Posted on Monday, March 01 2010 @ 17:02 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Gigabyte is showing off a superoverclocked Radeon HD 5870 graphics card at CeBIT. Hexus
took a photo of the card and heard that it's "almost as fast" as the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970.
Outfitted with a custom cooler with inward-facing fans, the card is clocked in at 950MHz core and 5,000MHz GDDR5 memory, up from the default 850MHz/4,800MHz.
Due to be made available in the same week as NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 launches, Gigabyte reckons that the performance of the £370 GV-R587S0-1GD is 'close' to the twin-GPU Radeon HD 5970. We're not convinced by the bullish claims, but it will be interesting to see how it compares against NVIDIA's finest
