Testurteil: "7/10"
Test: Einzeltest: Asus Matrix Radeon HD 5870 Graphics Card
Zitat: The Asus Matrix HD 5870 is a good looking card with a number of added extras - it’s certainly in line with the rest of the RoG line. It’s also one of the most expensive HD 5870s around, so we expected it to do something special to justify its price tag. Unfortunately it doesn’t really deliver. Yes, it´s a great overclocker, and being able to adjust the voltages of the card through the Tracker 2 software is a genuinely useful feature, but at the end of the day the HD 5870 GPU just doesn’t gain that much from a 150MHz overclock. This means that the Matrix offers little over a stock HD 5870, a travesty given that it costs £80 more than standard cards. The card could potentially gain favour in extreme overclocking circles, where the voltage readout points and flexible memory timings are useful, but for everyday use, a standard HD 5870 is £80 cheaper and 95 per cent as good. If someone is forcing you to spend £400 on a graphics card (you poor thing), then the GTX 480 is also worth considering - beware the heat, noise and excessive power consumption, though, as these are significant turn-offs.