November 30th, 1999
ATI Radeon HD 5750
For Radeon HD 5750, overclocked up to 870 MHz of GPU and 1430 (5720) MHz of the memory, these numbers equal 14 % and 16 %, respectively. It is not a bad gift for overclockers, the more so as real overclocking enthusiasts will manage to achieve even more impressive results, using powerful cooling systems, for sure. However, we must remark, that the main weakness of the new family is the 128–bit memory bus which evidently holds back accrual of productivity from overclocking in high resolutions. Download ATI Radeon HD 5750 video card driver.
So, revolution goes on — and the banner of support of DirectX 11 was caught up by affordable solutions by AMD/ATI. From our point of view, the new family Radeon HD 5700 turned out extremely successful and practically without whatever noticeable drawbacks. We remark also, that for today a gap has formed in the ATI Radeon HD 5×00 price line between medium–budget HD 5750/5770 and expensive HD 5850/5870. What will fill it — Radeon HD 4790 or maybe Radeon HD 5830? To all appearances, we shall find an answer to this question in the nearest future as it is not possible, that AMD would lose dight of such an obvious fact.