HIS Radeon HD 5850 1GB PCIe H585F1GDG

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 7 expert reviews

Excellent:

4
Good:

2
Average:

1
Bad:

0

Pros:

Great performance, Quiet operation, Supports ATi Eyefinity, Supports ATi Stream, Supports DirectX 11, Dual DVI, HDMI and a Display port, Excellent image quality, CrossFireX Ready, Included Coupon for Dirt2, Best bang for the buck

Cons:

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Last revision on August 10, 2011

Reviewers Liked

Great performance, Quiet operation, Supports ATi Eyefinity, Supports ATi Stream, Supports DirectX 11, Dual DVI, HDMI and a Display port, Excellent image quality, CrossFireX Ready, Included Coupon for Dirt2, Best bang for the buck

Expert reviews and ratings

It's crystal clear by now that AMD has managed to deliver the fastest and second-fastest single-GPU graphics cards money can buy over the past month. At $260, it doesn’t take a great deal of cash to get your hands on a Radeon HD 5850, and the...

By TechSpot on October 09, 2009

Have a scoot around the online retailers for the Radeon HD 5850, and you're not so much opening a can of worms as stripping naked, upending the can on your head, and running off down the streets with a hoot and a gibber, twig and berries flapping in...

By TechRadar on February 11, 2011

And there we have it. Another impressive set of results from another Radeon HD 5850 graphics card. Like the others, we were able to achieve the maximum overclock permitted by the ATi Catalyst Control Centre as well. For those who wish to buy a...

By Overclock3D on December 31, 2009

100

Last week we looked at AMD's brand new top-end graphics card the and found it to be a seriously impressive piece of hardware. It doubled the performance of previous generation hardware (on a chip by chip basis) and came in at a reasonable...

By Trusted Reviews on October 17, 2009

As we’ve seen from the performance numbers, the Radeon HD 5850 is a solid match for the , beating the top end Nvidia card in some circumstances and falling behind in others, with the end result being a rough stalemate between the two cards across...

By Bit-tech.net on October 14, 2009

As cool-running as its faster sibling - but £100 cheaper and still a big leap over the previous generation of AMD...

By RegHardware on October 12, 2009

HIS’s take on the 5850 gives us a reference design card with all the cables/connectors we need, a 1-year warranty and a free copy of Dirt 2. As always, price the competition up when buying but at this time HIS is one of the cheaper versions of the 5850...

By HardwareHeaven on October 10, 2009

First of all, let me remind you that all RADEON HD 5xxx cards support the new DirectX 11 API, higher-quality anisotropic filtering, triple-monitor configurations, as well as other features described in our baseline review. RADEON HD 5850 is the...

By iXBT Labs on December 12, 2009

By now I think we all know about the good and the bad of AMD's Radeon HD 5870 graphics solution - The bad being that it's still next to impossible to buy one, particularly at a reasonable price, with the good being.... Well, everything else...

By Elite Bastards on December 08, 2009

As was the case with the HIS HD5870, the smaller brother is every bit as impressive if not more so. The HIS HD5850 shows us that in the average Joe's system, it brings the best bang for the buck to the table hands down. Add in that the HD5850 is...

By Overclocker Cafe on November 21, 2009

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