The Radeon HD 5870 is the most desirable hardware product of the moment. For the hardware devotee 2009 has become a terribly good year: combine new Intel Lynnfield processor with a beautiful P55 motherboard, XFX Radeon HD 5870 and Windows 7 and you create all of a sudden an animal of a machine.

As one of youngest ATI-partners,  XFX are rapidly overtaking the others nevertheless. Their Radeon HD 5870 is on first impressions identical to those of the competition, but having said that there is nothing wrong: the card is rapid, strong and complete. XFX have at this moment cheapest 5870 at the market . Now the first full DirectX 11 games festival can really start!

As we know, AMD has prohibited the partners from deviation from the reference design where stock cooling is clock speeds are concerned, so this piece does not have anything truly specific to XFX than the sticker, however, manufacturers can bundle extras and tart up the cosmetic surgery and here XFX satisfy our needs with an all-black slick box, quality packaging, a removable - souvenier outer cover, two 6-pin PCI E - molex adapter, a DVI-DSub converter, installation CD-ROM and guide the free Dirt2 coupons, and XFX's trademark door hanger. The 5870’s performance lived up to our expectations, and as the driver is not even mature yet, we know there will be further untapped fps in it. The card performed very convincingly and easily - freely using the 8x AA in all resolutions, and an important addition is the hugely increased FPS.

(original in Hungarian)

With XFX’s Radeon HD 5870 you can not only take on existing games but next generation DirectX 11 titles as well. The Eyefinity is also nothing short of impressive.

if you’re ready to buy a high-end video card right now, we know of nothing better than the Radeon HD 5870. This card effortlessly delivers today's best games at phenomenal frame rates even at high resolution and with all their visual effects enabled, meaning that if you want the absolute best video card, this is the one to buy. AMD has come up with a GPU that smokes the competition, and XFX has hung what we feel is a very reasonable price tag on their version of it. Bravo to both companies, and color us impressed!

Our today's test samples once again prove that XFX has what it takes to deliver quality products, and with the 5-Star support, you'll be set for a long, long time. No matter where you purchase it, this card is worth every penny..... Add to that the fact that this is a DX11 card which presents a great investment in the future and that it features AMD's Eyefinity, and this is a no brainer - we dub the XFX HD 5850 a Fudzilla Recommended graphics card.

All the Evergreen series cards come with DX 11 support and thus are great future-proof investments. Windows 7 will be out soon, and if you're planning to milk it for all it's worth, then these cards are currently the best, and only option(s).

The XFX HD 5850 is clearly one of the best cards we've had on our tests and the bang-per-buck ratio is excellent.

if you are in the market for a new graphics card the HD 5850 represents an extremely good value for your hard earned money. XFX just adds to that by including two things that are unique among ATI’s board partners: a Double Lifetime warranty and excellent customer support. Value, performance, DX11 capabilities and a lifetime warranty; we really couldn’t ask anything more of a graphics card. As such, the XFX Radeon HD 5850 1GB receives our Dam Good Value Award.

*XFX warranty varies by country.

We never expected the card to beat it's bigger brother, the HD5870 but in the overclocking department it certainly did. Reaching huge overclocks of 910/1300MHz on the core and memory respectively, the card was made for overclocking.

+Good cooler temperatures

+The price is extremely competitive

+Possibility of up to three screens

+Good overclocker

Full Review in Danish

If you are looking for a graphics card of this new generation that supports DirectX 11, I think its worth taking a closer look at XFX 5850 - although it is built entirely by reference design, but the board has good overclocking potential and performs great when you raise the rates a bit. The fan, which also is of reference type keeps the card cool and noise level is nothing to complain about.

full review in Swedish.

We've seen factory overclocked boards in the past that have pushed what a stock cooler is capable of arguably too close to the limit, yet this Black Edition part achieves its performance increases with absolute ease and comfort, to the point where we didn't even feel the need to include charts for these three disciplines in our review as they were simply identical to those seen when testing with a reference clocked card.

Radeon HD 5850 Black Edition is undoubtedly an excellent piece of hardware.
If you have the cash available and want to snag the fastest Radeon HD 5850 we've seen on the market.  There are even cards in stock at the time of writing - Something of a rarity itself in the world of the Radeon HD 5800 series at present.

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(full review in English)

XFX HD 5770 XXX is part of XFX's XXX series, which means that it had increased frequencies right from the factory. Usually, one can ask whether it is worthwhile to buy these Through a special editions, it's usually not any problem to achieve the same levels with the usual cards. But in this case, the price differs so little, plus the XFX card clocked higher than the other cards. It may be that the nucleus of XFX's XXX Card is specially selected, just as they must cope with higher frequencies.

The Radeon 5700 series relies on much of the same technological prowess that makes the 5800-series so profoundly popular right now, however, has a few cut-backs which help keep it very affordable. The Radeon series of GPUs simply offer stellar performance at each of their respective price levels... An area that these cards clearly excel at is the area of power use and heat – at no time in my period of testing them did the cooling fans ever get past a “barely there” audible range. There was never tons of heat blowing out the back as we’ve seen on other cards and the overall power-use is very remarkable.

There are many positive aspects when looking at the 5750 and 5770. First of all they feature full DirectX 11 and DirectCompute 11 support. Next we have some great power consumption figures which drop as low as 16w when idle and then we have the great media features. It is hard to fault a card which supports Blu-Ray acceleration, HDMI 1.3, HDCP, DTS Master Audio and Dolby True HD in addition to DirectX11, especially for under £110 (5750 RRP).

XFX HD 5750 pulls our chart up to 90 points for a graphics card that offers the latest features and that actually proves very stable for a graphics card in this class. In addition, noise levels are far below the scale, and means the graphics card is actually a very sensible solution for HTPC setups. The price also works - very sensible when you consider that it is completely new to the market. Therefore, we assign XFX HD 5750 a SOLID PRODUCT award.

This card does have twin DVI, HDMIand display ports available so no matter what kind of monitor you’re driving with it, you’ll be good to go – it’s also important to point out that it does support 3-way monitor action with ATIs eyefinity technology...

The Radeon 5700 series relies on much of the same technological prowess that makes the 5800-series so profoundly popular right now, however, has a few cut-backs which help keep it very affordable. The Radeon series of GPUs simply offer stellar performance at each of their respective price levels... An area that these cards clearly excel at is the area of power use and heat – at no time in my period of testing them did the cooling fans ever get past a “barely there” audible range. There was never tons of heat blowing out the back as we’ve seen on other cards and the overall power-use is very remarkable

There are many positive aspects when looking at the 5750 and 5770. First of all they feature full DirectX 11 and DirectCompute 11 support. Next we have some great power consumption figures which drop as low as 16w when idle and then we have the great media features. It is hard to fault a card which supports Blu-Ray acceleration, HDMI 1.3, HDCP, DTS Master Audio and Dolby True HD in addition to DirectX11, especially for under £110 (5750 RRP).

This graphics card is perfect for the avid user who doesn’t want to spend a mass amount of money whilst getting great value and performance. You may remember the ATI Radeon HD5750 1GB graphics card review that we did a week ago, this card is using the same GPU but has a bit more power squeezed out of it, and slightly better benchmark results. XFX are a trusted brand in the graphics card world and a card with great performance, amazing value, and the latest technologies coming from them is bound for greatness. That’s why i’m giving this graphics card 5 out of 5 stars.

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(full review in English)

XFX helps make DirectX11 compatibility under £100 a reality... we're pleased to report that the DX11  performance of the HD 5750 stood up well... We really liked the smaller dimensions of the card, it performs admirably.

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