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Conclusions - Final

Another highlight to be made concerns the great margin of overclock that this card can bring. With the test model, it was possible to bring the frequencies to 870 MHz and 5Ghz for GPU and memory respectively.

Despite overclocking it’s not supported, it’s worth highlighting this fact: The card can then reach a performance level which is very similar to the Radeon HD 5770, which costs around €25 more.

Conclusions - Part 3

The reason for the somewhat narrow price range is probably due to ATI’s own policy with the Radeon HD 4800: the continuous price cuts in order to make the card extremely competitive resulted in a very narrow margin between each one of the cards.

When compared to a solution such as the GeForce GTS 250, the ATI proposal seems to be superior: depending on the quality and resolution, a bigger amount of memory and less energy consumption seem to be quite convincing points. Of course, another fact comes into view: in a few weeks or maybe months, it’ll be possible to buy a Radeon HD 5750 for a more competitive price.

Conclusions - Part 1

In order to make a good objective evaluation on the new ATI Radeon HD 5750, it’s necessary to bring forward the prices of the other cards on the price range currently on the market. The current market situation is very complex: within an average of €50 difference, we find many different cards, including the two new proposals from ATI.

The fact they’ve been recently launched doesn’t work in their favor: resellers cannot lower their prices just yet, due to the lack of big sales. The launch price is always higher than what is generally seen after a few months. In this case, the difference in price for the new ATI cards only reveal their “novelty” value.

Noise

The heatsink system used by Sapphire is different from ATI’s reference system for the other HD 5000 card series: the solution on this review manages to keep very low temperatures, as we’ve talked about before.

Despite the heatsink being less efficient and complex from the other Radeon HD 5000 series, the noise is however very contained, both in idle and full load.

Energy consumption

The energy consumption analysis puts on evidence the enhancements made by ATI on their 40nm technology. With a full system consumption of 128 Watts when in idle and 287 when in full load, it’s clearly an enhancement from the values obtained with the “bigger” cards, such as the 5870 and 5570.

With these optimizations, the Radeon HD 5750 is capable of keeping consumtions that are lower than the HD 4770, for example.

Far Cry 2

The tests were done with the game in high quality for all settings, with DirectX 10 and Anti-aliasing 4x.

- 1920 x 1200 - 39
- 1680 x 1050 - 44
- 1280 x 1024 - 53

With FarCry 2, it shows the good work from AI on their Catalyst drivers: since its first introduction, the game has always demonstrated a better performance with the nVIDIA-based architecture, which changed with the latest Catalyst drivers, and the results can be seen clearly.

Call of Duty 5

The FPS measurement was done using Fraps, anti-aliasing 4x and all quality settings in the maximum level possible, using the game’s configuration panel.

- 1920 x 1200 - 55
- 1680 x 1050 - 65
- 1280 x 1024 - 78

Call of Duty 5 has usually always given better performances for the nVIDIA GT200 architecture, and in this case, it’s not different.

Tom Clancy’s HAWX

We used the integrated benchmark on the demo version of the game, with all settings in high except for the low ambient occlusion. The tests were done with the DirectX 10 APIs and anti-aliasing 4x. Also, as the ATI cards are compatible to Directx 10.1, we’ve done testings with those APIs as well.

AA 4x - DirectX 10

- 1920 x 1200 - 46
- 1680 x 1050 - 51
- 1280 x 1024 - 62

AA 4x - DirectX 10.1

- 1920 x 1200 - 47
- 1680 x 1050 - 53
- 1280 x 1024 - 62

World in Conflict

The tests were done with the internal game benchmark, with the very high resolution, anti-aliasing 4x and Anisotropic Filter 16x.

Values are expressed in FPS

- 1920 x 1200 - 25
- 1680 x 1050 - 27
- 1280 x 1024 - 33

Game Tests

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Batman: Arkham Asylum is one of the most recent, hyped games, developed by Eidos and capable of supporting the PhysX technology from nVIDIA. The impossibility of setting the Anti-Aliasing filter for ATI cards inside the game forces users to use the Catalyst drivers in order to force the 4x Anti-Aliasing.

Quality: Very High - AA 4x

- 1920 x 1200 - 61
- 1680 x 1050 - 75
- 1280 x 1024 - 97