Sapphire HD5570

Sapphire HD5570 is equipped with 1GB of DDR3 memory, a 128-bit memory interface, 400 shader core and 16 ROPS. With these specifications, the HD5570 seems to be quite able to run current games at least at lower resolutions. Also, using the ATI flow, this board should be able to manage a smooth HD playback and photo editing and video features.

One of the most interesting features of the HD5570 is that even with all the power of technology built into the video board, the power consumption is low profile and it is only 45W. This would make from HD5570 a popular video board on the HTCP market, offering enough performance, thus being a great choice for budget players.

HD5570 comes with just a few accessories, CD with drivers, the books with instructions and two small console converters. Sapphire HD5570 comes with a low-profile design and uses a single slot active for cooling through a fan with automatic speed control. Using an active cooling on a GPU can reduce the temperatures a lot more than for a passive cooling and can increase the potential of overclocking. With a very low power requirement (10W idle) and 45 W in load, the video board does not need additional power other than that of PCI-E and Sapphire recommendation on the power supply is 400W. HD5570 is equipped with PCI-E 2.1 support and is fully compatible with PCI-E x16 slots. Another element which adds to the value of graphics cards in this segment is the use of ATI Hybrid CrossFireX. HD5570 is equipped with three display ports and is ideal for use in the HTPC configuration. DL-DVI-I port is designed to provide high quality digital video with all supported resolutions up to 2560 x 1600. Display Port supports Eyefinity and can run up to three monitors at resolutions of 5670 x 1200, when using a single monitor the maximum resolution is of 2560x1600. To ensure compatibility with all HTPC Sapphire has included two Small profile converters that will allow the video board to be used in low-profile case.

Technical specifications:
-Chipset: Radeon HD5570 PCIe series
-Pixel fillrate: 10.4GP / s
-Texture fillrate: 26GT / s
-Stream Processors: 400
-Bandwidth: 28.8GB / s
-Manufacturing Process: 40nm
-Memory Amount: 1GB
-Memory type: DDR3
-GPU frequency: 650Mhz
-Memory Frequency: 1800MHz
-Interface: 128bit
-Max Resolution: 2650 × 1600 (Dual Link)
-Interface Speed: 16x PCIe 2.1

Features: Display Port x 1, DVI x 1, VGA x 1, HDCP
For an entry-level video board, HD5570 is making an exceptional job. The Low-profile design of these video cards will be liked by many HTPC users, who are looking for small components which are consuming less and are able to play HD content. On the other hand the potential of overclocking is not disappointing. The overclock potential is due to the fact that the GPU is built on 40nm technology. All this makes this video board to increase in value, and if you do not have a solution to replace the integrated video card, the HD5570 is the best.

Likes:
-The performance
-Low profile
-low-price
-very high overclock potential
-low power consumption
-DX11

Dislikes:
-few accessories
-A little noisy

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