Is this the ATI Radeon HD 5670?

Robert Hallock 2 Dec, 2009 at 5:02pm ET Article published in Tech

A poster at hardforum.com revealed today what he alleges to be the as yet unreleased Radeon HD 5670.

Long known only by its codename, Redwood, the budget part is another member of AMD’s 40nm/DirectX 11 Evergreen family. Rumored specifications for the card include:

775MHz core
1000MHz VRAM
1GB GDDR5 memory
128-bit memory bus
64GBps bandwidth
20 texture units
400 shaders
16 ROPs

We put the specs in a table with the 5770, 5850 and 5870 for comparison:

	Radeon HD 5670	Radeon HD 5770	Radeon HD 5850	Radeon HD 5870
Core clock	775MHz	850MHz	725MHz	850MHz
Mem. clock	1000MHz	1200MHz	1000MHz	1200MHz
Memory	1GB	1GB	1GB	1GB
Bus width	128-bit	128-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Mem. Bandwidth	64GBps	96GBps	128GBps	154GBps
Texture Units	20	40	72	80
Shaders	400	800	1440	1600
ROPs	16	16	32	32

In all, the alleged specs are good enough to put the card about 20-23% ahead of the Radeon HD 4670 which proceeded it. Expect to see the card in 1Q10 for less than $100.

DVI, HDMI and VGA. No DisplayPort.

Radeon HD 5670

Comments

2 Dec 2009 ~ 5:13pm Cliff_Forster Its short, no external power connector required, should make a fantastic card for HTPC
2 Dec 2009 ~ 5:19pm shwaip I'd say far overkill for a htpc.
2 Dec 2009 ~ 5:22pm Cliff_Forster

shwaip wrote:

I'd say far overkill for a htpc.

You might not need it because on board solutions are fine for HD video, at least the ones AMD and NVIDIA produce, but if you wanted to toss in a little gaming that card will get you there on most titles, maybe with some compromise, and still run cool enough efficient enough. I imagine it wont be long before one of the OEM partners fits a passive cooler on it, then it will be even better.
2 Dec 2009 ~ 5:34pm Butters Chart data for Radeon 5870 shaders looks to be missing a few 0's.

I'd throw it on as a gaming HTPC. Would also be good upgrade for those dell/hp PC's with limited power/space.
2 Dec 2009 ~ 5:40pm Thrax Not any more.
5 Jan 2010 ~ 2:10pm Joe Looks great but I hope they'll use those more compact coolers like sapphire has.
14 Jan 2010 ~ 5:58am rash nice low budget card, but still no 3d ?
14 Jan 2010 ~ 8:02am mas0n