The ATI Radeon HD 5970 is a monstrous card in every way, and Sapphire has given its sample a little nudge further. You could theoretically get more performance from two 5870s, but the Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 is a fantastic, if gargantuan, single-card...
Spending more than £500 on a graphics card is a serious decision. When you consider that we thought the HD 5870 was over the top, it will come as no surprise that we classify the HD 5970 as a frivolous toy. But, darn it, what a toy. ®...
To say the least the Sapphire 5970 is a monster. Not only is the card ridiculously long, but also extremely powerful. If you plan on trying to fit this into a mid tower case you can pretty much forget that unless you have a removable HDD cage. Even...
Those in the market for the Radeon HD5970 will want a very fast CPU and AT LEAST a 1920x1080 monitor. Even better, grab a nice 30" or three - Eyefinity is a nice addition and, with cheaper 1920x1080 monitors hitting under $200, you could have a...
Having a single Radeon HD 5970 graphics card is, in the nicest possible sense, overkill for most people. Our review of the twin-GPU goliath highlights that users need to run sky-high resolutions and image-quality settings to get the most out of the...
Quite simply, the Sapphire HD 5970 OC is the fastest graphics card on the planet, offering shock-inducing performance that cannot be touched by any single or dual-GPU card out there. And with the ability to tweak the voltages to overclock this card...
HD 5970 is a big, long graphics card that draws a hefty amount of power and chucks out a significant amount of heat when it is working hard. The 40nm fabrication process has allowed ATi to cram in a massive number of Unified Shaders and the result is...
I can say that all of them copy the reference design. I mentioned repeatedly that newest, very expensive solutions are always made at the same factory by order of the GPU manufacturer (i.e. AMD or NVIDIA), while partners only purchase ready cards and...
Given the already superb performance levels of the Radeon HD 5870, the introduction of a dual-GPU solution on a single card featuring two Cypress cores was always going to take the overall graphics performance crown, and that's exactly what the...
Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 OC is currently the fastest gaming card you can find. Let us recap –Radeon 5970 is a dual-GPU card with two Cypres GPUs, which Sapphire overclocked by 10MHz from the reference 725MHz. The card packs 2GB of GDDR5 memory,...
Pros:
Cons: