ATI Radeon HD 5700 Family Summary

AMD’s mainstream products have taken up the DirectX 11 banner now. We guess the new Radeon HD 5700 series is a success and virtually free from noticeable drawbacks. There is currently a hiatus in the Radeon HD 5x00 line-up at $160-199. What card is supposed to take this niche? We will surely find the answer soon. People at AMD cannot neglect such an obvious fact.

Highs:

• Excellent performance for its class;
• Significantly outperform Radeon HD 4770;
• Top model competes successfully against GeForce GTX 260 Core 216;
• Wide range of supported FSAA modes;
• Best Edge-detect CFAA in the industry;
• Best anisotropic filtering in the industry;
• Supports up to three monitors;
• DirectX 11, Shader Model 5.0 and DirectCompute 11 support;
• Fully-fledged hardware HD video decoding;
• High-quality HD video post-processing with scalability;
• Integrated sound core with HD support;
• Sound over HDMI;
• Compact size;
• Low power consumption;
• Low noise.

 Lows:

• Performance is limited by the 128-bit memory bus..