Overclocked: Our Custom Radeon HD 5870 Roundup
by Ryan Smith on May 19, 2010 11:53 AM ESTThe Test
For this roundup we’re using our new benchmark suite that we introduced back in our review of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480. We’ve gone ahead and dropped Wolfenstein from this roundup since it’s far more CPU sensitive than it is GPU sensitive.
| CPU: | Intel Core i7-920 @ 3.33GHz |
| Motherboard: | Intel DX58SO (Intel X58) |
| 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: |
Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Toxic 2GB MSI Radeon HD 5870 Lightning Gigabyte Radeon HD 5870 Super Overclock AMD Radeon HD 5970 AMD Radeon HD 5870 AMD Radeon HD 5850 AMD Radeon HD 5830 AMD Radeon HD 4890 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 |
| Video Drivers: |
NVIDIA ForceWare 197.13 NVIDIA ForceWare 197.17 AMD Catalyst 10.3a AMD Catalyst 10.4 |
| OS: | Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit |
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Ryan Smith - Friday, May 21, 2010 - link
I have one, but it just arrived, which was after the deadline for this article. We'll have a review of it up next week.Etern205 - Friday, May 21, 2010 - link
Looking forward to that article, can't wait to read it.swing848 - Saturday, June 26, 2010 - link
You may have come close to hitting ATI's next GPU when you mentioned "4890-style respin". Southern Islands is highly anticipated.