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Review: Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 in two-card CrossFireX

by Tarinder Sandhu on 18 November 2009, 13:00 3.85

Tags: Win 7 - Radeon HD 5970 XF, AMD (NYSE:AMD), Sapphire, ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD)

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Crysis

Crysis - 1,680x1,050 4xAA (Enthusiast)
XFX Radeon HD 5850 1GBBFG GTX 295 SLISapphire HD 5870 XFXFX HD 5850 XFBFG GTX 285 SLIBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GBSapphire HD 5970 XF
26.9641.3847.2244.0442.3131.6842.6722.4731.8239.75


Crysis - 1,920x1,200 4xAA (Enthusiast)
XFX Radeon HD 5850 1GBBFG GTX 295 SLISapphire HD 5870 XFXFX HD 5850 XFBFG GTX 285 SLIBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GBSapphire HD 5970 XF
22.1136.9241.636.5434.5822.8136.8218.1426.0733.13


Comparison cards Radeon HD 5970 XF GeForce GTX 295 SLI
Percentage increase in multi-GPU mode at 1,920x1,200 -9.95 61.8

Crysis has always been something of a benchmarking anomaly. The 2,560x1,600 test crashes out on both four-GPU setups - GTX 295 and HD 5970 XF - so the numbers aren't graphed. Further, performance actually goes down for the top-of-the-line Radeon cards at 1,920x1,200.