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HIS Radeon HD 5570 Fan Video Card Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: March 11, 2010
Page: 12 of 12
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Conclusions

We always wonder why chip manufacturers release so many graphics chips with prices that are too close. In our opinion this only causes confusion on the market, and the manufacturer invariably ends up having several chips that have inferior performance and should be avoided.

Unfortunately this is the case of Radeon HD 5570. From the six games and simulations we ran, GeForce GT 240 was better than Radeon HD 5570 in four of them. If the difference was small, we could say that they are “equal competitors,” but this is not the case: GeForce GT 240 was between 14% and 64% faster than Radeon HD 5570 on these games and simulations, depending on the resolution and image quality settings. For only five bucks more you get a lot more performance buying GT 240.

On the other hand, Radeon HD 5570 was faster than GeForce GT 240 on Crysis Warhead (33%) and on the Tropics simulation (between 17% and 29%). So it may exist other games that Radeon HD 5570 is a better product, but at least based on our results we would simply forget Radeon HD 5570 and buy GeForce GT 240.

Important: there are several different GeForce GT 240 models on the market, with different hardware configurations. We are talking about the GDDR5 model (see table on first page).

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