AMD’s Radeon HD 5770 & 5750: DirectX 11 for the Mainstream Crowd
by Ryan Smith on October 13, 2009 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Far Cry 2
Far Cry 2 is another foliage-heavy game. Thankfully it’s not nearly as punishing as Crysis, and it’s possible to achieve a good framerate even with all the settings at their highest.
Update: When we first published this article, we had some anomalously high results for the 5770 at 1680 and 1920. We have found the reason for this and corrected it. This brings the 5770's scores down by 10fps or so.
Compared to Crysis: Warhead, Far Cry 2 paints a better picture for the 5770. Here it just manages to beat out our 4870, which may be slightly disappointing for those of you that are expecting a decisive victory over the 4870, but it's better than a loss like in Crysis. The GTX 260 is also neck-and-neck with our two Radeon cards here.
Far Cry 2 also paints an interesting case for the 5750 in comparison to the 4850. Far Cry 2 likes RAM, particularly on AMD cards. With the 1GB on our 5750, it doubles the terrible performance of the 4850. This is going to be the exception to the norm here though.
Finally, with the solid performance of the 5770, a 5850 buys around 40% performance improvement here.
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silverblue - Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - link
With any luck they'll become plentiful in a short space of time, offering early adopters the chance to set up a decent EF, umm, setup.If you think the typical EF setup will be two or three monitors, do you expect the full six monitor glory with an X2 part? I'm still wondering if even the 5870 can handle three monitors and still offer smooth gaming performance. That said, despite their power they're not going to strictly be gaming cards.
papapapapapapapababy - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
the fact that this cards consume little power is irrelevant when you have that great efficiency on the 5800... also including the Eyefinity gimmick here is a mistake, it only diminishes the value of that feature on the 5800. It should have been 1 card. HD 5770:no Eyefinity, 800 SP, 750MHz, 512MB = $99 USD
CarrellK - Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - link
Eyefinity (EF) will be in all 5xxx products for a multiplicity of useful reasons, many of which aren't apparent yet. There will be frequent roll-outs of new EF goodness. There will be many, many customers who will find EF very useful. Hopefully you will realize what EF can do for you and buy one of our products. We'd like for you to be a happy customer of ours.CarrellK
yacoub - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
" It should have been 1 card. HD 5770:no Eyefinity, 800 SP, 750MHz, 512MB = $99 USD "
Close, but no. 1GB of VRAM is mandatory anymore, and it needs the 256-bit bus or more texturing units and ROPs. And then it could be $125.
yacoub - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
Something's wrong when two of these in CrossFire can't match a single 5850. Blah.qwertymac93 - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
why no mention of 4770? i know its older and slower, but its also 40nm like the 5750 and is the same price, it would be nice to see the difference between the two as they are specked quite closely(640sp@750mhz, 720sp@700mhz, both 128bit gddr5)snarfbot - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
legion hardware has a good review comparing them both.the 5750 is between 1-3 fps faster.
the 5750 has better overclocking potential thanks to the ram i guess, but im not sure if its worth the extra 25 bucks.
kinda a wait and see thing for this part
Seramics - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
Yet another good reviews from AT, thanks Ryan. However, it becomes clear cards like HD5870 and HD5770 isnt a very good performer for its price. HD5850 and HD5750 512MB repeesents a more solid bang for bucks. Again its very amazing that AMD has been able to bring us so many next gen DX11 cards when Windows 7 isnt even launched yet and their competitor is being super slow by onli recently releasing a non high end part of G200 derivatives. That being said, from the point of view of solely performance, Cypress and Juniper is kinda a disappointing performer for its price, as well as for its specifications.pullmyfoot - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
Hmm. I was expecting the 5770 to perform either at the 4890 levels or slightly slower at very least while running cooler and taking up less power. This is quite disappointing. I was all ready to get one to replace my 4850 if the price was right. I wonder how well they can tweak the drivers for this thing.yacoub - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
Same here, although I'd replace my 8800GT with it. I expected about 25% more performance, and about $10 less MSRP ($150).