The Radeon 5870 Cooling Power
Back in 1965, Gordon E. Moore, one of Intel’s co-founder, said that transistors can b made to be economical if you just doubled the circuitry every other year. He already saw the change even before it happened and this makes him a genius who is way beyond his time.
Radeon has proven to its customers that the change is good. There’s a massive leap in the 40nm design. The new 5870 series boasts of double the power for its predecessors. It comes with 1600 SPUs, 80 TAUs and 32 ROPs. It also has the compute power of 2.72 TeraFLOPs out of just a single GPU. In terms of speed, it has increased from 750MHz to 850MHz. Nonetheless, it still utilizes the GDDR5 memory, but this is now clocked at 1200MHz because of the other improvements built into it. It also allows for a memory bandwidth of 153.6GB/s. That’s 33% more than the previous generation.
The Radeon HD 5870 is a powerful tool to have in your home. Its cooling system is an aluminum heatsink that is made up of 36 fins and measures of 13.5cm long, 6.5cm wide, and 2.5cm tall. There are 4 copper heat pipes connected to it to make it more efficient. There is also the 75x20mm blower fan that is able to suck in air from within the case before it pushes it out through the rear. You can be certain that the fan is much quieter than the previous Radeons. The low 27 watt idle has made all these possible. Plus, it has lowered your power consumption as well.
