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Review: AMD ATI Radeon HD 5850 single-card and multi-GPU evaluation

by Tarinder Sandhu on 30 September 2009, 15:16 4.3

Tags: Radeon HD 5850, AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Enemy Territory: QW - 1,680x1,050 4xAA 16xAF
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire HD 4870 X2 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
118.57107.3117.8798.37120.57160.03138.07


Enemy Territory: QW - 1,920x1,200 4xAA 16xAF
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire HD 4870 X2 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
99.588.8398.283.17105.87137.6117.1


Enemy Territory: QW - 2,560x1,600 4xAA 16xAF
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire HD 4870 X2 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
64.8356.261.9353.2773.5392.576.93


The OpenGL test shows the card to be faster than both price-comparable NVIDIA GPUs and some 22 per cent faster than a pre-overclocked Radeon HD 4890 1,024MB card. In fact, the HD 5870 is less than 20 per cent faster, putting the HD 5850's speed into context.