Benchmark Results: Crysis

05:10 - Wednesday 18 November 2009 by Chris Angelini

Crysis actually shows the 5970 coming close to a pair of 5870s—then again, the Radeon HD 5850s in CrossFire aren’t far behind either. What you will find further behind is Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 295.

Adding 8xAA to the mix results in similar pecking order. Almost universally, 2560x1600 is off-limits with any of these configurations. The Radeon HD 5970 just about makes 1900x1200 accessible with Very High detail settings, though.  

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adlertheman 18/11/2009 07:29
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amd did it again! WOW,..aren't we all shocked! lets see something out of their cpu line now! Ati's a life saver!!!

tinnerdxp 18/11/2009 09:26
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pity Toms forgot to include triple GTX285s

omegon 18/11/2009 09:53
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If they include triple GTX285s they will include 2 5970 aswell.

But the people who are gonna pay 1110$ for the gtx's or 1200$ for the dual 5970 really dont need the benchmarks, for them its a presitige to have this, so including them in this article is kinda useless.

staalkoppie 18/11/2009 12:33
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All Hail ATi!!! :) What a huge piece of tech!

mi1ez 18/11/2009 12:50
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Anyone else see the potential for a 5990 with GPUs shipped at 5870 speeds?

mi1ez 18/11/2009 12:52
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it even has solder points to make the 6pin into an 8pin PCIe power connector!

Dandalf 18/11/2009 14:50
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Can someone please explain to me why these graphics cards are referred to as 'discrete'? They're like the absolute least discrete components in my machine. Now that I mention it, why are they still called graphics cards and not graphics bricks??

Dandalf 18/11/2009 15:08
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And another question... are AMD aware that this card is bottlenecked by their fastest CPU? That means they are pretty much forcing customers who buy this to Intel .... what were they thinking??

AMD better put their foot down on those 6-core chips.

Marney_5 18/11/2009 16:11
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Awesome! cant wait to get my hands on one!

david__t 18/11/2009 17:09
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And still Crysis cannot be played at full detail with Aliasing / Filtering on as well @ 1080p...

barney stinsen 18/11/2009 18:47
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You know what is the best thing about this card? OMFG!!! 640 euros!! Now that, my friends, is the best feature AMD could have implemented!!!

P.S :640 Euros = 957.95200 U.S. dollars. But wait, this card is 660 U.S. dollars = 440.940673 Euros.


obsidian86 18/11/2009 19:20
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Dandalf :
Can someone please explain to me why these graphics cards are referred to as 'discrete'? They're like the absolute least discrete components in my machine. Now that I mention it, why are they still called graphics cards and not graphics bricks??


graphics mountains more like it

jimb06789 18/11/2009 21:11
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@Dandalf:

You seem to be confusing "discrete" with "discreet".

5970 is £574 at Novatech, I'm tempted but I'll wait for Nvidia's release.

jimishtar 18/11/2009 22:07
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i wish i could buy it.

redkachina 18/11/2009 22:31
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This beast make my GTX275 looks like little toy..*sigh* even a tri sli cant even be compared with it..time to break my piggy bank LoL

Dandalf 19/11/2009 03:16
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Woop jimb you are right! My second point stands though :D

SpidersWeb 19/11/2009 04:37
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From dictionary.com

Quote :dis·crete (d-skrt) adj.
1. Constituting a separate thing


Quote :dis·creet (d-skrt)
adj.
1. Marked by, exercising, or showing prudence and wise self-restraint in speech and behavior; circumspect.
2. Free from ostentation or pretension; modest.

SpidersWeb 19/11/2009 04:39
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Oh and the 5970 seems amazing. Out of my budget though, but then I'm happy with my 4850 which is considered weak sauce compared to these!

Rab1d-BDGR 19/11/2009 04:41
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Hey Tom's, along side the total wattage consumption you should also be stating how many Amps you need per +12v Rail to run these things...

Anonymous 19/11/2009 08:10
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strictly for idiots.


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