Thursday, March 18, 2010

MSI R5770 Hawk Radeon HD 5770 Video Card Review

MSI Makes Video Cards?

MSI seemed to have turned on the graphics boom at the right juncture when it first entered the market in the last decade. As this once small company became a major alertness in the graphics field, MSI is a Tier 1 motherboard and graphics catalog manufacturer, tailor-made along with Gigabyte and Asus.  One reservation that MSI had previously excelled in was that of a yielding software bundle combined with a valued price card. Oftentimes the designs of their cards matched the allusion, and very little was done to differentiate their hardware from other offerings.  The bundle was the beginning for MSI, as they offered a wide variety of applications and games with each midrange and premium end cards.  Even on low end cards they would give clients / Users a game or two, plus native applications approximating to overclocking and quality settings. So as the world moves on, so has MSI.  Gone are the days of huge and comprehensive bundles.  Instead, we are seeing a much fresher, interesting differentiation with the bona fide hardware itself. The first iterations of any new graphics card will be based on the reference design with reference cooling. MSI is getting popular by being ahead in offering fully customized designed parts with unique PCBs besides cooling options.  Most people no longer charge about bundles, as the games typically includes equivalent offerings in lower end titles.  Instead, we are now looking at personal hardware offerings that will keep their appeal far longer than a $5 game.

The Radeon HD 5770

The HD 5770 is the bigger brother of the HD 5750 that I reviewed earlier this week. The HD 5770 is based on the Juniper XT chip, from the Evergreen central of chips. It is the midrange contribution which is essentially ½ of a Cypress chip, which powers the HD 5870.  Unlike the HD 5750, this is a fully utile side with no units fused off on the die.  It features 800 stream units which comprise 10 SIMD units.  It also features a husky 40 texture units and 16 ROPS. The HD 5750 is clocked at a sedate 700 MHz, but the HD 5770 takes that increasing a few notches to 850 MHz.  In terms of overall rendering and shading power, the HD 5770 is halfway on par with the older HD 4890. The main differentiating factor though is the memory bandwidth available to both cards.  The HD 4890 had around 128 GB/sec of bandwidth available to it, pace the HD 5770 is trailing by nearly half at 76.8 GB/sec. This is obviously due to the HD 4890 having a full 256 deal memory bus, life span the HD 5770 has a 128 vivacity bus.

The MSI Radeon Hawk R5770 Graphics Card is a stuffed DirectX 11 duteous part, and it has the same tessellation unit as the bigger/badder HD 5800 line does.  The card also carries the whopping cd playback suite that is contained within AVIVO HD.  Again, the most arousing of these features are the Vector Adaptive
De-interlacing plus HD audio bit streaming. This Card is Awesome for Game Playing and highly recommended by game manufacturers.

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