ATI Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 steal away reviewers' hearts

The ATI onslaught of 40nm DirectX 11 parts continues today with two even cheaper variants coming from its Evergreen family of chips. Based on the Juniper core, the HD 5770 and 5750 represent ATI's mainstream value proposition, with compute performance of more than 1 TFLOPS and pricing between $109 and $159. There's a significant dropoff in specs from the world-conquering HD 5870 and similarly potent HD 5850, but reviewers found the latest cards were still up to the task, with the 5770's performance said to be "just shy" of the very recent top dog for ATI, the HD 4890. With low power consumption, competitive pricing and added features like Eyefinity and 7.1 HD audio, the new cards might not push performance boundaries, but they also leave you with little reason to look elsewhere for your next GPU purchase. Hit up the reviews below for more detailed impressions.

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[(Unverified) Posted Nov 6th 2009 7:50PM]

WTF, get out of town!
Voodoo for life mutherPucker!
(LOL!)

[Phreakazoid Posted Oct 13th 2009 8:17AM]

Change your shirt! The mushrooms must be ready by now!

[raaaaaa Posted Oct 13th 2009 8:21AM]

how do these cards handle audio with HDMI?

[thenutty1 Posted Oct 13th 2009 10:04AM]

Should just pass through presuming you have latest drivers installed.

[Dalhectar Posted Oct 13th 2009 11:06AM]

The Radeon 5xxx cards add bitstream support for TrueHD and DTS-MA. The ATi 4xxx and 5xxx both support 7.1 LPCM.

But for HTPC purposes, the best bet it to wait for a Radeon 56xx version in 2010 that's passively cooled. That double sized cooler on the 5750 doesn't look silent at all.

[Crono141 Posted Oct 14th 2009 10:50PM]

I've had nothing but trouble with my HDMI audio passthrough on my 4850. Never shows up as supporting more than stereo channels, unless its dolby digital, which gets passed through just fine.

I've been waiting for it seems like years for a software driver to encode EVERYTHING into AC3 on the fly. Including video games. So far, FFDshow and AC3 filter only work with specific audio formats, and not audio produced by games like Guild Wars or any non Dolby Digital source.

[ppsaoda Posted Oct 13th 2009 9:25AM]

Thes cards erected me, ATI had really move forward.

[krische Posted Oct 13th 2009 9:53AM]

I can only find the 5750 for $129 on newegg. Where did engadget get the $109 from?

[Dalhectar Posted Oct 13th 2009 11:11AM]

Newegg price gouging... aka selling new parts above MSRP. Just look at what they do to those Intel SSDs.

[joefresco Posted Oct 13th 2009 11:38AM]

Zipzoomfly's pricing is even higher... $149 and $184 for XFX 5750/5770 parts, respectively

[Dummy00001 Posted Oct 13th 2009 4:36PM]

I was checking price trends for the 5800 cards in Europe recently. Pretty much all cards gained 20€ in price and availability is scarce at best.

It seems demand pushes the prices up. Or ATI doesn't ship sufficient number of cards. Or combination of both.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 13th 2009 6:43PM]

It's the HD 5750 512MB card that's $109... the 1GB version is indeed $129.

[Dshark Posted Oct 13th 2009 11:36AM]

Damn. I just bought a G-Card. :-\

[GN1 Posted Oct 13th 2009 11:47AM]

drool..

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 13th 2009 4:07PM]

I feel your pain, man. He/she should show up soon. Hang in there.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 13th 2009 4:42PM]

the most important question: can run crysis?????? =P

[Dillon Posted Nov 23rd 2009 1:09AM]

Makes my 4850 look like a Rage Pro... Thank god I just bought a 5870!