ATI Radeon HD 5670: Direct3D 11 and OpenGL 3.2 for the Masses

AMD has released today the Radeon HD 5670 (codenamed Redwood), the first member of its new line of mainstream graphics cards (HD 5600 series). In short, Radeon HD 5670 performance is between NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 and ATI Radeon HD 4770. And to compare with HD 5000 series, the HD 5670 is slightly less than half of a HD 5770 in performance.

AMD’s Evergreen family

The HD 5670 does not require an external power.

Radeon HD 5670 main features

• GPU: Redwood @ 775MHz / 40nm
• Shader cores (or stream processors): 400 or 5 SIMD engines
• Memory: 512MB/1024MB GDDR5 @ 1000MHz 128-bit
• Texture units: 20
• Color ROPs: 8
• Z / stencil ROPs: 32
• TDP: 61W (idle=14W)
• 3D APIs: OpenGL 3.2 and Direct3D 11
• GPU Computing: OpenCL and DirectCompute
• CrossFire support via PCI Express bus
• Price: around $120 US

FurMark 1.7.0 performance test:

Unigine Direct3D 11 performance test:

Temperature test with FurMark: up to 74°C (idle=42°C)

Power consumption with FurMark: 226W-152W = 76W

Reviews

• Sapphire Radeon HD 5670 512MB / 1GB Video Card Review @ LegitReviews
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  HIS Radeon HD 5670 IceQ 512 MB @ techPowerUp
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  AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 5670 Review @ [H]ard|OCP
• Radeon HD 5670 review (Crossfire tested) @ Guru3D
• Radeon HD 5670 (Redwood) reviewed: DirectX 11 for less than 100 Euros @ PCGH
• AMD’s Radeon HD 5670: Sub-$100 DirectX 11 Starts Today @ AnandTech
• Sapphire HD 5670 1GB GDDR5 Review @ HardwareCanucks

MSI Radeon HD 5670 – source