Quick Look: PowerColor’s Radeon HD 5770 PCS+ Vortex Edition
by Ryan Smith on August 25, 2010 11:22 AM EST- Posted in
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- AMD
- Radeon
- PowerColor
The Test & Performance
As the Vortex has a slight factory overclock compared to a stock-clocked 5770, we’ve run our usual gauntlet of benchmarks. We’ll forgo the running commentary, but with a 5% core overclock and 2% memory overclock, the card performs a few percent better than the stock-clocked 5770 on average.
| CPU: | Intel Core i7-920 @ 3.33GHz |
| Motherboard: | Asus Rampage II Extreme |
| Chipset Drivers: | Intel 9.1.1.1015 (Intel) |
| Hard Disk: | OCZ Summit (120GB) |
| Memory: | Patriot Viper DDR3-1333 3 x 2GB (7-7-7-20) |
| Video Cards: |
AMD Radeon HD 5970 AMD Radeon HD 5870 AMD Radeon HD 5850 AMD Radeon HD 5830 AMD Radeon HD 5770 AMD Radeon HD 5750 AMD Radeon HD 4890 AMD Radeon HD 4870 1GB AMD Radeon HD 4850 AMD Radeon HD 3870 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB PowerColor Radeon HD 5770 PCS+ Vortex Edition |
| Video Drivers: |
NVIDIA ForceWare 197.13 NVIDIA ForceWare 257.15 Beta NVIDIA ForceWare 258.80 Beta AMD Catalyst 10.3a AMD Catalyst 10.7 |
| OS: | Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit |
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JimmiG - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - link
So the cooler manages to be almost as good as the stock cooler while being louder and potentially taking up more space. The card itself is about as overclockable as any other 5770 card and comes with a 6% factory overclock, while costing 10% more than other 5770 cards. No thanks.Ryan Smith - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - link
Just to be clear, the cooler takes up no additional space unless you extend the fan. When it's lowered it's no wider than any other double-slot card, and since it's shorter overall it's smaller than the reference 5770.GatoRat - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - link
This makes me want to buy a NVidia GTX 460! Runs cooler and faster and uses less power! The 768MB version sells for only $30 more.Goty - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - link
Yeah, a whole 2-3 watts less at idle. Whoopee?Taft12 - Thursday, August 26, 2010 - link
... along with 40W more power at load and not $30 more, but $50 more.The GTX460 is a great product but can we please keep the fanboy exaggerations down?
JarredWalton - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - link
I am not interested in 3-slot GPUs. What I'd actually like to see is a review of the single-slot 5770 by XFX. Mostly, what happens to noise and temperatures on that card. But then, I have a rather odd BTX motherboard/system that won't let me use more than a single-slot GPU. :-)ggathagan - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - link
Jarred,As an SB86i owner, I agree, but until Anand gets you one to test:
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canu...
Canuck's biggest beef: XFX gave up the HDMI connection for a 2nd DVI connection.
You gotta' talk to your boss about what's important.... :)
spac18 - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - link
Hi everybody. I signed up to anandtech forums couple of weeks ago and activatrd my account. I can log into my account but when I try to post, it says that I dont have enough previleges or permisions to post. Whats going on? Sorry for being off topic, but this is the only way I can get help.LordanSS - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - link
I was wondering if it'd be too much trouble, or impossible, to add more graphics cards to the GPU Bench... namely the mainstream cards? At least from this generation (5430->5475, 5570, and the nVidia equivalents, that jazz).Would be nice to have a couple from the old generation too (4650/4670, 4770, etc). Those cards are still widely available here in Brazil (and I suspect in the US too), so having a direct comparison tool like Bench, to see how much could be gained from an upgrade, or new build, would be really nice. =)
Keep up the good work! =)
vol7ron - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - link
It's true, this site is not the best GPU review site. http://www.gpureview.com/ is okay.The articles are quality, but GPU review is not like CPU review, there are so many cards out there. Mobos and GPUs just require fulltime staff and lots of capital to test.