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April 4, 2010 by Lawrence Lee
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Product
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HIS HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo H587FNT1GDG
PCI-E Graphics Card
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Manufacturer
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Street Price
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~US$450
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The HIS 5870 Turbo is a factory-overclocked variant of the ATI Radeon HD 5870
that wore the high performance gaming crown for the last 6 months. While many
of us would like to own a HD 5870, the thought of emptying out our wallets to
the tune of US$400+ for a graphics card is an unthinkable proposition. Still
there is a market for such products, and PC gamers are an enthusiastic bunch,
with more than a few willing to shell-out plenty of dough to satiate their desire
to run the most advanced games smooth as silk at high resolutions with as much
eye candy as possible — a 5870 is right up their alley.
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The HIS HD 5870 Turbo.
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The HIS Turbo edition seems to offer good value compared to the other 5870s
on the market. It costs about $30 more than your average 5870, but not only
is it overclocked, it currently ships with a free coupon for popular game, Call
of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which retails for US$50~$60 (though this was omitted
in our sample). Also of interest is the fact they did not utilize the 5870 reference
heatsink, a box-style cooler with a blower fan pushing hot air out the back.
HIS instead uses a downblowing fan with a partial plastic cover that forces
all airflow from the fan down onto and over the components on the circuit board.
Typically when a custom heatsink appears on a high-end card, it delivers superior
performance.
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Accessories include two PCI-E power adapters, one CrossFire bridge, and
a single DVI to VGA adapter.
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Technical specifications according to GPU-Z.
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The HD 5870 is undoubtedly the most advanced graphics card to enter our labs. It
is based on the same 40 nm Cypress graphics core at the heart of the HD
5850, but with higher clock/memory speeds (850/1200 MHz vs. 700/1000
MHz) and an additional 160 stream processors. As if it wasn't fast enough, the
HIS Turbo edition is also pre-overclocked to 875/1225 MHz, giving it an additional
performance boost.
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| Model Name |
HIS HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo
(DirectX 11/ Eyefinity/ Full HD 1080p) Native HDMI 1GB (256bit) GDDR5 Dual
DL-DVI / Display Port / HDMI (HDCP) PCIe (RoHS) (MW2) |
| Chipset |
Radeon HD 5870 PCIe Series |
| ASIC |
Radeon HD 5870 GPU |
| Pixel Pipelines |
1600 stream processing
units* (Unified) |
| Vertex Engines |
1600 stream processing
units* (Unified) |
| Manu. Process (Micron)
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40nm |
| Memory Size (MB) |
1024 |
| Memory Type |
GDDR5 |
| RAMDAC (MHz) |
400 |
| Engine CLK (MHz) |
875 |
| Memory CLK (Gbps) |
4.9Gbps |
| Memory Interface (bit)
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256 |
| Power Supply Requirement
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500 Watt or greater power
supply with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended
(600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX technology in dual
mode) |
| Max. Resolution |
3x 2560*1600 (Dual dual-link) |
| Bus Interface |
PCI Express x16 |
| Display Port |
Yes |
| HDMI |
Yes |
| DVI |
Yes |
| 2nd DVI |
Yes |
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