Well, that’s according to Tom’s and they are not short on sensationalist headlines. Well, I’ll give them a pass this time because, the new Radeon HD 5970 is, currently, the fastest high-end card on the Market.
Coming in at an inch longer than it’s predecessor, the HD 5870, the HD 5970 is a beast.
And the comparisons…
ATI Radeon HD 5970
- Computing power: 5 TeraFLOPS
- Idle power consumption: 168W
- Load power consumption: 476W
- Dual-GPU
- Core clock: 725MHz
- Memory: 2GB GDDR5
- 2 DVi ports, 1 mini-DisplayPort
- Price: 650 – 700€
My EVGA GTX 275 1792MB
- Computing power: Around 1 TeraFLOP
- Idle power consumption: 143W
- Load power consumption: 343W
- Single-GPU
- Core clock: 633MHz
- Memory: 1792MB GDDR3
- 2 DVI ports, 1 S-Video port
- Price: 250 – 300€
You can go to Tom’s or Anandtech to read comprehensive reviews on this card.