HIS Radeon HD 5750 ICEQ+ review

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HIS Radeon HD 5750 ICEQ+

Jumping on the 5700 series bandwagon, HIS released a Radeon HD 5770 ICEQ+ model. The card itself is fairly standard including reference clocks and comes with all the default features like:

  • 1GB GDDR5 memory (128-bit)
  • ATI Eyefinity technology with support for up to six displays
  • ATI Stream technology
  • Designed for DirectCompute 5.0 and OpenCL
  • Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
  • Compliant with DirectX 11 and earlier revisions
  • Supports OpenGL 3.1
  • ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
  • ATI Avivo HD video and display technology
  • Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay technology
  • DL-DVI, DL-DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI
  • PCI Express® 2.0 support

We'll address the majority of features in our article. But first let's focus on the sheer technical specifications. Transistor count for example. The number of transistors always works as an indicator of how powerful a product will be. The new Radeon HD 5700 GPUs have 1040 million transistors. Correct, that is 1+ billion transistors tucked away in a small chip. The fabrication node just like the 5800 series is 40nm for this product.

Included in the package you'll find:

  • HIS Radeon HD 5750 ICEQ+
  • Manual & Driver CD
  • Download coupon for DiRT2 (full game)
  • Crossfire bridge
  • 6-pin power converter
  • SUB-D to DVI dongle

HIS Radeon HD 5750 ICEQ+

Now considering that the card comes with anICEQ cooler (better cooling, more silent) and DiRT2  we can say that for a very mainstream product, the bundle is great. The HIS Radeon HD 5750 ICEQ+ is priced in the 129~149 USD bracket

Performance wise the card positions itself against the Radeon HD 4850. The Radeon HD 4850 which we all know and love for its performance had 956 million transistors embedded onto that die. The new Radeon HD 5700 GPUs have 1040 million transistors. Correct, that is 1+ billion transistors tucked away in a small chip. The fabrication node just like the 5800 series is 40nm for this product.

The HIS Radeon 5750 will be clocked reference at 700 MHz on the Core and Shader domain and 1150 MHz on the memory (4600 MHz), with the 5750 having 720 Shader processors. Though that looks a little pale in comparison to the 5800 series, remember .. these are mid-range products at really affordable prices. The number of ROP units are rocking steady at 16 and sure --  texture units remain at 40 for the 5770 and 36 for the 5750.

  Radeon HD 4870 Radeon HD 5750 Radeon HD 5770 Radeon HD 5870
Process 55nm 40nm 40nm 40nm
Transistors 956M 1.04B 1.04B 2.15B
Die Size 263 mm² TBA TBA 334 mm²
Core Clock 750 MHz 700 MHz 850 MHz 850 MHz
Shader Processors 800 720 800 1600
Compute Performance 1.2 TFLOPs 1.008 TFLOPs 1.36 TFLOPs 2.72 TFLOPs
Texture Units 40 36 40 80
Texture Fillrate 30.0 GTexels/s 25.2 GTexels/s 34 GTexels/s 68.0 GTexels/s
ROPs 16 16 16 32
Pixel Fillrate 12.0 GPixels/s 11.2 GPixels/s 13.6 GPixels/s 27.2 GPixels/s
Z/Stencil 48.0 GSamples/s 44.8 GSamples/s 54.4 GSamples/s 108.8 GSamples/s
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5 GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Clock 900 MHz 1150 MHz 1200 1200 MHz
Memory Data Rate 3.6 Gbps 4.6 Gbps 4.8 Gbps 4.8 Gbps
Memory Bandwidth 115.2 GB/s 73.6 GB/s 76.8 GB/s 153.6GB/s
Maximum Board Power (TDP) 160W 86W 108W 188W
Idle Board Power 90W 16W 18 27W

These numbers are really good, and for the money this is going to make an excellent mid-range product series. We have not discussed it just yet, but memory; ATI will stick to DDR5 for both products. On the 5700 they'll crank it down a notch though we have 128-bit memory, cutting the bandwidth in half. However, since it's gDDR5 memory it will still offer sufficient enough bandwidth.

And all that with a single chip utilizing less than 86 Watts. On that topic -- one of the bigger accomplishments of the series 5000 graphics cards is the enhancement in the power design, the implementation of voltage and clock regulation is even more dynamic -- power management at a new level.

In IDLE the GPU will clock down and lower its voltages on both GPU and memory. Have a look:

GPU Radeon HD 4870 Radeon HD 5750 Radeon HD 5770
Max. Board Power (TDP) 160W 86W 108W
Idle Board Power 90W 16W 18W

The 5750 achieves a low 16W IDLE power consumption by clocking down in several power stages. Thus a low engine (core) clock frequency with lowered voltages and lower GDDR5 memory power. It's amazing though as your generic graphics card would normally consume 50~60 Watts when it idles in Windows.

Things get even better though, the performance of the graphics card opposed to the last generation products remains roughly the same yet the 5750 has a TDP (peak wattage) of only 86 Watts. That is just really good. We will test power consumption later on in this article.

HIS Radeon HD 5750 ICEQ+

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