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Review: AMD ATI Radeon HD 5970 2,048MB graphics card: usurper of the throne

by Tarinder Sandhu on 18 November 2009, 05:00 4.0

Tags: ATI Radeon HD 5970, AMD (NYSE:AMD), ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD)

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 1,680x1,050 - 4xAA
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBATI Radeon HD 5970 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
89.0785.79137.490.98123.99101.6


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 1,920x1,200 - 4xAA
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBATI Radeon HD 5970 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
78.9876.42126.2979.01114.8790.67


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 2,560x1,600 - 4xAA
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBATI Radeon HD 5970 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
58.7752.73100.6855.4383.765.63


Comparison card Radeon HD 5870 1,024MB GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB
Percentage ahead at 2,560x1,600 53.5 20.3

The most-anticipated game of the year runs at a wonderfully lush 100fps at 2,560x1,600 with all the goodies turned on. That represents almost 2x the performance of the Radeon HD 5850 and, as you can see, healthy leads over the fastest cards before HD 5970 presented itself.