ATI Radeon HD 5870 Review

Introduction

The ATI RADEON HD 5870 review shows to be a great improvement from the ATI Radeon HD 4890 review. The older video card had a big battle with Nvidia, but it came out pretty even. This time ATI has settled the score with a powerful computer video card and excellent pricing. Nvidia is starting to look like Intel with their absorbent prices.

This series of computer video cards have been built to work with Windows 7 that will be releasing soon. The improvements depend just as much on the operating system as they do on the technology on the computer video card. You can only go as far as the things you are working with. The ATI Radeon HD 5870 review shows the levels of the technologies that I will list below you will notice that everything has been doubled from the technology on the ATI Radeon HD 4890 review. It is there simple way of making it better since newer computers can handle the power they are able to emit.

Overview

My video card reviews show that like all super powerful computer video cards these days the ATI Radeon HD 5870 review shows that this computer video card is just as long or more. You will love the way it looks and how cool it is to show off through a clear computer case window. I have spent a lot of time modding computer cases to make that effect perfect. Of course, cable management is another big part to make this effect not seem like a big mess!

Energy consumption for this ati video card is a eco-friendly person's dream. Dropping from 90 watts to 27 watts is ridiculous for the ATI Radeon HD 5870 review. It would regularly need that energy to effectively perform at high levels, but necessity is the mother of invention! This helps out the production of heat but the cards aren't made very well to get the heat out correctly. It gets out but some of it spills into the computer case and forces the case fans to pull it out the back. That wouldn't be an issue if the computer video card cover was completely sealed.

DirectX 11 Technology

We all know what DirectX is and this is the latest and greatest one. The ATI Radeon HD 5870 review shows that it has some new things within it that will make your gaming experience reach new heights. I will explain them below in detail so that you can get a better understanding of what they entail.

DirectX has made a technology called Tessellation, which you might know from Adobe Photoshop if you are a user of that computer software. It provides a larger amount of polygons on the computer monitor. Having more polygons in your computer graphics helps you get a smoother looking and feeling game. The characters will look more real and the environment will be much crisper.

The new technology Shader Model 5.0 is DirectX's new type of Application Programming Interface (API). This new API is to help it be better utilized with multi-threaded computer processors. Now they can allocate that a certain core do a certain job for the computer video card. By splitting up the work this way the computer video card and computer cpu are not overwhelmed with data that they do now thave organized.

DirectX has a lot of updates that they like to establish and DirectCompute is the system that controls them. It is funny that my video transcoding experience has let me to know a lot about this feature and the graphic modeling overlapping that they have made within this feature. It has been around for a while, but apparently they never thought to implement its great effects into its computer software.

DirectX is not able to claim much higher compression levels than DirectX 10. They now have 6:1 and 3:1 compression that helps you get all those great graphics into a smaller space. It has its obvious problems with space and size, but the other technologies help it out with this. Either way it is great and makes your games look incredible!

Conclusion

Overrall the ATI RADEON HD 5870 shows that is a great computer video card. The real test that is competes well with Nvidia with the implimentation of Windows 7 and DirectX 11. It will fulfill that test as well. Also with it almost being 30% cheaper than its competition at Nvidia, they must bring down their prices to compete.