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Manufacturer: AMD
Price: $ 320 US
Author: Steve
Date: 06/15/2010

[ Test: Test System Specs & 3Dmark Vantage ]

Test System Specs
Hardware
- Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition (Overclocked @ 3.70GHz)

- x3 2GB G.Skill DDR3 PC3-12800 (CAS 9-9-9-24)

- Seagate 500GB 7200-RPM (Serial ATA300)

- Radeon HD 5870 (1GB)
- Radeon HD 5850 (1GB)
- Radeon HD 5770 (1GB) Crossfire
- Radeon HD 5770 (1GB)
- Radeon HD 4890 (1GB)
- GeForce GTX 480 (1536MB)
- GeForce GTX 470 (1280MB)
- GeForce GTX 285 (1GB)

- Asus P6T Deluxe (Intel X58)

Software
- Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit)
- Nvidia Forceware 257.15
- ATI Catalyst 10.5

The Radeon HD 5770 Crossfire setup was 82% faster than a single Radeon HD 5770 graphics card at 1920x1200 with a score of 10034pts. Although this meant that the Radeon HD 5770 Crossfire cards were 14% slower than the Radeon HD 5870, it also meant that they were 5% faster than the Radeon HD 5850, and 13% faster than the GeForce GTX 470.

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Richie



Posted on: 06/15/2010 08:33 AM
I purchased a second 5770 based on the results of your first article and I have never looked back. AMD has been working well to get profiles updated for new games as well which is great to see. I can also confirm that the performance in Battlefield 2 BC is very good.

Davo



Posted on: 06/15/2010 11:34 AM
I'm in love with my 5770 setup and have been ever since I got it :) I really thought by now there would be something that offered slightly better value to gamers. I am glad to see there isn't just yet!

a dude



Posted on: 06/15/2010 10:45 PM
I decided on a 5770 setup when I found a set of Asus Cucore's for under $280 after rebate with free shipping. If you have a crossfire capable motherboard, this is simply the most cost effective way to jump on the DX11 bandwagon. Having been a Nvidia fan for years, I feel I made the right decision. ATI image quality is far superior from what I've seen so far. Very very happy I am. My only regret is waiting and hoping Nvidia would bring something mindblowing to the table and that didn't happen this time. Nice article.

kenny



Posted on: 06/15/2010 11:05 PM
Go the 5770 CF!!! Great article thanks.

RedSky0



Posted on: 06/16/2010 11:52 AM
Now all they need to do is release a 5770X2, not that they will. Somebody should have told me that Crossfire was actually going to be good value a couple of years ago ...

Bowser



Posted on: 06/16/2010 12:01 PM
yeah well crossfire still scales like sh*t compared to sli but dual 5770's is the way to go. imagine if they scaled like a pair of gtx 470 cards though. that would be insane!

Morgan



Posted on: 06/22/2010 11:19 PM
Would the performance values be similar for a P55 board, or would the 8X 8x, limit performance.

ProX



Posted on: 06/22/2010 11:26 PM
@Morgan - No it would be the same on a P55 board.

Nice article.

Sharpy



Posted on: 06/24/2010 09:43 AM
wow I did not know Crossfire worked that well now. this is very interesting. nice work

sirfanxalot



Posted on: 07/23/2010 05:02 AM
I am buying a new PC and was planning on going the P55 LGA1156 route with an Intel core i5-750 CPU and planning on getting the ATI Radeon HD5770 1GB (Crossfire) setup, but then I ran into a little bit of a problem: most P55 motherboards do have 2x PCIex16 slots, but the affordable ones (the reason I'm not buying an LGA 1366 + core i7-920 or such) all have the PCIex16 lanes shared, so for a Crossfire setup the bandwidth gets lowered to 2xPCIe@x8. Is it going to be worth my while to do this? How much is it going to hurt performance? (As I understand it, PCIe2 delivers twice the bandwidth of PCIe, and obviously PCIex16 delivers twice the bandwidth that PCIex8 does. So it makes no sense to me how it doesn't make a difference). Please help!?

ProX



Posted on: 07/26/2010 01:07 AM
@ sirfanxalot - Dual PCIe 2.0 x8 bandwidth is fine for today's graphics cards, you will not notice any performance loss.

GAx



Posted on: 09/16/2010 07:50 PM
I prefer 470

Anon



Posted on: 09/30/2010 08:12 AM
AWESOME follow up on the first article. First article was one of the MAJOR reason I set up my 5770 X2 in the first place. Was recently worried that through drivers, or maturing of the 5870/5850 that my system was no longer relevent. Well, you've proved me totally wrong and once again am confident in my build.

THANKS! Legion.
(Deal is even sweeter as I swung X2 for 200$ used. )

ZoTHoS



Posted on: 01/20/2011 08:42 PM
Nice i already have one XFX HD5770 XXX card and another one would be nice and now after reviewing this article it makes me want another 5770 really bad!! I really need to upgrade my PSU first as i am in dire need of one already because now i just saw this review and with the 5770 taking up over a little half of my PSU when on load... I only have an Ultra X-Finity 500w dual 12v rails S.L.I. psu and with the 5770 taking up 254 watts on load i just think dang man i really need a new psu i play games at 980/1380 35c on load its nice but when i go over 1000/1400 i start seeing restarts/bsod oh and why my temp is so low is because its about 15f-25f outside and my pc is in the window with the side panel off!! :-) cant wait to upgrade the psu and get another HD5770 for CF!!!

Heres 2 pics of me playing NFS Shift with my XFX HD5770 XXX card very nice low temps and Great FPS!!!

http://img26.imageshack.us/i/shift20101227151254550.jpg/

http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/2659/shift20101227151338322.jpg