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Review: Double trouble: Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 in CrossFireX

by HEXUS Staff on 14 October 2009, 06:00 4.1

Tags: Win 7 - Radeon HD 5770 1GB XF, AMD (NYSE:AMD), Sapphire, ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD)

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Crysis

Crysis - 1,680x1,050 4xAA (Enthusiast)
Sapphire HD 5770 XFATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBXFX GTX 260 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire HD 5770 1GBXFX GTX 260 SLIBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
27.7226.9620.5116.5822.4723.1918.3531.5932.9831.82


Crysis - 1,920x1,200 4xAA (Enthusiast)
Sapphire HD 5770 XFATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBXFX GTX 260 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire HD 5770 1GBXFX GTX 260 SLIBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
22.7222.1116.3214.2318.1419.4515.0524.2923.7826.07


Crysis - 2,560x1,600 4xAA (Enthusiast)
Sapphire HD 5770 XFATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBXFX GTX 260 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire HD 5770 1GBXFX GTX 260 SLIBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
14.1112.678.127.379.4711.088.3211.411.0314.49


For fans of low-frame-rates, Crysis is the game to test.

Multi-GPU scaling isn't quite as impressive as in Call of Duty: WaW, rising 50 per cent at 1,920x1,200. NVIDIA dual-GTX 260 is faster here, too.

Still, the game, set to enthusiast, runs like a dog at pretty much every resolution.