ASUS EAH5850 TOP Video Card Review

Posted By Gabriel Torres on Sep 22, 2010 in Video

Introduction

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 check it out.

The Radeon HD 5850 is a DirectX 11 graphics chip, and in the table below we compare the main specifications of the six video cards we included in our review. The EAH5850 TOP model from ASUS comes with a 5.5% GPU overclocking and a 12.5% memory overclocking.

Video Card	Core Clock	Shader Clock	Memory Clock (Real)	Memory Clock (Effective)	Memory Interface	Memory Transfer Rate	Memory	Shaders	DirectX
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB)	675 MHz	1,350 MHz	900 MHz	3,600 MHz	192-bit	86.4 GB/s	768 GB GDDR5	336	11
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB)	675 MHz	1,350 MHz	900 MHz	3,600 MHz	256-bit	115.2 GB/s	1 GB GDDR5	336	11
GeForce GTX 465	607 MHz	1,215 MHz	801.5 MHz	3,206 MHz	256-bit	102.6 GB/s	1 GB GDDR5	352	11
Radeon HD 5830	800 MHz	800 MHz	1 GHz	4 GHz	256-bit	128 GB/s	1 GB GDDR5	1,120	11
Radeon HD 5850	725 MHz	725 MHz	1 GHz	4 GHz	256-bit	128 GB/s	1 GB GDDR5	1,440	11
ASUS EAH5860 TOP	765 MHz	765 MHz	1,125 MHz	4.5 GHz	256-bit	144 GB/s	1 GB GDDR5	1,440	11

You can compare the specs of these video cards with other video cards by taking a look at our AMD ATI Chips Comparison Table and NVIDIA Chips Comparison Table tutorials.

Now let’s take a complete look at this model from ASUS.

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