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PowerColor PCS+ Radeon HD 5870 graphics card review

by Tarinder Sandhu on 16 February 2010, 15:47 3.6

Tags: PowerColor PCS+ HD5870 1GB GDDR5, PowerColor (6150.TWO)

Quick Link: HEXUS.net/qavqv

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System setup and notes

Graphics cards Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 PowerColor PCS+ Radeon HD 5870  Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X Sapphire Radeon HD 5870  BFG GeForce GTX 295  BFG GeForce GTX 285 
Current pricing, including VAT £530 £360 £360 £320
 £370 £285
Shader model 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.0 4.0
Stream processors 3,200 1,600 1,600 1,600 480 240
GPU clock speed (MHz) 725 875 870 850 576 648
Shader clock speed (MHz) 725 875 870 850 1,242 1,476
Memory clock speed (MHz) 4,000 4,900 5,000 4,800 2,016 2,484
Memory bus width (bits) 512 256 256 256 896 512
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 9.1.0.1015
Memory 6GB Corsair DOMINATOR PC12,800
Memory timings and speed 9-9-9-24 1T @ DDR3-1,333
PSU Corsair HX850W
Monitor Dell 30in 3007WFP - 2,560x1,600px
Disk drive(s) Seagate 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 (3Gb/s mode)
Graphics driver 5970 press driver (Cat 9.11) Catalyst 10.1 Catalyst 9.9 Catalyst 9.10 ForceWare 195.39 ForceWare 195.39
Operating system Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit

Software

3D Benchmarks Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - DX9 - very high quality - FRAPS
Crysis v1.1.1.711 - train map - enthusiast quality
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars v1.5, HEXUS custom-recorded benchmark. OpenGL - very high quality
Far Cry 2 v1.03 - very high quality
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X v1.2, internal benchmark: DX10/10.1 - very high quality

Notes

The PowerColor card is clocked in a fraction higher than the Sapphire's Vapor-X on the core but loses out some 100MHz on the memory. Performance should be similar, then.

Benchmarks are conducted at 1,680x1,050, 1,920x1,200, and 2,560x1,600 with the maximum in-game detail. Power-draw, temperatures, and overclocking are considered, too.

We'll also see what difference three driver revisions have on performance.

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