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Gigabyte launches pre-overclocked Radeon HD 5670 1,024MB card

by Tarinder Sandhu on 15 January 2010, 10:58

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Hot on the heels of our review of the Radeon HD 5670 GPU, Gigabyte is launching two cards based on AMD's newest mid-range offering.

Available in 512MB and 1,024MB framebuffer sizes, the packages will start at around £70 and scale to £90 for the larger-capacity model.

Gigabyte will be factory-overclocking the 1,024MB part, GV-R567OC-1GI, from a default core speed of 775MHz to 785MHz. The memory-speed remains the same. We expect little real-world performance increase from the OC GPU, though. 


Equipped with a dual-slot cooler and outputs that encompass HDMI, dual-link DVI, and VGA, we should see the card crop up, in stock, at etailers in the coming week. Given what we said in our review, the pricing needs to drop by around 20 per cent for the Radeon HD 5670 1,024MB to make sense.

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Posted by Methanoid - Fri 15 Jan 2010 12:12
There should be a law saying that a 1.29% overclock doesnt even COUNT as an overclock. I mean it mfrs can alter their 33mhz bus speeds to 33.2mhz whilst still calling it 33 then this def doesnt count as an overclocked card.

For shame Gigabyte!!
Posted by miniyazz - Fri 15 Jan 2010 16:03
Methanoid
There should be a law saying that a 1.29% overclock doesnt even COUNT as an overclock. I mean it mfrs can alter their 33mhz bus speeds to 33.2mhz whilst still calling it 33 then this def doesnt count as an overclocked card.

For shame Gigabyte!!

It's actually less than that because that figure assumes the only thing that can be overclocked is the core, when in fact it should be an average overclock, of sorts, of the core, shaders and memory clocks!
Posted by Meaker - Fri 15 Jan 2010 23:35
They don't advertise it on the box by the looks of things.

It may just be a trick so that in reviews it always comes out on top in direct comparisons.
Posted by trance_ga - Mon 18 Jan 2010 08:43
Meaker
They don't advertise it on the box by the looks of things.

It may just be a trick so that in reviews it always comes out on top in direct comparisons.

Sounds like cheeky marketing spin if they aint using it on the box but are in reviews and features!