The Radeon HD 5770 is AMD’s only GPU that hasn’t been recently updated; it’s still based on AMD’s first DX11 architecture.
The XFX card fully supports AMD’s Eyefinity feature, offering four total video attachments: a pair of dual-link DVI ports, one DisplayPort connector, and an HDMI port. Three can be active simultaneously, so you can have full triple-monitor support with a single card. The card we tested is the standard dual-slot design. XFX also offers a single-slot version of the card, suitable for tight cases, but that model is priced above $150.
This card is 8.5 inches long, so will fit in most PC cases, and takes just a single 6-pin power connector. You’ll want a 450W PSU. As with all recent-generation AMD GPUs, it fully supports HDMI multichannel-audio pass-through. One of the real strong suits of XFX cards is the robust, limited lifetime warranty if you register the card. This warranty can even be passed on to a single buyer if you resell the card.
Terrific warranty; triple-monitor support with just one card.
Gaming performance is so-so; relatively high power consumption at idle.
| XFX Radeon HD 5770 | |
|---|---|
| Shader Units* | 800 |
| Texture Units | 36 |
| ROPs | 16 |
| Power Connectors | 1 x 6-pin |
| Core Clock | 850MHz |
| Shader Clock | NA |
| GDDR5 Memory Clock | 1.2GHz |
| GDDR5 Frame Buffer | 1GB |
| Memory Interface | 128-bit |
| XFX Radeon HD 5770 | |
|---|---|
| 3DMark 2011 | 2,688 |
| 3DMark Vantage | 11,231 |
| Unigine Heaven 2.1 (fps) | 11 |
| Crysis (fps) | 17 |
| Battle Forge (fps) | 24 |
| Far Cry 2 (fps) | 47 |
| F1 2010 (fps) | 37 |
| HAWX 2 (fps) | 47 |
| Metro 2033 (fps) | 8 |
| STALKER: CoP (fps) | 20 |
| Just Cause 2 Concrete Jungle (fps) | 23 |
| Aliens vs. Predator (fps) | 16 |
| Power @ idle (W) | 150 |
| Power @ full throttle (W) | 224 |
Our test bed is a 3.33GHz Core i7-975 Extreme Edition in an Asus P6X58D Premium motherboard with 6GB of DDR3/1333 and an 850TX Corsair PSU. The OS is 64-bit Windows Ultimate. All games are run at 1920x1200 with 4x AA.
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