Asus 5570 to Sapphire 6570
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 1:40 pm
Last year I built the pc and picked the Asus model, however I overlooked the fact it was using DDR2 memory.
I play the odd game though not a hard core gamer. Anyway I was getting quite a big jump in performance v my old Gainward 256Mb Nvidia 7600GS which was also passive. As expected it's quite dated v newer cards and doesn't do a lot of decoding bar DVD's.
So quite a decent step up ie can play newer games at decent levels.
But I felt the bandwidth was hitting performance
Sure enough I got the fanless sapphire 6570 and Resident Evil 5 went from around 28fps 1600x900 on the 5570..to around 50fps with the 6570.
I normally don't bother with higher end cards as it's not worth it for me. Nor do I usually update frequently. But in this case it was def worth it add some more of the AMD APP processing units, UVD3 as well cards runs pretty cool, and quite respectable performance for the meagre outlay. I'd used a few Sapphire 6450's for recent builds and was surprised at how much better they were v the previous 5450 in performance terms. And I have to say the DD2 5570 was not that much quicker than those cards.
Probably not worth bothering if you run a DDR3 5570, but certainly a better than expected performance boost over the DDR2 version.
I play the odd game though not a hard core gamer. Anyway I was getting quite a big jump in performance v my old Gainward 256Mb Nvidia 7600GS which was also passive. As expected it's quite dated v newer cards and doesn't do a lot of decoding bar DVD's.
So quite a decent step up ie can play newer games at decent levels.
But I felt the bandwidth was hitting performance
Sure enough I got the fanless sapphire 6570 and Resident Evil 5 went from around 28fps 1600x900 on the 5570..to around 50fps with the 6570.
I normally don't bother with higher end cards as it's not worth it for me. Nor do I usually update frequently. But in this case it was def worth it add some more of the AMD APP processing units, UVD3 as well cards runs pretty cool, and quite respectable performance for the meagre outlay. I'd used a few Sapphire 6450's for recent builds and was surprised at how much better they were v the previous 5450 in performance terms. And I have to say the DD2 5570 was not that much quicker than those cards.
Probably not worth bothering if you run a DDR3 5570, but certainly a better than expected performance boost over the DDR2 version.