ATI Radeon HD 5750 & 5770 reviews now LIVE!

LeJosh · 13 Oct 2009 at 12:15

I might get the 5770 to replace my 4850. Seems like a reasonable side-step/sort of upgrade.

I like the idle power usage and consumption is a big deal for me in my house.

Edit - Anandtech has the 4850 idle temps at 62 degrees? :confused:

Mine has always said around 40 degrees in GPU-Z. Either I'm wrong or they're wrong.

HeX · 13 Oct 2009 at 12:48

LeJosh said:
I might get the 5770 to replace my 4850. Seems like a reasonable side-step/sort of upgrade. I like the idle power usage and consumption is a big deal for me in my house.

Edit - Anandtech has the 4850 idle temps at 62 degrees? Mine has always said around 40 degrees in GPU-Z. Either I'm wrong or they're wrong.

Stock cooler on the 4850's (single slot effort) used to idle in the 60's and load in the high 80's.

They were rubbish. The 3rd party cooled ones were much better.

Andric · 13 Oct 2009 at 12:52

Once lower in price my HTPC wil be getting an upgrade looks like.

Locky · 13 Oct 2009 at 12:53

marc512 said:
but what happens if you want to play DX11 games? i will sacrifice a small disadvantage in performance/power consumption to play dx11 games. If a card can play all dx10 dx11 games on reasonably high settings its a good card. If it can only play dx10 i see no point ( my opinion )

DX11 is pointless on this card, it will be dog slow and you will have to resort to playing the game in DX10/10.1

LeJosh · 13 Oct 2009 at 12:54

HeX said:
Stock cooler on the 4850's (single slot effort) used to idle in the 60's and load in the high 80's.

They were rubbish. The 3rd party cooled ones were much better.

Oh ****. I have a 3rd part cooler... Silly me.

That's what 4 hours sleep does to you whilst at college. haha

marc512 · 13 Oct 2009 at 12:55

Locky said:
DX11 is pointless on this card, it will be dog slow and you will have to resort to playing the game in DX10/10.1

but isnt dx11 ment to have performance upgrade aswell? isnt it ment to make the games run smoother with better detail somehow on lower cards?

Final8y · 13 Oct 2009 at 12:57

Locky said:
DX11 is pointless on this card, it will be dog slow and you will have to resort to playing the game in DX10/10.1

You do not know that until benches of DX11 are shown & under condition of Battleforge where the use of Dx11 is for efficiency purposes instead of adding more candy, the card should be faster in DX11 than it is in DX10&10.1 under those circumstances.

gurusan · 13 Oct 2009 at 13:05

Locky said:
DX11 is pointless on this card, it will be dog slow and you will have to resort to playing the game in DX10/10.1

How do you figure that when DX11 has been shown to be more efficient...not to mention 2 of these in CF are between a 5850 and 5870

Locky · 13 Oct 2009 at 13:20

Ok then I will reserve Judgement on DX11 part.

Final8y · 13 Oct 2009 at 13:23

Found one.
http://firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_radeon_5770_5750_performance/page6.asp

Wakinglimb · 13 Oct 2009 at 15:03

marc512 said:
but what happens if you want to play DX11 games? i will sacrifice a small disadvantage in performance/power consumption to play dx11 games. If a card can play all dx10 dx11 games on reasonably high settings its a good card. If it can only play dx10 i see no point ( my opinion )

I was talking about the 57X0 in my post. Right now the 4890 is the better purchase, but when the 5770 gets down to £100ish on a TWO deal, I would snap up a couple for some low power CF funtimes.

HeX · 13 Oct 2009 at 15:11

You can find em now for not much more than that, hence i've grabbed 2

Sumanji · 13 Oct 2009 at 18:07

Hey dudes,

Seems like both the 5750 and 5770 need an additional PEG power connector

just wondering if anyone has seen, or heard of, any low power versions that don't need this.

Cheers,

Su

james.miller · 13 Oct 2009 at 18:27

i was ready to press the button on the 5770. now im not so sure....i think i might save a few bob for a 5850 instead

TheMorningStar · 13 Oct 2009 at 19:37

before VAT and not accounting for 5%(veriable) american sales tax or the fact that many stores in america sell below RRP these cards retail for £80ish & £100ish

I hate this country. Deeply.

straxusii · 13 Oct 2009 at 20:08

Multi GPU issues, no thanks

Stonedofmoo · 13 Oct 2009 at 21:49

Look OK, I'm disappointed they aren't quicker. Been waiting a long time for these only to find they're not really any faster than my GTS250 which is years old tech...

I'll wait and see if Gigabyte launch a Silent Cell version of the 5770. I'd probably get that if they do...

straxusii · 13 Oct 2009 at 22:00

Stonedofmoo said:
Look OK, I'm disappointed they aren't quicker. Been waiting a long time for these only to find they're not really any faster than my GTS250 which is years old tech...

I'll wait and see if Gigabyte launch a Silent Cell version of the 5770. I'd probably get that if they do...

Just wait a couple of months and hopefully the 5850 will be down to ~£150

rjk · 13 Oct 2009 at 23:07

Locky said:
DX11 is pointless on this card, it will be dog slow and you will have to resort to playing the game in DX10/10.1

exactly this - agree 100%- its like a 9500gt with 1gb of memory

it will be slow gddr2 fail but some noob will buy it because they thing 1gb is good for a sub £50 gpu

when in actual fact it will just be a sack of fail

DX11 on a sub £200 card will be the same as DX10 was on any card except the 8800GTX when that came out

Final8y · 14 Oct 2009 at 03:33

rjkoneill said:
exactly this - agree 100%- its like a 9500gt with 1gb of memory

it will be slow gddr2 fail but some noob will buy it because they thing 1gb is good for a sub £50 gpu

when in actual fact it will just be a sack of fail

DX11 on a sub £200 card will be the same as DX10 was on any card except the 8800GTX when that came out

DX11 on a subb £200 besides games is there for other features & compatibility is nothing like the 1GB on a 9500 which will serve no useful purpose & if have not seen the link i posted it is faster in DX11 than in DX10 which would leave the only logical conclusion is that the card should only support DX9 which would really help the platform move forwards feature wise.