Re: Pos 5870 Driver Download
Lillia Iniguez
This is another article in our Benchmarking Series. I received my 5870 back in November, and worked through setting up my Eyefinity rig. I put the card through its paces in a set of benchmarks (some updated benchmarks in Win7) and a review of both the HD 5870 and Eyefinity.
Since that time, we've developed a closer relationship with ATI and are now on their PR rotation and receive review samples of their cards. Over the last couple of months ATI has released a number of new cards (5600, 5500, 5400, 5830, etc.), and put out monthly updates to the Catalyst drivers. The team at ATI sent me samples of the "mainstream" cards (56, 55 & 54) as they released, and filled in the gaps of already released products. With this I set about putting all the card through a series of benchmarks at key resolutions from 1680x1050 through 5760x1200.
Along the way I noticed that the HD 5830 and HD 5850 were beating some of the scores I had with my original HD 5870 benchmarks. Knowing that driver updates both add features and improve performance, I went ahead and re-tested the 5870 with the 10.3 Preview Driver. I found a number of instances where the newer drivers offer significantly better performance. My rig currently stands at:
All benchmarking is done with both CPU and GPU at stock clock speeds. Overclocking can get you better performance, and many parts like the i7-920 are great in this arena. However, not everyone is comfortable with overclocking, and I prefer to test hardware as it was manufactured and sold. Games are tested at max settings with 4xAA and 16xAF unless otherwise noted. Also, the built-in benchmark or demo is used unless otherwise noted.
Some titles such as Half-Life 2, and Grand Theft Auto IV saw no change in performance in the different driver revisions. Titles such as Battle Forge and Far Cry 2 (DX10) showed a consistent improvement of about 2fps across the resolutions. However, we see dramatic improvements in Batman: AA, Dirt 2, HAWX and the Night portion of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R Call of Pripyat demo.
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I have 3 monitors on this Graphic Card Radeon 5870. They all work fine in linux, but in windows altho ive installed the driver directly from the AMD website it just won't work. It actually worked but for some reason only 1 monitor at the time. The other 2 are detected but are dead. No video input or anything. I've even upgraded my OS to Windows 11 to see if it would fix it but the same problem persists.
The HD 5870 launched in 2009. It was moved to legacy status in 2015 which is also when the initial Windows 10 version 1507 released. The last AMD driver available is 15.7.1 which may not work correctly in later versions of Windows 10 especially releases 21H2 and 22H2 or Windows 11.
To continue using the HD 5870 with Windows 10 you may need to revert to an early (and now unsupported) version. In these cases when using legacy hardware with insecure operating systems I highly recommend air-gapping.
However it was a great card for its era and still can be with the right setup. I have one in a legacy gaming AM3 rig running Windows XP with an air gap. Perfect for playing those older games that won't run on newer OS.
It's all about the drivers, and they're 8 years old. Kinda surprised that Windows 11 upgrade even worked and it didn't give any errors or warnings about the display compatibility? If it's working in Linux you could switch to using that or go back to an earlier version of Windows 10.
The official said that the minimum operating environment for the graphics card is 660 meters, while my computer is 780 meters. However, it indicates that the graphics card driver is too old to run games (the graphics card driver is already the latest version supported by the official graphics card)
I've just upgraded my brothers Mac Pro 5,1 8-core with several items to speed up Final Cut Pro. Mainly SSDs and RAM. The part I thought was going to be the easiest doesn't seem to work at all. I installed a ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac graphics card upgrade but I don't get any love at all with either Apple screen. The specs say it should be compatible with a mid 2010 or early 2009 MP 5,1. I don't believe there were any discs with this item. I read online that OS 10.6.4 and later should have the drivers already installed. This MP is at 10.6.8.
When I tried to boot up, I could see the fan running on the card. I had the two power connectors providing power. The two Apple displays are connected via the mini port. They don't even try to come up. When I put the older ATI 5770 back in, all is well.
Another question that comes up... is this 5870 even worth it? The 5770 has the same amount of VRAM. I'm sure there is a speed difference, but is it really enough to justify the hassle for working with Final Cut Studio 3 and Photoshop mainly?
Given that you can order a mac pro with a 5870 you can be sure it is compatible with it. I am one who did order a macpro 5,1 with a 5870. And aside from the fact that the 5000 series cards (not just 5870) probably have the lousiest fans on the planet I have not had any problems with the 5870. But as I sort of alluded to I've gone through two of them and am on my third due to the fans no always working and the cards overheating.
Why doesn't it work? Not sure, unless it is because the 5870 you got was not the apple version of the 5870. That one is properly flashed for macs and has two mini-displayports and an dual link dvi port.
Finally, if you try to connect three moniotrs to the 5x70's there's certain rules you need to follow to do that. You cannot just plug in three monitors into the three ports and have it work (specifically you need at least two active adapters with three monitors).
Thanks for the reply. One tip I'll give you is to check the air vents for your card once a month or so. I had an old X1900 XT and didn't notice the dust had collected to form a perfectly smooth coating over the fins of the intake. It looked like metal, so I left it alone. Big mistake. A $1,000 mistake after replacing the logic board and power supply. The fans still sounded loud. I searched online and found someone else with the same issue and showed him with a brush removing the "metal" to reveal the intakes. After that, fans quieted down and that Mac Pro lasted for another five years before the CPUs gave out.
In my case it wasn't a air vent or dust problem. I keep the machine pretty clean. In the first case the machine was only about a month old before I discovered the fan wouldn't always start up (I assume couldn't overcome the starting friction). That card was replaced and in less than a year that second card's fan either wouldn't start up or would stop if it had started up (randomly, not always). The results of this is the card overheats and the machine does a thermal shutdown -- looks like it's sleeping except one fan on the rear is running to purge the heat. If you can detect the fan has stopped before the overheat you can tweak it with your finger to get it going again. So far so good on card number three (at least I am getting my money's worth with applecare). Keeping my fingers crossed, but one ready to tweak the fan, and I use iStat Menus to watch the temp on slot 1.
If tDEAD is set to non-zero and IN+ goes high after IN- goes low but before the dead time is up the STP fault will trigger if the fault is set to report. After reporting the STP fault the gate driver output will follow the fault action programmed in CFG3[FS_STATE_STP_FAULT]. The fault action can be set to pull the output high, low, or have no action. If set to no action the gate driver output will go high after tDEAD.
You can leave the fault report and set to no action if you would like the system to know if IN+ is going high before the programmed tDEAD expires. Alternatively you could set the STP to not report by programming CFG2[STP_FAULT_P] = 1b = Do not report. This can be done when both high side and low side gate drivers are interlocked through the hardware. The gate driver will introduce the programmed tDEAD to prevent shoot-through. Hope this helps.
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