Hemlock, that's the code name given to the ATI / AMD for a graphics card that has the highest current performance. Curious what that good gaming performance from this monster? Check out the following articles.
4th quarter 2009 until the article was made (Q1 2010), arguably the most productive period of the ATI / AMD graphics cards in producing the latest technology, DirectX 11 (Evergreen Series). As if he did not want to lose this momentum, ATI released a wide range of variants that have graphics cards DirectX 11 technology brings, from the series High End (Cypress), mainstream (Juniper), and about to be signed for entry-level series (Redwood).
Still not satisfied flooding the market with new products, ATI wants to further strengthen its position by releasing a series of previous enthusiast has code-named Hemlock, and now officially called Radeon HD 5970. This is the latest flagship product from ATI, consumer-class graphics card is the fastest, at least until now.
Radeon HD 5970 has the exact same architecture with the HD 5870. The difference, he has two GPUs on one PCB board. Previously, ATI-frills include "X2" for this kind of product, such as the Radeon HD 3870X2 and HD 4870X2, but the naming technique is now abandoned and ATI would prefer to use a naming convention based on the sequence number series. Thus, the Radeon HD 5970 is a version of "double" is faster than HD 5870. In addition to the amount of GPU, another difference lies in the core operating frequency, shader, and memory of the HD 5970 is slightly lower than the HD 5870. It is necessary to maintain the temperature and the operational power requirements from the Radeon HD 5970 in order to stay within safe limits. As this article was made, this graphics card in the official price with the price range of U.S. $ 610 to U.S. $ 650, which is almost close to the price of two HD 5850. Quite interesting considering that the specifications obtained from nearly 5970 is equivalent to two 5870 (Core, memory, and shader lower).
The first vendor who sent HD 5970 samples to the lab is the MSI CHIP R5970. Overall, MSI graphics card uses reference specifications of the ATI HD 5970, with 725 MHz core clock, and the GDDR5 memory with effective clock 4000 MHz. Of course, the interesting part of MSI's graphics card was the availability of utilities tuning applications afterburner. With this application you can freely do tuning (overclocking) of these graphics cards, ranging from just a mild overclock to overclock by doing Overvoltage (increase voltage) is quite risky if done to excess. In the sales package include a converter to mini DisplayPort DisplayPort, but the converter is already commonly used, such as through a mini DisplayPort DVI, not provided.
In this test included two graphics cards comparison, the ZOTAC GTX295 from NVIDIA's enthusiast-class formerly known as the holder of the title fastest graphics card, and a PowerColor HD 5870 GPU with the same chip with the HD 5970 to compare how much difference in performance with a 5970 HD specifications twice as high.
Tests involving several real game tests, such as Crysis, Resident Evil, Left4Dead, and one of the games that utilize the latest technology DirecX 11, which Colin McRae Dirt2. Circuit testing software will show the differences of each performance graphics card. To maximize the performance of three high-end graphics card, the CHIP processor i7 Extreme 975 and 3:33 GHz overclock testing with 4.13 GHz processor to overclock the HD 5970 with approximately 10% of the default clock.
Initially, CHIP Eyefinity plans to test using the monitor with 3 pieces Full HD resolution of 1920 × 1080. Unfortunately, Eyefinity can only be used with two monitors, because DisplayPort should be used as a requirement if you want to use the LCD three or more.
Benchmark programs from Futuremark is one of popular program used to measure the performance of graphics cards. Setting used is Performance Mode Disabled PPU to the GPU features NVIDIA PhysX does not affect the overall value of this test.
Performance of the HD 5970 was remarkable, leaving the value of the difference GTX295 with nearly 2,000 points, while the system in an increase overclock very high values up to 23,461 points. This shows that the HD 5970 can still run faster with a faster processor. While HD 5870 still have to acknowledge the benefits of GeForce GTX295 which does have "raw power" greater. Radeon HD 5870 only the 17,152 figure recorded a point in this test. With the value of 20,927 (standard clock), Radeon HD 5970 faster about 15% compared to the 5870 HD rely solely on one GPU.
This game does require the performance of a high graphics card to be able to play comfortably. Currently, some graphics cards are capable of running this game with the frame rate (fps) is quite comfortable in the eye. CHIP uses DirectX 10 mode with high settings and a resolution of 1920 × 1080.
From the graph of test results, see the difference the difference in performance more dilated when compared with the 3D Mark Vantage. With the value of 73.93 FPS, HD 5970 almost 40% faster than the HD 5870 (55.23 FPS), and approximately 15% faster than GeForce GTX 295. Uniquely, overclocking does not help improve scores because Crysis is not very sensitive to the increase in processor performance.
CHIP also includes benchmarks from game Batman: Arkham Asylum. CHIP uses very high settings. Resolution set at 1920 × 1080 without PhysX enabled feature.
ATI HD 5970 produces a very high score that is, 254 fps. Just as a test in Crysis, this game did not experience an increase in performance when the system overclock. (GPU Bound). In fact there is a decrease compared with 1 fps running system default. NVIDIA GTX 295 scores adrift far enough from the HD 5970, approximately 50 fps. HD 5870 can only produce 183 fps score.
In the test with the settings without PhysX ATI graphics card HD 5970 is still the fastest participant, and the GTX 295 is below. However, if the active PhysX settings, it will change 180 degrees.
Dirt 2
DIRT2, this is one game with DirectX 11 support that has been present since late last year. CHIP uses this game to test the ability of ATI Radeon HD 5970 in the run DirectX 11 games. CHIP also include any other graphics card is the ATI Radeon HD 5870. This game provides a benchmark feature for the graphics card. CHIP also tested graphics cards from NVIDIA, the GeForce GTX 295. CHIP test all these products with HD resolution, 1920 × 1080, and with maximum quality settings. Because using the highest quality settings, means the ATI Radeon HD 5970 using the full features of DirectX 11 on this game. While NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 is limited to DirectX 10 mode, will only take advantage of all features in the DirectX 10 only.
Armed with two-chip GPU, the ATI Radeon HD 5970 can run this game fast. Frame rate (fps) are acquired, including high-resolution and quality settings like this. With overclock to 4:13 GHz processor and graphics card to increase the speed by 10%, CHIP only get a slight increase in frame rate is obtained. Dependence on the performance of graphics cards seems to make the frame rate in this game can not climb higher.
Meanwhile, the performance of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 and ATI Radeon HD 5870 adrift far enough below the ATI Radeon HD 5970. The difference reached the range of 25%. However, when using the NVIDIA GTX 295, the frame rate this game is still good enough that this game is still comfortable to play (although the effect is not as good as the ATI series 5).
CHIP also tested HD 5970 graphics card with a horror-themed games from Capcom, the Resident Evil 5. This game provides a benchmark for graphics cards in DirectX 9 mode and DirectX 10. CHIP using Very High settings on DirectX 10 benchmark fixed mode, in order to test the game can be seamless.
The average score produced by the ATI HD 5970 with standard conditions is 127.4 fps. As in-overclock system, there is increased up to 10 fps (137.3 fps). This is enough to show that Capcom made the game engine is quite sensitive to changes in processor speed and graphics card. Can be seen from the chart on the side, the difference in frame rate with the 295 GTX, HD 5970 in the default condition clinged 11 fps. ATI HD 5870 here last performance positions.
Other horror-themed games that test CHIP is Left 4 Dead. CHIP uses a homemade demo time specifically to test the performance of graphics cards and CHIP using Very High settings at 1080 × 1920 resolution. In this test, there was no significant difference in all the tested graphics cards. Even when overclocking the system in-one performance that is not the same as in-overclock. In addition, performance comparisons between the ATI HD 5970 and NVIDIA GTX 295 is only about 2 fps adrift alone. Compared with HD was 5870, a separate performance for only 4 fps.
Not complete it if the power consumption of each graphics card is not covered here. Of course, the use of high-end graphics cards also require high power consumption. This can be seen in the graph on the left. All graphics cards that use the CHIP test more than 125 watts. HD 5970 itself uses 298 watts, while the HD 5870 is slightly lower in power consumption of 256 watts. NVIDIA GTX 295 uses the greatest power on the test this time, by consuming 165 watts when idle and 352 watts when reaching full load.
You intend to "adopt" this monster? CHIP provides some tips and important info to keep in mind, so that HD 5970 can run normally and optimally.
1. Prepare an extra wide chassis to accommodate extra-long graphics card is (30 cm). CHIP suggests a Full Tower case, and also with a good flow of water will make this case "nest" is convenient for HD 5970.
2. After a certain HD-5970 can be had in akomodir in your case, make sure that power supply you have 8-pin and 6-pin power connector, with a minimum rating of 650 Watt Pure Power. CHIP recommends 800 Watt power supply or more, if you use a lot of other peripherals, and to overclock.
3. The next stage, so this graphics card is running optimally, by ensuring the system (processor) you have fast enough to offset the speed of the HD 5970 graphics card, in order to reduce the bottleneck. CHIP recommend at least grade Core i7 processor. You can also overclock the processor to consider showing the maximum performance from this graphics card.
4. The last thing to note, but no less important is the display output. Is LCD display with Full HD resolution (1920 × 1080) is enough? Currently, graphics cards are designed to handle very high resolutions. With Eyefinity feature you can enjoy the game with a resolution of at least 3 fruit LCD Full HD (5760 × 1080) as well. Of course, resolution or wide visibility it would give the sensation of playing experience that much more exciting.
Conclusion
The fastest, sophisticated, Longest and Most Expensive
Holders of the new throne
Like the wheel of life, sometimes we are under, and one day we will all be back on top. This is constantly happening in the two eternal rivals ATI and NVIDIA. This time ATI was on the NVIDIA. HD 5970 GTX 295 outperformed success of the aspects of speed, technology, and power consumption required. Therefore be appropriate if the HD 5970 is called as the flagship product for the current best. It does not seem fair that these two graphics cards are born in different generations. Therefore, we wait for the answer to Nvidia from ATI's advantage as this.
Some other considerations
For the use of pure game play, graphics cards from ATI is indeed a very high performance. However, for the use of CUDA-based applications or DirectCompute, such as folding, video rendering, and games that use PhysX, superior HD 5970 will not be too visible. To OpenCL itself still not seeing implementation. Hopefully later in the future will have many applications that can take advantage of this.
Should be with DisplayPort
For those of you who plan to use a feature Eyefinity, make sure your monitor provides a DisplayPort input or you have prepared the appropriate converter. Eyefinity not be used in more than two monitors if DisplayPort connectors on graphics cards are not used. This is caused by the amount of output from the DVI / HDMI is limited. What matters is the current monitor with DisplayPort input is still very rarely available, and the ATI converter itself does not include this in the sales package. This can be quite constraining, because the price of the converter itself is quite expensive, which is about U.S. $ 99 for a product from Apple.
4th quarter 2009 until the article was made (Q1 2010), arguably the most productive period of the ATI / AMD graphics cards in producing the latest technology, DirectX 11 (Evergreen Series). As if he did not want to lose this momentum, ATI released a wide range of variants that have graphics cards DirectX 11 technology brings, from the series High End (Cypress), mainstream (Juniper), and about to be signed for entry-level series (Redwood).
Still not satisfied flooding the market with new products, ATI wants to further strengthen its position by releasing a series of previous enthusiast has code-named Hemlock, and now officially called Radeon HD 5970. This is the latest flagship product from ATI, consumer-class graphics card is the fastest, at least until now.
Overview HD 5970
Radeon HD 5970 has the exact same architecture with the HD 5870. The difference, he has two GPUs on one PCB board. Previously, ATI-frills include "X2" for this kind of product, such as the Radeon HD 3870X2 and HD 4870X2, but the naming technique is now abandoned and ATI would prefer to use a naming convention based on the sequence number series. Thus, the Radeon HD 5970 is a version of "double" is faster than HD 5870. In addition to the amount of GPU, another difference lies in the core operating frequency, shader, and memory of the HD 5970 is slightly lower than the HD 5870. It is necessary to maintain the temperature and the operational power requirements from the Radeon HD 5970 in order to stay within safe limits. As this article was made, this graphics card in the official price with the price range of U.S. $ 610 to U.S. $ 650, which is almost close to the price of two HD 5850. Quite interesting considering that the specifications obtained from nearly 5970 is equivalent to two 5870 (Core, memory, and shader lower).
Provide dimensions of the chassis that can accommodate this graphics card as long as 30cm.
For the power connector can walk normally, graphics cards require a power connector 8-pin and 6-pin.
MSI HD 5970
The first vendor who sent HD 5970 samples to the lab is the MSI CHIP R5970. Overall, MSI graphics card uses reference specifications of the ATI HD 5970, with 725 MHz core clock, and the GDDR5 memory with effective clock 4000 MHz. Of course, the interesting part of MSI's graphics card was the availability of utilities tuning applications afterburner. With this application you can freely do tuning (overclocking) of these graphics cards, ranging from just a mild overclock to overclock by doing Overvoltage (increase voltage) is quite risky if done to excess. In the sales package include a converter to mini DisplayPort DisplayPort, but the converter is already commonly used, such as through a mini DisplayPort DVI, not provided.
"Clash Of The Titans"
In this test included two graphics cards comparison, the ZOTAC GTX295 from NVIDIA's enthusiast-class formerly known as the holder of the title fastest graphics card, and a PowerColor HD 5870 GPU with the same chip with the HD 5970 to compare how much difference in performance with a 5970 HD specifications twice as high.
Tests involving several real game tests, such as Crysis, Resident Evil, Left4Dead, and one of the games that utilize the latest technology DirecX 11, which Colin McRae Dirt2. Circuit testing software will show the differences of each performance graphics card. To maximize the performance of three high-end graphics card, the CHIP processor i7 Extreme 975 and 3:33 GHz overclock testing with 4.13 GHz processor to overclock the HD 5970 with approximately 10% of the default clock.
Initially, CHIP Eyefinity plans to test using the monitor with 3 pieces Full HD resolution of 1920 × 1080. Unfortunately, Eyefinity can only be used with two monitors, because DisplayPort should be used as a requirement if you want to use the LCD three or more.
Long Arm of the measure appears shorter GTX295 when juxtaposed HD 5970.
3DMark Vantage
Benchmark programs from Futuremark is one of popular program used to measure the performance of graphics cards. Setting used is Performance Mode Disabled PPU to the GPU features NVIDIA PhysX does not affect the overall value of this test.
Performance of the HD 5970 was remarkable, leaving the value of the difference GTX295 with nearly 2,000 points, while the system in an increase overclock very high values up to 23,461 points. This shows that the HD 5970 can still run faster with a faster processor. While HD 5870 still have to acknowledge the benefits of GeForce GTX295 which does have "raw power" greater. Radeon HD 5870 only the 17,152 figure recorded a point in this test. With the value of 20,927 (standard clock), Radeon HD 5970 faster about 15% compared to the 5870 HD rely solely on one GPU.
Crysis
This game does require the performance of a high graphics card to be able to play comfortably. Currently, some graphics cards are capable of running this game with the frame rate (fps) is quite comfortable in the eye. CHIP uses DirectX 10 mode with high settings and a resolution of 1920 × 1080.
From the graph of test results, see the difference the difference in performance more dilated when compared with the 3D Mark Vantage. With the value of 73.93 FPS, HD 5970 almost 40% faster than the HD 5870 (55.23 FPS), and approximately 15% faster than GeForce GTX 295. Uniquely, overclocking does not help improve scores because Crysis is not very sensitive to the increase in processor performance.
Batman Arkham Asylum
CHIP also includes benchmarks from game Batman: Arkham Asylum. CHIP uses very high settings. Resolution set at 1920 × 1080 without PhysX enabled feature.
ATI HD 5970 produces a very high score that is, 254 fps. Just as a test in Crysis, this game did not experience an increase in performance when the system overclock. (GPU Bound). In fact there is a decrease compared with 1 fps running system default. NVIDIA GTX 295 scores adrift far enough from the HD 5970, approximately 50 fps. HD 5870 can only produce 183 fps score.
In the test with the settings without PhysX ATI graphics card HD 5970 is still the fastest participant, and the GTX 295 is below. However, if the active PhysX settings, it will change 180 degrees.
Dirt 2
DIRT2, this is one game with DirectX 11 support that has been present since late last year. CHIP uses this game to test the ability of ATI Radeon HD 5970 in the run DirectX 11 games. CHIP also include any other graphics card is the ATI Radeon HD 5870. This game provides a benchmark feature for the graphics card. CHIP also tested graphics cards from NVIDIA, the GeForce GTX 295. CHIP test all these products with HD resolution, 1920 × 1080, and with maximum quality settings. Because using the highest quality settings, means the ATI Radeon HD 5970 using the full features of DirectX 11 on this game. While NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 is limited to DirectX 10 mode, will only take advantage of all features in the DirectX 10 only.
Armed with two-chip GPU, the ATI Radeon HD 5970 can run this game fast. Frame rate (fps) are acquired, including high-resolution and quality settings like this. With overclock to 4:13 GHz processor and graphics card to increase the speed by 10%, CHIP only get a slight increase in frame rate is obtained. Dependence on the performance of graphics cards seems to make the frame rate in this game can not climb higher.
Meanwhile, the performance of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 and ATI Radeon HD 5870 adrift far enough below the ATI Radeon HD 5970. The difference reached the range of 25%. However, when using the NVIDIA GTX 295, the frame rate this game is still good enough that this game is still comfortable to play (although the effect is not as good as the ATI series 5).
Resident Evil 5
CHIP also tested HD 5970 graphics card with a horror-themed games from Capcom, the Resident Evil 5. This game provides a benchmark for graphics cards in DirectX 9 mode and DirectX 10. CHIP using Very High settings on DirectX 10 benchmark fixed mode, in order to test the game can be seamless.
The average score produced by the ATI HD 5970 with standard conditions is 127.4 fps. As in-overclock system, there is increased up to 10 fps (137.3 fps). This is enough to show that Capcom made the game engine is quite sensitive to changes in processor speed and graphics card. Can be seen from the chart on the side, the difference in frame rate with the 295 GTX, HD 5970 in the default condition clinged 11 fps. ATI HD 5870 here last performance positions.
Left 4 Dead
Other horror-themed games that test CHIP is Left 4 Dead. CHIP uses a homemade demo time specifically to test the performance of graphics cards and CHIP using Very High settings at 1080 × 1920 resolution. In this test, there was no significant difference in all the tested graphics cards. Even when overclocking the system in-one performance that is not the same as in-overclock. In addition, performance comparisons between the ATI HD 5970 and NVIDIA GTX 295 is only about 2 fps adrift alone. Compared with HD was 5870, a separate performance for only 4 fps.
Not complete it if the power consumption of each graphics card is not covered here. Of course, the use of high-end graphics cards also require high power consumption. This can be seen in the graph on the left. All graphics cards that use the CHIP test more than 125 watts. HD 5970 itself uses 298 watts, while the HD 5870 is slightly lower in power consumption of 256 watts. NVIDIA GTX 295 uses the greatest power on the test this time, by consuming 165 watts when idle and 352 watts when reaching full load.
Tips & Info
Should Prepared Before Using HD 5970 You intend to "adopt" this monster? CHIP provides some tips and important info to keep in mind, so that HD 5970 can run normally and optimally.
1. Prepare an extra wide chassis to accommodate extra-long graphics card is (30 cm). CHIP suggests a Full Tower case, and also with a good flow of water will make this case "nest" is convenient for HD 5970.
2. After a certain HD-5970 can be had in akomodir in your case, make sure that power supply you have 8-pin and 6-pin power connector, with a minimum rating of 650 Watt Pure Power. CHIP recommends 800 Watt power supply or more, if you use a lot of other peripherals, and to overclock.
3. The next stage, so this graphics card is running optimally, by ensuring the system (processor) you have fast enough to offset the speed of the HD 5970 graphics card, in order to reduce the bottleneck. CHIP recommend at least grade Core i7 processor. You can also overclock the processor to consider showing the maximum performance from this graphics card.
4. The last thing to note, but no less important is the display output. Is LCD display with Full HD resolution (1920 × 1080) is enough? Currently, graphics cards are designed to handle very high resolutions. With Eyefinity feature you can enjoy the game with a resolution of at least 3 fruit LCD Full HD (5760 × 1080) as well. Of course, resolution or wide visibility it would give the sensation of playing experience that much more exciting.
Conclusion
The fastest, sophisticated, Longest and Most Expensive
Holders of the new throne
Like the wheel of life, sometimes we are under, and one day we will all be back on top. This is constantly happening in the two eternal rivals ATI and NVIDIA. This time ATI was on the NVIDIA. HD 5970 GTX 295 outperformed success of the aspects of speed, technology, and power consumption required. Therefore be appropriate if the HD 5970 is called as the flagship product for the current best. It does not seem fair that these two graphics cards are born in different generations. Therefore, we wait for the answer to Nvidia from ATI's advantage as this.
Some other considerations
For the use of pure game play, graphics cards from ATI is indeed a very high performance. However, for the use of CUDA-based applications or DirectCompute, such as folding, video rendering, and games that use PhysX, superior HD 5970 will not be too visible. To OpenCL itself still not seeing implementation. Hopefully later in the future will have many applications that can take advantage of this.
Should be with DisplayPort
For those of you who plan to use a feature Eyefinity, make sure your monitor provides a DisplayPort input or you have prepared the appropriate converter. Eyefinity not be used in more than two monitors if DisplayPort connectors on graphics cards are not used. This is caused by the amount of output from the DVI / HDMI is limited. What matters is the current monitor with DisplayPort input is still very rarely available, and the ATI converter itself does not include this in the sales package. This can be quite constraining, because the price of the converter itself is quite expensive, which is about U.S. $ 99 for a product from Apple.
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