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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amd did it again! WOW,..aren't we all shocked! lets see something out of their cpu line now! Ati's a life saver!!!
pity Toms forgot to include triple GTX285s
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.
All Hail ATi!!!
What a huge piece of tech!
Anyone else see the potential for a 5990 with GPUs shipped at 5870 speeds?
it even has solder points to make the 6pin into an 8pin PCIe power connector!
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??
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.
Awesome! cant wait to get my hands on one!
And still Crysis cannot be played at full detail with Aliasing / Filtering on as well @ 1080p...
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.
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
@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.
i wish i could buy it.
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
Woop jimb you are right! My second point stands though
From dictionary.com
1. Constituting a separate thing
adj.
1. Marked by, exercising, or showing prudence and wise self-restraint in speech and behavior; circumspect.
2. Free from ostentation or pretension; modest.
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!
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...
strictly for idiots.