AMD Radeon 6570 512MB Graphics Card Review

Final ThoughtsGoing back to our initial introduction for this review, we weren’t overly enthusiastic, and if you have a plethora of higher end cards sitting next to it, I don’t think you would be that excited either, but the 6570 was quite surprising.

We assumed that from it’s price point of around £40 that its performance would be similar to that of the 6450, but in most of the benchmarks its performance was well over double that. This goes to show that you can’t always judge a book by its cover and that’s why sites like eTeknix are here, to dispel myths and to give you the true facts of performance.

In some tests, we saw a close relationship with the 6670, which can be had for around £10-£15 more, to obtain that slightly better performance, but for another £10-£15 more, you could get the next card, and the next until you finally end up with a 6990. Simple advice for this would be to set a budget and to find your needs and wants out before making the plunge.

If you’re a user with HTPC usage in mind, then this card would be perfect for that, but with the recent release of AMD’s new LYNX platform running Llano based APU’s, we kind of feel that cards like this will end up a bit redundant, but for users wanting a quick boost of performance and an upgrade from older DirectX 9 and 10 based cards, we can see why it would fit into the market place for that.

Pros:

• Reasonably cheap
• Low-profile functionality
• Variety of connections
• DirectX 11
• Can handle HD content

Cons:

• £15 more gets you a card with slightly better performance
• ATI branding?