"Wir fassen zusammen, dass wir mit mächtigen Überraschungen zu kämpfen hatten. AMD führt mit der HD 5870 die Dual-GPU-Umsetzung teils absolut ab adsurdum. Dieses Teil ist einfach nur rattenschnell, arbeitet im Idle-Betrieb mit unhörbarer Lautstärke und ist in der Leistungsaufnahme Idle- wie auch Last-Betrieb ein Glanzpunkt."

"Wenn Sie eine neue Grafikkarte suchen, dann können Sie bei der Radeon HD 5870 bedenkenlos zugreifen - eine bessere Karte gibt es derzeit nicht. Das Beste zum Schluss: Die UVP für die Radeon HD 5870 beträgt 349 Euro, während die HD 5850 mit nur 239 Euro zu Buche schlägt. Letztere macht sich momentan jedoch sehr rar."

"Die Radeon HD 5870 von ATi hat uns im Laufe dieses Tests insgesamt sehr gut gefallen, da ATi gut an den Kritikpunkten der vorherigen Generation gearbeitet hat. Die Performance erreicht zwar keine neuen Dimensionen, genügt aber eindeutig, der Karte das Prädikat „schnellsten Single-GPU-Grafikkarte auf dem Markt“ zu verleihen. Die Geschwindigkeit liegt in etwa auf dem Niveau einer Radeon HD 4870 X2, ohne jedoch die üblichen Multi-GPU-Nachteile mit sich zu bringen."

"Insgesamt ist die Radeon HD 5870 ein rundum gelungenes Paket. Viele neue Features, deutlich mehr Performance, leiser, deutlich weniger Stromverbrauch im Idle Mode und dazu für eine High End Karte auch noch mit 320 bis 340 Euro relativ moderat anvisierter Preis"

"Wrapping things up, for those of you who were expecting the 5870 to shake things up, the 5870 is certainly going to do that. For those of you looking for the above and a repeat of the RV770/GT200 launch where prices will go in to a freefall, you’re going to come away disappointed. That task will fall upon the 5850, and we’re looking forward to reviewing it as soon as we can."

"AMD definitely surprised me, and pretty much everybody else with their new products. I neither expected such a big performance increase, nor many of the other new features that AMD has put in their card. Looking at pure performance numbers, one has to admit that AMD did not claim the performance crown this time, their HD 4870 X2 and the NVIDIA GTX 295 are still faster. However, those are dual GPU cards, AMD's dual HD 5870 dubbed "Hemlock" will be out later this year to shatter all performance records we've seen so far."

"The new AMD Radeon HD 5870 is the fastest single-GPU graphics card you can purchase today and will likely remain that way through at least the end of the year. The new Evergreen core, with its 1600 shader processors and improved texturing power, is able to best the GT200 core that was dominating the HD 4800-series cards in every aspect except efficiency. Add to that mix support for DirectX 11 gaming and compute applications with new features like Eyefinity and you have all the makings of a fantastic product launch that will dominate the GPU market for months."

"Bottom line: we really like the Radeon HD 5870 for what it brings to the market. And that is leading Single-GPU performance, a massive feature set and a fair price. We ask you - what's not to like here?"

"The ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card is by far one of the most interesting products that we have had the chance to take a look at in 2009. The card appears to live up to the hype and is the real deal when it comes to performance on DirectX 9/10/10.1 game titles. We can only hope that it also performs just as well on DirectX 11 game titles as the Radeon 5800 series will be something that anyone upgrading to Windows 7 should be looking into"

"So that's our first HD 5870 and to be honest the card is a whole lot better than I expected it to be. The HD 5870 really had to do one thing; that was beat the GTX 285. The thing about that, though, is it had to do that one thing well. The good news? It does; it manages to do it very well. "

"Bottom line: AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850 represent solid advances in GPU technology. NVIDIA will need to bring excellence to every facet if it's to a launch a better-thought-out series of high-end GPU. "