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Today AMD is launching yet another new DirectX 11 graphics card. This time they are targeting the $80 US price range with the Radeon HD 5570. Could the Radeon HD 5570 be the next 4770, we hope so, as the last few Radeon HD 5000 launches have been quite lackluster... AMD is doing exceptionally well with its ATI graphics division, releasing seven new DirectX 11 products in just 4 months, with no direct competition to speak of. Still, AMD is pressing forward and today marks the release of their most affordable DX11 gaming graphics card yet, the Radeon HD 5570. This means it is now possible to purchase a new Radeon HD 5000 series graphics card for anywhere between $60 - $650 US.  The Radeon HD 5570 features an MSRP of $80 US and that price range places it in direct competition with GeForce GT 240 and GeForce 9600 GT graphics cards, as well as AMD’s own Radeon HD 4670. Therefore in terms of pricing, the Radeon HD 5570 will be stepping in to replace the Radeon HD 4670. This is interesting as the technical specifications of the new Radeon HD 5570 and the 18 month old Radeon HD 4670 are very similar. If anything it could be said that the Radeon HD 5570 is just a more modern version of the Radeon HD 4670 with its 40nm design and DirectX 11 support. Both feature similar core configurations and share the same memory bandwidth of 28.8GB/s when loaded with GDDR3 memory using a 128-bit wide memory bus. Therefore we expect that the Radeon HD 5570 will perform very much like the Radeon HD 4670 and this could be somewhat of a concern. After all, the Radeon HD 4670 is starting to show its age, and at $70 - $80 US, it is slower than the Nvidia competition. |
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