Benchmark Results: H.A.W.X.
This was one of ATI’s banner DirectX 10.1 titles, and we’ve thus tested our ATI contenders with DirectX 10.1 enabled. But a single Radeon HD 5870 doesn’t quite exhibit the same exuberance we’ve seen in games like Far Cry 2 here. Instead, a single card barely outperforms Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 285 and is, in fact, beaten pretty badly by the Radeon HD 4870 X2 and GeForce GTX 295.
Although SLI does great things for the performance of two GeForce GTX 285s, CrossFire helps the 5870s even more, nearly doubling frame rates at each tested resolution. At the end of the day, a single Radeon HD 5870 doesn’t look very impressive here, but a pair of the cards serves up uncontested performance all the way through 2560x1600.
Improvements to anti-aliasing shine through with 8x turned on, and although a single Radeon HD 5870 doesn’t impress at 1680x1050 or 1920x1200, the jump to 2560x1600 sees every other card fall to below-playable levels, while the 5870 maintains more than 40 frames per second—not entirely bad in a flight simulator like this one.
Of course, the real magic happens when you add a second 5870 and see frame rates jump to 75.
Note the GeForce GTX 295’s missing score at 2560x1600—another instance where 896MB of GDDR3 memory per on-board GPU just isn’t enough to play such a demanding setting. It takes a graphics card with at least 1GB to make such a high resolution and anti-aliasing setting available, which is something the GeForce GTX 295 just can’t muster.
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anyone seen these in the uk?
now this is someting. cant wait to see what nvidia will come up with.
does this mean that the prices of existing 48xx cards will go down?
They are scheduled for release on the 25th in the UK according to major online retailers expected stock date.
check out novatech and ebuyer.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech [...] 800Series/
http://www.ebuyer.com/search?store [...] ubcat=2999
best price for 5870 £299.99 delivered ebuyer
My god the 4870x2 finally got a rival
Smooth gaming again!?!? YAY
available for pre order on scan.co.uk now £320
All those connectors are nice but first thing I thought when I first saw pictures was there is not enough vents on the backto cool that card properly. Hopefully some board partners will come up with versions with full PCI slot cooling. Eyfinity looks better, but all I need is two DVI connectors one for monitor and other for projector.
Now lets see what Nvidia brings out, lets hope something competitive in performance and price. I hope prices drop by Cristhmas to £200-259 for 5870
At guru3d they overclocked to 925 core/ 5400 memory could not go further because of temp problems. I wonder what would they do with better cooling. 1GHZ/6GHz?...Now that would be sweet.Link: http://www.guru3d.com/article/rade [...] ew-test/26
All those connectors are nice but first thing I thought when I first saw pictures was there is not enough vents on the backto cool that card properly. Hopefully some board partners will come up with versions with full PCI slot cooling.
Anandtech addressed this concern in their review: "As far as the 5870 is concerned, this is solid proof that the half-slot exhaust vent isn’t going to cause any issues with cooling."
Here's the source link to the above quotation.
Third time's the charm?
I have seen Anandtech's article, however they did hit 100C and started to throtle in /crossfire on Toms review and Guru3d temps limited overclocking so there is room for improvement in cooling.
Also I wonder if 2GB version would perform better at high resolutions with AA
No Crossfire? Really? What was ATI thinking releasing a top of the line video card that can't support a major feature set? One of the major selling points is that you can run 3 displays off this one card, yet you need to Crossfire two of these to get playable frame rates. Problem, you can't Crossfire these cards (yet?).
They should have dispensed with the third video connection in favor of extra ventilation, which it sounds like this card needs. If users are so gung ho about running 3 or more dispays, then wait for the Eyefinity card.
Glad to see ATI releasing a product that puts a boot up Nvidia's arse, but they shouldn't have released it without solving the Crossfire issue.
Must be mistake. Check benchmarks, they include crossfire results so it is working. They probably had the cards for some while for testing and started writing article and drivers did not support crossfire at the start and does support now. They just forgot to edit part of the article where it says that it does not support crossfire.
any word on when the 5670 is gonna come out
Yes, try www.overclockers.co.uk
£320 ouch, what a rip off and no Physx. I think this time round Nvidia's mid range card, the GTX360 will trounce all over this card from a great height.
£320 ouch, what a rip off and no Physx. I think this time round Nvidia's mid range card, the GTX360 will trounce all over this card from a great height.
Wow, 8 minutes before the first fanboi commentard...
As someone who holds allegiance with neither vendor -- both have a place in our house -- this looks great from a stirring-up the market perspective.
R.