product has been launched in a variety of forms by different hardware manufacturers, each model pushing to surpass the competition with modifications to cooling...

23 January 2010
06:08 GMT

Radeon R5870 Lightning and R5850 Cyclone from MSI Unveiled

During the Consumer Electronics Show, MSI proudly demonstrated its latest advancements in high-end, 40nm-based graphics. The company has been working on customized graphics cards, based on AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5000-series adapters, which boast high reliability and overclocking capabilities.The two graphics adapte...

11 January 2010
04:39 GMT

MSI Video Card Sets Record for Highest 3D Mark Vantage Score

The world record for the highest graphics processing unit clock/memory speed was broken by a renowned overclocker using a system configuration that employed the MSI R5870-PM2D1G for graphics. Calling himself “Deanzo,” the overclocker built a machinery that used a significant quantity of LN2 in order to ke...

4 December 2009
09:41 GMT

Radeon HD 5870 2GB Card Packs Six DisplayPort Connectors

One of the main features that have been enabled by AMD's new series of Radeon HD 5000 GPUs (aside from the DirectX 11 support) is the integration of AMD's latest ATI Eyefinity technology, a solution that allows computer enthusiasts to use a Radeon graphics card for employment in a multi-display configurati...

6 November 2009
06:54 GMT

PowerColor Readies the Radeon HD 5870 LCS Featuring an EK Waterblock

If you are among those computer and gaming enthusiasts that are always on the lookout for the latest, high-end hardware components, then these days you are probably looking for the latest deals on the AMD Radeon HD 5800 Series GPUs. These cards currently deliver the best performance on the market, featuring a 40nm GP...

7 October 2009
06:29 GMT

Smoothcreations Unveils the Radeon HD 5870 1GB XOC Havoc

As you probably already know, AMD's next-generation Radeon HD 58xx series of graphics cards has been officially announced by the company just a couple of days ago, providing computer enthusiasts with a choice for the world's fastest single-GPU graphics card. Following the official introduction that came fro...

28 September 2009
04:32 GMT

Radeon HD 5870 Listed by Leading Graphics Card Makers

As you might have already found out, the Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices announced yesterday the debut of its next generation of desktop graphics cards, the much-anticipated Radeon HD 5800 series, providing end-users with the first DirectX 11-support line of video cards. Following the official intr...

24 September 2009
03:48 GMT

Sapphire and XFX Radeon HD 5870 Cards Surface

AMD's next-generation Radeon graphics cards, the much-anticipated DirectX 11-enabled Radeon HD 5xxx series, will reportedly be launched on September 23, providing users with a new level of performance, compared to the chip maker's current line of Radeon HD 4xxx-series. On that note, it appears that a couple...

21 September 2009
04:48 GMT

Radeon HD 5870 Briefly Listed for Pre-Order

If you’ve been having doubts that AMD is about to launch its next-generation line of desktop graphics cards, the much-anticipated Radeon HD 5xxx series, worry no more. One of the upcoming cards, the Radeon HD 5870, to be precise, has just surfaced on the website of a European e-tail shop, which can only mean th...

17 September 2009
10:54 GMT

Rumor Mill: Radeon HD 5870 in All Its Beauty

One of the most anticipated products this September is coming from Advanced Micro Devices, which is expected to announce the release of its new series of Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics cards, bringing to the market the first DirectX 11-compatible GPU. A number of leaked details on the said cards have recently made...

11 September 2009
04:17 GMT


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