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£269.99It's no mystery that ATI have hit Nvidia hard with their latest generation of graphics card. Having released their entire line-up of DX11 cards before the competition could even enter the market is testament to a revolutionized work ethic that...
The ASUS EAH5850 DirectCU TOP is an excellent graphics card. Some could say that the HD5850 is a crippled version of the high end HD5870 and that the former should not be considered in the same league. But our results today show that the difference be...
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The HD 5850 may be getting on a bit in terms of age but this hasn’t stopped ATI’s board partners from fine tuning the design. ASUS has now released their DirectCU TOP version that aims to simply be one of the best HD 5850 card available but in such a...
It is great to see ATI’s board partners still releasing products which breathe new life into the HD 5800-series. By now, the HD 5850 really should be showing its age and yet here it is in overclocked form breathing down the neck of the GTX 470 which wa...
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The ASUS EAH5850 TOP, also known as the EAH5850 DirectCU TOP/2DIS/1GD5 (phew!) comes with 1 GB GDDR5, pre-overclocked, and with a custom cooling solution that promises to lower temperature by 20% and noise level by 35% than the AMD stock cooler. Let’s...
In most games and simulations we’ve ran, the ASUS EAH5850 TOP achieved performance similar to the standard Radeon HD 5850. The times it was faster, the advantage wasn’t of statistical relevance. The reviewed model from ASUS was up to 7% faster than the...
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ASUS EAH5850 TOP is a very interesting lower high-end solution. It has 10% higher clock rates, which actually provide 5% more performance. However, this solution can also be overclocked (extremely, too), because...
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Video cards are known for their upgrade cycles of every year or two a new generation video card is released followed by a refresh cycle based upon that first release then a new generation bringing new features to the mix. Last year in September, ATI l...
The ASUS EAH5850 DirectCU TOP/2DIS/1GD5 video card has several things going for it that other HD 5850 cards do not have. First feature is the DIRECTCU copper heatpipes that are in direct contact with the graphics chip. This allows the card to run much...
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Custom cards are coming back into fashion with the latest ATI Radeon 5000 series products. However, custom cards are not always better than their stock counterparts. Does the Direct CU provide a benefit compared to normal Radeon 5850s, or is it anothe...
The ASUS Radeon 5850 Direct CU is a very, very impressive card. The overclock which could be achieved with it was stunning. It would be nice to have a Radeon 5870 to compare it to, because at these clock speeds the Radeon 5850 should be able to...
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pcstats.com Updated:
2011-09-25 17:34:20
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The Radeon HD 5850 is ATI's videocard of choice for the gamer on a budget. It takes over where last generation's price/performance darling, the Radeon HD 4850, left off. It's also happens to be in the highest echelon of AMD's new Vision platform initi...
The Radeon HD 5850 is a winner for both ATI and enthusiasts. It's the rare videocard that manages to balance price, 3D performance, features and power usage, resulting in a total package that will satisfy almost any gaming enthusiast. ATI's RV870 GPU...
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At the end of September ATI Launched the Radeon HD 5850 video card, and by all accounts it has been a hit. It was launched at the right time and at the right price, making it a runaway success. Of course, the downside of buying just below the highes...
The ASUS EAH5850 TOP is an incredible value for the gamer wanting to play the latest games. With a "modest" $339 price tag, a custom GPU cooler, and overclocking performance that gives the $500 cards a run for their money, this card should be on ever...
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With ATI's great lineup of 5xxx GPUs, companies like Asus have decided to release a 2nd wave of cards featuring improved cooling, voltage options and much more. These added features make the already great line of 5xxx GPUs even better. Today we will b...
Aftermarket cooler, -Voltage options, -6pin and 8pin...
Only 1 DVI port...
In conclusion this card performed well above our expectations. Asus has implemented lots of really great and extremely useful features into this card. Starting with the aftermarket cooler, this card runs extremely cool for a high end GPU but also at t...
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When a new product gets launched we always see a bunch of reference designs that change in nothing but the sticker for a while. Gradually as the product matures we start to see factory overclocked models and eventually ones with non-reference coolers.T...
Phew. That was a lot of testing.One of the things that became apparent very quickly was that the extra headroom allowed by the better cooling, which gave a better overclock, meant this was definitely going to come out on top. In some ways that made testin...
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The Radeon 5850 is not a new graphics card, as it has been out for awhile now. However, we're now starting to see board partners produce non-reference solutions, whether custom heatsinks, overclocked versions, voltage tweaks, and so forth. This is wher...
It is often difficult to pick a specific graphics card model by manufacturer. We hear it constantly in the forums: "Should I buy Brand X or Brand Y for this card?" In each instance, we try to be as objective as possible, pointing out the various differ...
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A few months ago AMD released their new Radeon HD 5800 Series of graphics cards which quickly became a big success due to the numerous improvements made over previous generations. Up to recently all cards available from all manufacturers were reference...
Overclocked out of the box, Justified price, Very quiet in idle and load, Software voltage control, Native HDMI output, GDDR5 memory, DirectX 11 support, Increased Overdrive limits, Black PCB and cooler look good, Support for AMD EyeFinity Technology, Nat...
Higher power draw than HD 5850 reference, Only one DVI output (HDMI to DVI adapter included though), Cooler not as visually pleasing as reference design cooler, DirectX 11 won't be relevant for quite a while, No support for CUDA / PhysX...
I can only applaud ASUS for their implementation of their EAH5850 TOP DirectCU. The card performed flawlessly in almost all our tests. The included overclock out of the box can give the card a performance boost of about 3% which is justified considerin...
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