New video card the lower level from AMD, which supports DirectX 11, will appear in the first quarter of 2010. The model, known as the ATI Radeon HD 5670, will occupy one slot, in addition, it will not require additional power connectors, as well as for this model is quite enough energy to be provided through a slot PCI-Express. Yesterday, the network had the first photograph of the card, and now published the results of a test sample card, held by some of the enthusiast community.

HD 5600 series is made on 40 nm process technology and is known as Redwood. If you believe the utility GPU-Z, then the new graphics processors have 400 universal processors, retain 128-bit memory interface and GDDR5 are working with 16 ROP. If we assume that the frequencies are shown in the screenshot are the reference, the core of the new GPU will work with the frequency 775MGts, and 1GB of RAM running at 1000MHz, i.e., memory bandwidth is 64GB / s. Red PCB future video bright spot allocates it among the already presented models of the family Evergreen. This graphics card cooled by a simple fan blowing radically arranged fins.

Sample graphics chip Radeon HD 5670 was tested in a system with a processor Intel Core I5 750 with a frequency of 2.66GHz, motherboard Gigabyte P55M-UD2 and 4GB of RAM OCZ DDR3-1333. For comparison, the same system was tested by reference video on-chip Radeon HD 4670 512 MB. In the first test, Street Fighter 4 1600x1200, No AA, 16x AF, HD 5670 graphics card scored 10,473 points with an average framerate of 95.35fps. Graphics Card HD 4670 scored 8559 points with an average framerate of 65.35fps. The subsequently test was Unigine Heaven Demo v1.0 DirectX 10 (SM 4.0) 1024x768, windowed. With processor clocked at 2.53GHz (according to the screenshot), HD 5670 scored 859 points in frame rates 34.1fps, while HD 4670 with a processor at a frequency of 2.66GHz scored 699 points at 278fps.