AMD ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition 2GB GDDR5 PCIe

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 4 expert reviews

Excellent:

1
Good:

1
Average:

1
Bad:

1

Pros:

Can drive up to six monitors at a time.
Delivers good single-monitor gaming performance.
2GB of frame buffer increases performance at highest resolutions.

Cons:

Mini DisplayPort jacks will require adapters (and possibly expensive ones) for almost all users.
Setup of multiple large monitors can be cumbersome.

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Last revision on February 3, 2012

Reviewers Liked

Can drive up to six monitors at a time
Delivers good single-monitor gaming performance
2GB of frame buffer increases performance at highest resolutions

Reviewers Didn't Like

Mini DisplayPort jacks will require adapters (and possibly expensive ones) for almost all users
Setup of multiple large monitors can be cumbersome
Playable frame rates only possible with multiple displays

Expert reviews and ratings

As a fully paid up, card carrying member of the multi-monitor brigade, I should have been the one person on the team getting all gooey over the thought of six (six!) screens powered by one graphics card. I've been running a couple of screens from my...

By TechRadar on June 01, 2010

Performance-wise, the games we tested were all capable of running at 30fps or better at 5,760 x 2,160 (not bezel compensated), which alone speaks volumes about the raw pixel pushing prowess of AMD’s flagship GPU. The cost of entry for an Eyefinity 6...

By ComputerPowerUser on April 09, 2010

AMD's 2GB ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition is something of a double-edged sword. The idea behind it, and the theory, is worthy of praise, but the current end results leave plenty to be desired. Aimed at the enthusiast space, the combination of...

By HEXUS.net on March 31, 2010

The first time I laid eyes on this card I was visiting AMD's headquarters in Sunnyvale before the Radeon HD 5800 series launch event. I could take photos of the 6 displays it was driving, but not the card itself. So we'll start off with a...

By AnandTech on June 01, 2010

The area of power consumption isn't drastically affected by the additional 1GB of memory though we were only pushing a single panel in this test; expect it to creep up ever so slightly with more monitors connected. But man, don't expect to see...

By PCPer on March 31, 2010

Last week was a mad rush to get Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480 and 470 tested in sufficient depth to draw some very real conclusions about how the new cards perform in today’s games, how they might fare in the future, and the power they’ll...

By Tom's Hardware UK on March 31, 2010

Go play some games .. on six LCD screens Think about this for a second, can you even grasp the idea that it has only been six months ago when ATI released its first DX11 class products ... six months (!) Not a month went by with ATI not releasing a...

By Guru of 3D on March 31, 2010

Surely, the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition is a specialty product, aimed at the few folks out there willing to “go big” on displays. Its competitive position is made that much stronger by the fact that Nvidia’s flagship maxes out...

By Tom's Hardware on March 31, 2010

If you've ever dreamed of having a wall of monitors of your very own, the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6 Edition video card can make it a reality. But setting everything up won't necessarily be easy or cheap, and the performance may not live up...

By PC Mag on March 31, 2010

The Eyefinity 6 is an impressive piece of hardware. No doubt about that: on top of the already great feature set of the HD 5870 you now have the opportunity to use six displays at once. However, as impressive as it is, only a small subset of folks...

By Neoseeker on March 30, 2010

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