Final thoughts and rating
We believe that the Radeon HD 6570 GDDR5 is the cheapest proper gaming card from AMD's newest range of GPUs. Benchmarks show that it closely follows the performance laid down by a last-generation HD 5670 while beating NVIDIA's GeForce GT 430 and GT 440.
Sapphire's £55 model packs in just 512MB of GDDR5 memory but backs it up with an extended frame-buffer, made available via system RAM, through AMD's Hyper Memory technology. The upshot of such an approach means that, more than the average FPS, games feel nice and smooth at medium-quality settings; there are no obvious performance drop-offs as complex scenes are drawn.
Sweetening the deal, the card is practically silent at idle and under load, while power-draw is the best in its class. There's a lot to like in this tidy package that should be viewed as a first-step upgrade if you're running either integrated graphics or a much older (PCIe) card in your system. Recommended.
The Good
Oh so quiet
Hyper Memory works well
Excellent power-draw levels
A solid upgrade from an IGP
The Bad
Nitpicking somewhat, it could do with being a single-slot design
HEXUS Rating
Sapphire Radeon HD 6570 512MB GDDR5 HM
HEXUS Awards
Sapphire Radeon HD 6570 512MB GDDR5 HM
HEXUS Where2Buy
The card is available to purchase from Ebuyer.com.
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