HIS H567 models compared.

His made 3 different models with the Radeon HD5670 chip, all with the same fan and they all have the same specs except for the amount of memory, VGA or DisplayPort.

Here's a summey of the differences between the various models:

• Product Code H567Q512  - 512MB GDDR5 Memory, VGA
• Product Code H567Q1G   - 1GigaByte GDDR5 Memory, VGA
• Product Code H567Q1GD  - 1GigaByte GDDR5 Memory, DisplayPort

Bundle contents of model H567Q512: The video Card, Diver CD, User & quick install Guide and BumpTop, Kingdom of Gamers label.

Conclusion: A cheap and capable card, perhaps not a racemonster, but compared to the HD 5750 it will be about 50% cheaper, the stock cooling solution is great allthough it cannot compete to higher models. It's cheap, performs accordingly overclocks OK and the build quality is very good.

Compared to:

• Sapphire: HD 4770, HD5570, Vapor-X HD4850, HD4850 X2
• HIS: HD5750, HD5770, HD4850 & HD4890 iCooler, HD4870 IcQ4+.
• XFX: HD4770, HD5770, Black Edition 9800GTX+.

Test Setup: Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 Premium -- CPU: Intel QX9770 Extreme 3.2Ghz -- Memory: 2Gigabyte DDR2 Crucial PC-8500 Ballistix Tracer.

power consumption: The power draw of this card is 61 watts @full load, if you want to compare it to a bigger card: the HD5750 uses 86watt @full load.

Overclocking: A 100% stable overclock was found @915Mhz for the GPU core and the memory was OCed @1160Mhz, a 140Mhz core and 160Mhz DDR5 overclock, being an 18% and 16% increase which can be considered quite good.

Benchmarks: 3DMark Vantage, 3DMark2006, Half Life 2, Far Cry 2, Quake Wars: Enemy Territory, Devil May Cry 4, Crysis & Crysis WarHead, Heaven DirectX 11 Benchmark.