January 14th, 2010 marked the beginning of AMD's assault on the largest market in discrete GPUs - the mainstream segment. AMD's sweet spot strategy has delivered Cypress and Juniper core graphics cards - now Redwood stands tall, ready to bring DirectX 11 and Eyefinity to the masses.

Price breakdown

AMD tell us, based on data gathered by Mercury Research, that approximately 66% of active gamers out there use sub $100USD graphics cards, and 90% use a display resolution of less than 1920x1200. The Redwood XT, or AMD ATI Radeon HD 5670 to use its full name, is designed to hit three key consumer wants:

• Easy upgrade to higher performance

• All purpose - Gaming, Video, Productivity

• Value - New cutting edge open standards based technology

AMD ATi Radeon HD 5670

Product Highlights

• $100USD MSRP

• 775MHz 40nm Redwood core

• 627M Transistors

• 5 SIMD / 400 Stream Processors

• 20 Texture Units / 8 ROP's

• 512MB or 1GB GDDR5 @ 1000Mhz (4Gbps)

• 15W idle / 70W load

• DirectX 11 / 4 display Eyefinity

Join Rage3D as we look at the Redwood architecture, and throw it to the wolves against some hefty last-gen competition.