While waiting for NVIDIA to present its counter move with Fermi, AMD continues to fill every market segment with new graphics cards. Last week it introduced the new entry level card ATI Radeon HD 5450 and now it is time for the first card of the Radeon HD 5500 series. ATI Radeon HD 5570 is simply a reduced version of Radeon HD 5670 as the card is based on the Redwood GPU and ships with 400 stream processors.
But to make sure AMD isn’t competing against itself and especially the Radeon HD 5670 the clock frequencies have been lowered and the memory swapped for older DDR3 memory. This means that the card is slower and has considerably worse memory bandwidth, and this becomes quite obvious in games and 3D benchmarks.
The advantages is a more efficient graphics circuit with lower power consumption and low profile design, which makes it perfect for smaller cases. The price is around 80e in stores and suffers from a small identity crisis as the performance is quite not enough for budget gamers and at the same time the price is a bit high for the HTPC environment, considering the Radeon HD 5450.
More extensive comments on Radeon HD 5570 can be found in the reviews below;
