Sapphire HD 5770 Review - PAGE 1

Today we will be looking at the Sapphire HD 5770. Selling for $175 USD (or $160 USD without the included Dirt 2 game), the HD 5770 is in an enviable position of being a next-gen, sub $200 USD video card, with Nvidia rumored to still be at
least a month away away from launching the latest they have been working on.

Like the HD 4770 before it, the HD 5770 only has a 128-bit memory interface, but is not hampered too much by this, thanks to the GDDR5 memory under the hood helping things move along. As our prior experiences with the HD 5770 have shown, it is certainly able to keep up with even the more recent demanding titles.

A 40nm design, the HD 5000 series brought in a number of attractive features to improve the Radeon feature-set. Probably the two most noteworthy for most are Eyefinity and DirectX 11 support. Eyefinity allows for up to three displays to be used with each HD 5000 series cards (before, two was the maximum per each), and it also allows for greater control over how these displays are used. If you like -- and have enough displays at your disposal -- you can connect up to 12 displays if you had four HD 5770's, either creating a meta-display, or using them as independent displays.

Let's take a closer look at the Sapphire HD 5770.