ATI Radeon™ 5000 Series Reviews 

“Through all of this, Eyefinity, DX11, DirectCompute 11, OpenCL, the Radeon HD 5870 remains true to the focus of just being a desirable gaming video card. One of the most impressive "features" is the fact that it doubles performance, yet remains within the same power envelope as the previous generation. This is impressive. The fact that you can get all of this for around $379 makes it a really good value with a tremendous price/performance ratio compared to the previous generation.”

• HARDOCP

“The Radeon HD 5870 is by far the fastest single GPU graphics card that we have ever benchmarked and it is the real deal."

• LEGIT REVIEWS

“The Radeon HD 5870 we've evaluated here offered excellent performance that decimated any other singe GPU with top notch image quality. It also has the most extensive feature set of any other GPU, with support for ATI Eyefinity, an enhanced UVD 2 engine, and support for DirectX 11.”

• HOT HARDWARE

“The new AMD Radeon HD 5870 is the fastest single-GPU graphics card you can purchase today and will likely remain that way through at least the end of the year.”

• PC PERSPECTIVE

“Without question, ATI once again wears the single-GPU performance crown, its Radeon HD 5870 effectively blending solid performance in today’s titles with the experience-oriented extras that’ll allow developers to create tomorrow’s games.”

• TOMS HARDWARE GUIDE

“We think the ATI Radeon HD 5850 is going to be a wildly popular video card among hardware and gaming enthusiasts. It seems there might be room for hardware enthusiasts to tweak performance out of this video card to extreme levels. The Radeon HD 5850 is priced to sell; at $259 it packs the most punch in its class with no close contenders. It beats higher priced video cards that used to dominate the playing field.”

• HARDOCP

“Having thoroughly tested the Radeon HD 5850, it is abundantly clear what AMD's goals were with this product--to introduce a more affordable and more economical to produce variant of the Radeon HD 5870, with an identical feature set, at a price point that severely undercuts rival NVIDIA's current flagship single-GPU based card, the GeForce GTX 285.”

• HOT HARDWARE

“The ATI Radeon HD 5850 that we highlighted here today might be smaller and cost less than the Radeon HD 5870, but that doesn't mean that it isn't still a great gaming graphics card. The 1440 stream processors operating at a core clock frequency of 725MHz are still more than enough horse power to play all the latest game titles. The Radeon HD 5850 will be the DirectX 11 card to have for overclockers looking for the biggest bang for the buck. “

• LEGIT REVIEWS

“For a $259 graphics card, the Radeon HD 5850 is a hell of a performer. In our series of gaming tests the Evergreen GPUs are proving to be highly competitive and the HD 5850 is no exception. “

• PC PERSPECTIVE

“We’re perfectly comfortable calling the Radeon HD 5850 a solid buy for the reasons a gamer would buy a new graphics card today."

• TOMS HARDWARE GUIDE

“The Radeon HD 5850 manages to outshine the fastest single-GPU GeForce card overall while costing less, drawing less power, and producing less noise. We wouldn't be surprised to see Nvidia cut prices in the near future, but in any case, the 5850 is hands-down the second-fastest single-GPU graphics card on the market.”

• THE TECH REPORT