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The Sapphire HD5670 is competitively marketed right now, with prices in the UK of around £85 inc vat. For such a small amount of money you get a card which runs significantly cooler than the reference design and is barely audible under the majority of situations.
While the 1GB GTS 250 generally outperforms the Sapphire HD5670 they are still around £10-£20 more and there is no DX11 support. We also recorded that the HD5670 was considerably more efficient under load which means less power consumption, lower temperatures and cooler running conditions.
While overclocking graphics solutions is very much hit and miss … meaning cards from the same batch will give varying results, our incredible findings with the review sample would make me feel that Sapphire could have applied a moderate overclock to make the deal even sweeter for a prospective customer. The headroom on both core and memory was as high as we have seen in our testing. With these massive overclocks the 5670 was more than a match for the GTS250 but the end user needs to have some experience with software overclocking which might omit a large portion of the audience.
If you are in the market for a low cost, high performing card with DX11 capabilities that doesn't suck a lot of power and runs ‘cool n quiet' then the Sapphire HD5670 is certainly a fine choice. Highly recommended.
KitGuru says: Once again Sapphire put the reference solution to shame.
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these really are great cards, especially when considering the modest asking price.
The temperatures are much lower than what I had expected, but then again its arctic cooling who always make good coolers.
I have one of these in a system and I wanted to know is it worth buying another for crossfire. anyone know if its worth the hassle?
Nice review – seems a good price. I think they dropped recently by £10 too.
The overclocking is insane, they should have overclocked the card, even 10% with that headroom it would have been safe.
I shopped around and found one for £85 on OCUK, which is brill. Just bought it. thanks KG for thorough review testing. They seem low power which is nice as I dont always game and like to know they idle without taking a lot of power.
HD5670 is great series but I think the 5770 is better value as its much more powerful.
I ordered one of these a few days ago for my media center as I might like to play the odd game on the tv rather than in my bedroom on a monitor. Glad to know I didn’t buy a turkey !
Great review thnks, k, bye
Like the review style, leep up the goodwork
How much is this card in Australia? cant find it anywhere
For once a review not trying its absolute best to downplay this great card… this great lil thing suits anyone with a not so large screen and does some gaming every now and then. This maxes out most, if not all (as seen from the review), games of the present and possibly will do so next year or maybe the year after that at modest resolutions. And is just so quiet and efficient!
Great product and an excellent review!!!
Just bought one of these to run AVP (I know, not the best game) with Directx 11. It will run the game at full tilt with settings maxed out. Highly recommend the card if your looking for a cheapish one to last a couple of years. Well done ATI.
Oh this replaced my old nvidia 8400 gs lol.