Is this the Radeon HD 5750?

Robert Hallock 2 Oct, 2009 at 11:40am ET Article published in Tech

Slowly but surely, AMD is letting its lesser Radeon 5000 cards trickle into the public space. Just three days after the debut of the 5850, we are seeing what may be the first signs that the Radeon HD 5750 is going to retail.

According to the report, the card uses an unknown quantity of 4.6GHz GDDR5 connected to a 128-bit bus for 76.3GBps of bandwidth. The card is also armed with a 700MHz core clock and 1120 stream processors. We’ve put those stats in a table with the 4870, 5850 and 5870 for comparison.

If these numbers are true, then the 5750 is already the victim of an identity crisis. These figures make for a GPU that’s altogether slower than the Radeon HD 4870, a card that is priced similarly to the expected MSRP ($180) of the 5750. This could make the 5750 a tough sell for users looking to upgrade with little concern for DirectX 11 support. There are more of those people than you might imagine.

In the end, we’ll have to wait for an official launch for all the numbers to come out proper, but we’re already concerned that it may not come up roses for the boys in red.

Comments

1. 
   2 Oct 2009 ~ 11:46am Jingalls You mention the 4890 in the article, and use the price of the 4890 while the chart reads 4870 and has a mish-mash of specs from the two cards.
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   2 Oct 2009 ~ 11:48am lordbean Either way, it's still impressive. 5750 is obviously going to be a very entry-level card, and it's just as fast as the 4000 series high end.
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   2 Oct 2009 ~ 11:51am Thrax

   Jingalls wrote:

   You mention the 4890 in the article, and use the price of the 4890 while the chart reads 4870 and has a mish-mash of specs from the two cards.

   
   Thank you for noting the error. It has been corrected.
4. 
   2 Oct 2009 ~ 12:03pm Colgere It still lists the 4890 in the sentence prior to the table.
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   2 Oct 2009 ~ 12:38pm Cliff_Forster In graphics its always hard to position products at the dawn of a new product launch. The available 47XX and 48XX cards still represent a solid product for gamers to consider, until they are off the shelf its hard to position your newer product against your older product. Also there is this trick to how you price everything so you don't position your lower end product in a way that it cannibalizes your high end products that typically carry a better margin.
   
   The way I see it, with a single six pin PCIE connector the 5750 is really positioned to be a DX11 upgrade for gamers that want the new technology but have a limited power supply they would rather not fuss with. Got that old Dell box with the 450 watt PSU, this is your card.
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   2 Oct 2009 ~ 12:39pm Thrax All set. Thank you.
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   2 Oct 2009 ~ 1:08pm BuddyJ Hey, this looks like a REAL card, unlike some we've seen in recent days.