AMD plans to bring its ATI Radeon HD 5000-series architecture to the mid-range next week with the launch of its Radeon HD 5750 and Radeon HD 5770, codenamed Juniper.
Fortunately for those unwilling to wait, the cards appear to be making their way into the hands of Taiwanese users earlier than expected. This time last week, Taiwanese website mymypc.com unearthed shots of the Radeon HD 5750. Today, it's at it again with shots of ASUS' Radeon HD 5770 - and it's throwing in benchmarks, too.
The card, pictured above alongside the larger Radeon HD 5850 and larger-still Radeon HD 5870, features a GPU clocked at 800MHz, 800 stream processors and 1GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1,200MHz - assuming web-based reports are correct, of course.
Putting it through its paces, mymypc.com reckons it achieves a GPU score of 8,714 on 3DMark Vantage. In comparison, the existing AMD ATI Radeon HD 4890 was found to score 10,327 marks, whilst NVIDIA's competing GeForce GTX 260 scored 9,736.
Aside from DirectX 11 goodness, reasons for upgrading from a previous-generation card appear to be slim - particularly in the performance stakes. Keep in mind, however, that we can't comment on the authenticity of the above benchmarks - and we'll be delivering our official verdict next week. Stay tuned.
