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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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Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2 - 1,680x1,050 4xAA 16xAF
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
80.43116.18158.44144.4109.886.91142.1861.7793.55172.33


Far Cry 2 - 1,920x1,200 4xAA 16xAF
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
69.4111.65142.71125.96101.4380.31124.8355.6481.1168.33


Far Cry 2 - 2,560x1,600 4xAA 16xAF
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
48.5694.73102.0886.8777.4161.9886.413657.42144.91


Comparison cards Radeon HD 5970 XF GeForce GTX 295 SLI
Percentage increase in multi-GPU mode at 2,560x1,600 67.7 52.7

Again, we'd be happy with any of the multi-GPU numbers at 2,560x1,600.