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AMD Radeon 6570 512MB Graphics Card Review

I’m going to start things off on a bad note, as you may or may not know, we took a look at the AMD Radeon 6450 not so long ago, and it was great for the general usage tasks and HTPC purposes but it didn’t really get our blood pumping, but it was never really set out to do that in the first place.

Today we are looking at another similar card, but with a slight bit more power, but still not enough to excite us massively. Now we love looking at the latest, fastest components that only a handful of people can afford, and because we get to have a play with it, we tend to forget the bigger picture and the mass audience that is the mainstream market.

After this realisation, we felt it were necessary to show you the potential performance for the slightly faster Radeon 6570, though you will see straight away that it seems AMD have gone back in time on this one. Can you spot what we’re talking about?

Specifications

650 MHz engine clock
512MB-2GB DDR3 or 512MB-1GB GDDR5 memory
900 MHz (DDR3) or 1000 MHz (GDDR5) memory clock (1.8 Gbps DDR3 or 4.0 Gbps GDDR5)
28.8 GB/s (DDR3) or 64 GB/s (GDDR5) memory bandwidth
624 GFLOPS Single Precision compute power
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
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480 Stream Processing Units
24 Texture Units
32 Z/Stencil ROP Units
8 Color ROP Units

[*]128-bit DDR3/GDDR5 memory interface
[*]PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
[*]DirectX® 11 support

OpenGL 4.1 support
Image quality enhancement technology
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Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
Adaptive anti-aliasing
Morphological anti-aliasing (MLAA)
16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
128-bit floating point HDR rendering

[/list][*]AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology¹

Native support for up to 4 simultaneous displays
Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
Display grouping
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Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display

[/list][*]AMD App Acceleration²

UVD 3 dedicated video playback accelerator
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MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
VC-1
MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
Multi-View Codec (MVC)
MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, xVid)
Adobe Flash

[*]Enhanced video quality features

Advanced post-processing and scaling
Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)
Independent video gamma control
Dynamic video range control

[*]Dual-stream HD (1080p) playback support
[*]DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
[/list][*]AMD HD3D technology⁴

Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
Blu-ray 3D support
Stereoscopic 3D gaming
3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support

[*]AMD CrossFireX multi-GPU technology⁵

Dual GPU scaling

[*]Cutting-edge integrated display support

DisplayPort 1.2
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Max resolution: 3840×2400
Multi-Stream Transport
21.6 Gbps bandwidth
High bit-rate audio

[*]HDMI 1.4a with Stereoscopic 3D Frame Packing Format, Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio

Max resolution: 1920×1200

[*]Dual-link DVI with HDCP

Max resolution: 2560×1600

[*]VGA

Max resolution: 2048×1536

[/list][*]Integrated HD audio controller

Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI or DisplayPort with no additional cables required
Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats

[*]AMD PowerPlay power management technology³