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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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System setup and notes

Graphics cards BFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB BFG GeForce GTX 285 1,024MB  BFG GeForce GTX 275 896MB  XFX GeForce GTX 260 896MB SLI XFX GeForce GTX 260 896MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1,024MB ATI Radeon HD 5850 1,024MB  Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 1,024MB XF Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 1,024MB Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 OC 1,024MB
Current pricing, including VAT £346 £240 £160 £256 £128 £299
 £199 £250 £125 £140
Shader model 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.1
Stream processors 480 240 240 432 216 1,600 1,440 1,600 1,600 800
GPU clock speed (MHz) 576 648 633 576 576 850 725 850 850 901
Shader clock speed (MHz) 1,242 1,476 1,404 1,242 1,242 850 725 850 850 901
Memory clock speed (MHz) 2,016 2,484 2,312 1,998 1,998 4,800 4,000 4,800 4,800 4,000
Memory bus width (bits) 896 512 448 448 (896 combined) 448 256 256 256 128 256
CPU Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition (3.20GHz, 8MB L3 cache, quad-core, LGA1366)
Motherboard Foxconn Bloodrage X58
Motherboard BIOS P08
Mainboard software Intel Inf 9.1.1.1015
Memory 6GB Corsair DOMINATOR PC12,800
Memory timings and speed 9-9-9-24 1T @ DDR3-1,333
PSU Corsair HX1000W
Monitor Dell 30in 3007WFP - 2,560x1,600px
Disk drive(s) Seagate 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 (3Gb/s mode)
Graphics driver ForceWare 190.62 ForceWare 190.62 ForceWare 190.62 ForceWare 190.62 ForceWare 190.62 Catalyst 9.9 press Catalyst 9.9 press Catalyst 9.9 press Catalyst 9.9 press Catalyst 9.9
Operating system Windows 7 RTM Ultimate, 64-bit

Software

3D Benchmarks Call of Duty: World at War v1.5.1220 HEXUS custom-recorded benchmark: DX9 - maximum detail
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X v1.2, internal benchmark: DX10/10.1 - very high quality
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars v1.5, HEXUS custom-recorded benchmark. OpenGL - very high quality
Far Cry 2 v1.03 - very high quality
Race Driver: GRID v1.2, HEXUS custom-recorded benchmark - ultra quality
Crysis v1.1.1.711 - train map - enthusiast quality

Notes

We're now testing all video cards with Windows 7 RTM Ultimate 64-bit. Updating the gaming suite, Call of Duty: World at War and Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X are included.  H.A.W.X enables the use of DX10.1 code-path and we've used it for AMD-based cards. Internal testing has shown it to be significantly faster than running DX10, and the benchmarks will show that.

Crysis is also included, so get ready for super-low frame-rates. We've tested with the enthusiast settings on the train map, benchmarked via FRAPS.

We've thrown in a couple of GeForce GTX 260s in SLI, positioned as direct competitors.

Benchmarks were conducted at 1,680x1,050, 1,920x1,200, and 2,560x1,600 with the maximum in-game detail.




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