Gigabyte HD 5670 OC Review - PAGE 1

The HD 5000 series is almost entirely revealed now, as we are just about to enter the middle of February, 2010. Like with pretty much all introductions of new generations of GPUs, ATI started the HD 5000 series off with entries at the high-end, then worked their way steadily down the performance ladder. Launched about a month ago, the HD 5670 is the mid-range piece of ATI's current arsenal. Together with the HD 5750, the HD 5670 is aimed at those looking for the trade-off between price and performance. While you can't  expect that'll a mid-range card will be able to max out every game at a high resolution, you can expect that you'll at least be able to do some high quality gaming with this video card that sells for around the $100 USD mark.

Gigabyte has given us our second HD 5670 to take a look at. Unfortunately, are last engineering sample HD 5670 from ATI did not have CrossFire teeth on it, unlike Gigabyte's model, so we won't be able to run two of these cards at the same time, to give you some CrossFire numbers. Nonetheless we'll still have an interesting time today seeing what Gigabyte has done with this non-reference design.  

Also, keep in mind for the HD 5670 two models are available: 1 GB version, and a 512MB version. Pricing for the these two models have been fairly steady around $100 and $115 USD respectively.

As we discovered last review, strong competition around the $100 price-point continues to come from higher-end cards of the last generation --- but wait, maybe we are getting ahead of ourselves. Let's take a closer look at the card before we go into the numbers.