We recently presented you with some exclusive information on AMD’s coming Radeon HD 5830 to fill the gap between the Radeon HD 5700 and HD 5800 series. Today, AMD has made a greater launch by announcing its fourth Evergreen GPU, dubbed Redwood. The graphics circuit has 400 stream processors, which brings the theoretic performance down to a quarter of the Cypress GPU, but 4000MHz GDDR5 memory shows there is still potential.
The reviews posted so far shows that AMD has succeeded in finding a good balance between performance and price where performance is a lot better than the precursor Radeon HD 4670 and have no problem competing with and often outperform competing cards in the sub-$100 price range.
Performance isn’t enough for a complete gaming experience at 1080p, but at 1680×1050 pixel resolution the card is capable of playing most games and with DirectX 11, Eyefinity and a very energy efficient 40nm architecture it’s a very exciting card.
The card seems like an interesting game/HTPC hybrid with its support for bitstreaming of HD audio via HDMI and now we just need to see the card in stock to make sure prices remain competitive.
Reviews of Radeon HD 5670:
– Anandtech
– TechReport
– HotHardware
– Firingsquad
– HardwareCanucks
