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SAPPHIRE HD5870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition)
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Expand. Accelerate. Dominate
Prepare to experience a riveting high-definition gaming experience with ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series graphics processors. Expand your visual real estate across up to three displays and get lost in the action with revolutionary ATI Eyefinity Technology. Using ATI Stream technology, accelerate even the most demanding applications and do more than ever with your PC.3 The first to deliver full support for Microsoft DirectX® 11, these GPUs enable rich, realistic visuals and explosive HD gaming performance so you can dominate the competition.
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Triple Your Vision With Eyefinity.
Get truly immersive entertainment (gaming and video) experience and help boost productivity (home and office) with ATI Eyefinity Technology, extreme multi-monitor support.
ATI Eyefinity technology maximizes your field of view across up to three displays, fully engaging your peripheral vision and putting you right IN the game.
- Flight Sim and Racing Games:
Create the ultimate flight or racing simulation platform by extending supported games across multiple displays for a panoramic view that gives you a true sense of height andspeed.
- Role-playing Games (RPG):
Get a bird’s-eye view and spread out game information across multiple screens and still stay in the center of the action.
- Real-time strategy (RTS):
See more of the battlefield without having to zoom.
- First-Person Shooter (FPS):
Get a better view of what’s going on around you, use your peripheral vision so you can see the enemy before they see you.
Help increase productivity by maximizing your visual workspace so you can see more Windows simultaneously
The perfect solution for your home or office, ATI Eyefinity technology makes multi-tasking a snap by eliminating the need to flip between windows. Surf the internet, do email, edit
photos or videos, track your stocks and much more all at the same time.
ATI Eyefinity technology is ideal for multimedia applications; it allows you to keep several ‘palettes’ or ‘panels’ open while you edit images or videos.
Accelerate
Perform tasks on a PC faster with ATI Stream technology, speed up demanding everyday applications and get more done in less time.
Unleash the massive parallel processing power of your GPU to help you do more with your PC than ever before.
With multimedia softwares that support ATI Stream, users can enjoy fast video encoding and transcoding so video playback, editing and transferring content to portable media players is quick and easy.
DirectCompute presents even more opportunities for you to take advantage of your ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series GPU for tasks other than just rendering
- DirectCompute, helps improve PC performance by taking on some or all of a DirectX 11-enabled application’s processing load, freeing up the computer’s mainprocessor to take on additional tasks.
- DirectX 11-enabled applications are designed for fast performance on your PC running Windows 7. In addition, programs designed for Windows 7 can convert a digital media file to a different size or format can perform a faster conversion (i.e. transcode) under Windows 7 than under previous versions of WIndows.
- Windows® 7 with built-in drag and drop transcoding is a great example how ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series GPUs provide an exceptional experience for the upcoming operating system.
- High performance anisotropic filtering and 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) smooth jagged edges and create true-to-life graphics, for everything from grass to facial features.
Dominate
With DirectX® 11 support you can play the latest HD games with unrivalled visual quality, astonishing realism and ultra-fast frame rates.
Get unrivalled visual quality and intense gaming performance and for today and tomorrow with support for Microsoft® DirectX® 11
- ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series graphics accelerators and software drivers are the first to offer full support for Microsoft DirectX® 11.
- Get striking 3D visual effects and dynamic interactivity with DirectX® 11 support, including features like HDR Texture Compression, DirectCompute and Tessellation.
- DirectX® 11 brings new levels of visual realism to gaming on the PC and you’ll get top-notch performance for these titles with ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series GPUs.
Get AMDs most advanced technology and massive compute power with ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series GPUs
- AMD’s 2nd generation TeraScale engine dramatically increases the processing power over the previous generation.
- Feel the power of more than 2 teraFLOPS plowing through the most demanding games.
- Experience the speed, responsiveness and performance of ultra-high bandwidth GDDR5memory.
- Get up to 1.8X of a graphics performance boost with ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode.
ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series GPUs are designed to deliver all the benefits of Microsoft Windows® 7
Engineered to take advantage of all the graphical features within the new Windows 7 operating system, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series GPUs deliver a visually compelling experience and a fast, responsive PC.
Valuable Game Bundles
*The games bundled in the box are optional and may vary depending on different sku numbers. Sapphire reserves the right to change the package content in the box.
Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 System Requirements
- PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
- 500 Watt or greater power supply with 2x 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connector recommended (600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ Technology in dual mode)
- Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSUfor a list of Certified products
- Minimum 1GB of system memory
- Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
- DVD playback requires DVD drive
- Blu-ray™ / HD DVD playback requires Blu-ray / HD DVD drive
- For an ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (optional) are required
- To support 3 displays, one of the monitors has to support DisplayPort.
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| Microsoft DirectX® 11 Support |
| ATI Stream Technology
- Designed for DirectCompute 5.0 and OpenCL
- Accelerate Video Transcoding
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| Advanced GDDR5 Memory Technology |
| 2nd Generation TeraScale Engine |
| Microsoft Windows 7® Support |
| ATI CrossFireX™ Technology |
| Enhanced Anisotropic Filtering |
| Accelerated Video Transcoding |
| Display Flexibility, Supports DL-DVI, DP, HDMI and D-Sub |
| Dolby® TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio™ Support |
| ATI PowerPlay™ Technology8 – Enhanced Support for GDDR5 memory |
| ATI Avivo™ Technology Enhanced Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) |
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| I/O Output: Dual DL-DVI-I+DP+HDMI, Triple Display Support |
| Memory Clock: Effective 4800 MHz |
| PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface |
| 1024MB /256bit GDDR5 memory interface |
| Dual Slot Cooler with Auto Fan Control, 2 Ball Bearing |
| On-board HDMI, supports HDMI 1.3 with High Bitrate Audio |
| Battlestation Pacific In the Box |
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| | MojMikro: Dober Nakup | | | SAPPHIRE HD5870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) |  "Pohvaliti velja tudi poln nabor priključkov (DisplayPort, HDMI, 2x DVI) ter tehnologijo Eyefinity, ki omogoča sočasno delovanje do treh monitorjev!
Zagotovo pa je glavni adut te kartice, ki je prevzela zmogljivostni naslov, njena surova moč. Zmogljivostni testi pokažejo, da ponuja HD 5870 več kot 2,7 teraflopa procesne moči, kar je za faktor dve več kot predhodni najmočnejši model."
"ATI ostaja konkurenčen in s ceno dobrih 350 evrov, za kar dobimo najmočnejšo kartico na planetu..." |  |
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| | Victus Award by Hitechlegion | | | SAPPHIRE HD5870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) | | The Sapphire 5000 Series of DirectX 11 video cards were more than capable of maintaining acceptable benchmarks in all resolutions tested. Performance was smooth and crisp in all and the gaming experience was enjoyable.
For those of you who want the best performance from your video card when gaming, the Sapphire HD 5870 will not let you down. At this time, it is the most powerful single GPU on the market. It is also capable of maintaining acceptable frame rates at any resolution, even with AA and AF set to max.
For those of you who still seek great gaming performance, but a 5870 is not in your budget, the Sapphire HD 5850 shouldn’t be considered a step down since there was only about a 15% difference in performance between the two, yet at a more affordable price.
If you're getting ready for a change and are looking for a video card that can take advantage of what your new system may have to offer, Sapphire has a line of DirectX 11 video cards that will fit any budget. | |
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| | Editor's Choice by Computer Shopper | | | SAPPHIRE HD5870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) | | We also were impressed with the card's ability to accelerate video playback, though considering its other capabilities, we didn't expect any glitches. Video playback with both DVDs and Blu-ray discs was smooth and vivid, even at HD resolutions. Plus, during our testing, the card was stable, and we didn't encounter any driver glitches. At idle, the fan is relatively quiet, but when the card is working hard, it quickly becomes the loudest component in the computer. It's not shop-vac-level distracting, but it's clearly noticeable even in a low-noise PC case.
The HD 5870 is an easy choice for performance fiends with huge monitors, and those who crank all of a game's graphics settings to 11 and want to be able to continue to do so a year in the future.
If you're running at 1,920x1,200 resolution or lower, however, ATI may just be competing with itself with its lower-end Radeon HD 5770, which offers very playable performance in today's games at those resolutions, but at a price less than half that of the Radeon HD 5870. | |
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| | Gold Tachometer Award by Benchmarkreviews | | | SAPPHIRE HD5870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) | | AMD has launched the Radeon 5870 as their first assault on their multi-monitor ATI Eyefinity Technology feature, using native HDMI 1.3 output paired with DisplayPort connectivity.
ATI Eyefinity Technology is a tough nut to crack for NVIDIA, since their DirectX 10 products only offer dual-DVI output.
For the time being, ATI's Radeon HD 5870 is the most powerful single-GPU product available, and the only graphics card capable of playing DirectX 11 games.
In summary, there's a long future ahead for the Radeon HD 5870. DirectX 11 is the future of gaming, whether the competition likes it or not, and ATI has a huge head-start on absorbing an early market share. Eyefinity is a nice touch and it certainly adds to the gaming experience, but there's such an incredibly small portion of potential users for the technology that in reality the Radeon 5800 series has only its shear graphics power to make the sales pitch. I give my recommendation for the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5870 DirectX 11 video card 21161-00-50R for high-performance gamers and multi-monitor power users.
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| | Editor's Choice by Motherboards.org | | | SAPPHIRE HD5870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) | | The Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 card is clocked at the default clock speeds which provide plenty of performance for every game out there today and if you want more performance get a second card.
This card comes with a coupon for Dirt 2 which is the first DirectX 11 game coming in December.
As this the only HD 5870 card I have reviewed and it performs almost as fast as a GTX295 which is NVIDIA’s dual GPU card and faster than the GTX285 which was the previous fastest card on the market, I give the Sapphire card the Editor’s Choice for those wanting a fast video card with support for the future DirectX 11 games and support for Eyefinity, allowing up to 3 monitors to be utilized at the same time on this card. | |
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| | Editor's Choice by OverClockersClub | | | SAPPHIRE HD5870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) | | The HD5870 is not just about increasing gaming performance but the whole package. ATI has a phrase for this launch! "Expand" with Eyefinity the newest multi-monitor technology that creates an immersive environment. "Accelerate" with DX 11 technology. The HD5870 is the first and only DirectX 11 video card to market. Last, but not least, "Dominate" with ATI's Stream computing.
The Sapphire HD5870 is built upon the DirectX11 capable 40nm RV870 core with clock speeds of 850MHz on the GPU core and 1200MHz on the 1GB frame buffer.
I didn't think ATI had it in them to step up the performance on a video card this much in one fell swoop. When you look at the performance you can tell that the level of performance delivered by the GTX285 was just a jumping off point for the performance expectations. After running the first bench with the Sapphire HD5870, the first thought in my head when I saw the result was "Damn, ATI is back."
Having only a few hours to test this card I am sure with a little more diligence the card can reach higher than what I was able to pull from it in fifteen minutes.
There is something to be said about firing the first shot. With the introduction of the HD58XX series ATI has launched new technologies such as Eyefinity, a multi monitor technology for more immersive gaming, not to mention giving you more desktop workspace with a theorectical maximum resolution of up to 8192 x 8192. The HD5870 is the first card that supports DirectX 11.
All things told, this is the fastest single GPU video card you can buy right now, hands down! | |
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| | DAM Innovative and DAM Good Awards by Hardwarecanucks | | | SAPPHIRE HD5870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) | | The Sapphire HD 5870 is simply one of the most powerful cards available on the market.
We may as well continue our love song by saying that the HD 5870’s performance per watt is just deranged, off the wall and plain stunning to behold. It needs less power than a GTX 285 but it blows the Nvidia card away when it comes to pure gaming performance.
As we said, being the first to market with a DX11 card without any DX11 games is a huge risk both for ATI and for early adopters who have no idea how the products they buy will perform in future applications. That being said, based on what we have see, there shouldn’t be any issue at all. These next few months of ATI domination on the DX11 front are critical for them to get a foothold in what could be a very lucrative market if the API the 5000-series is geared towards gains popularity.
To sum this up on a more personal note, I have to pay the HD 5870 the highest compliment I can bestow on any piece of hardware by saying that I wouldn’t hesitate to use it in my own system. | |
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| | Extreme Speed Award by HEXUS | | | SAPPHIRE HD5870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) | | Nonetheless, the performance is unmistakable, and the card's sheer throughput is backed with the inherent goodness of DirectX 11 compliance - which, as we've stated before, brings its own bag of goodies to boot, including mandated hardware tessellation and the useful DirectCompute shader for GPGPU duties. | |
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