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Today the new ATI Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 are being unveiled, providing gamers with the first sub $200 US next generation graphics cards from AMD. These graphics cards will deliver the latest features, such as DirectX 11 support, to the masses, while they should pack a big enough punch to take on the very latest games... ATI, graphics business unit of AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), unleashed its next-generation flagship product code-named Cypress on September 23rd. Now known as the Radeon HD 5870, this new graphics card quickly became the world’s most powerful single-GPU solution, as it crushed the GeForce GTX 285. More over, at $380 US the Radeon HD 5870 is also very competitively priced, causing even more problems for Nvidia.  Unfortunately, although AMD appears to have a real winner on its hands, the company seems unable to capitalize on their rare win. For now at least, AMD has Nvidia on the back foot, with no real answer to the power or value of the Radeon HD 5870. Therefore you would expect that the Radeon HD 5870 graphics cards are selling like hot cakes, and well, they are. The problem is, there are not enough cakes, or Radeon HD 5870 graphics cards in this case, to go around and almost all stores are out of stock. It seems gamers are lining up to buy AMD’s $380 US flagship product and they are being denied access. The situation is even worse when discussing the Radeon HD 5850, which was released just a week later. On the 30th of September AMD continued their assault, sealing the deal with the Radeon HD 5850, which was also faster than the GeForce GTX 285 while priced at just $260 US, making it considerably cheaper. In terms of value the Radeon HD 5850 is even better than the Radeon HD 5870, and currently nothing can compete with it in the sub $300 market. However, like its bigger brother, the Radeon HD 5850 is missing in action, and this has been the case since shortly after its release. Whatever stock retailers received for the launch quickly sold out, and that still appears to be the case, with all major retailers still displaying no stock. Despite the lack of new Radeon HD 5000 series graphics cards, AMD is pressing forward, and today they are releasing the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 graphics cards. The Radeon HD 5770 is priced at $160 US, while the 5750 will be priced between $110 - $130, depending on the memory capacity. In terms of performance we expect that the Radeon HD 5770 will perform much like the Radeon HD 4870, and given the price tag it would simply be picking up where this graphics card left off. This also means for now the Nvidia competition will come from the GeForce GTX 260, which does cost a little more but should also deliver a little more performance... |
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