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Review: Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 in CrossFireX: say hello to our little friends

by Parm Mann on 23 September 2009, 08:58 3.8

Tags: Radeon HD 5870 1,024MB, AMD (NYSE:AMD), Sapphire

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Benchmarks - part one

Call of Duty: World at War

Call of Duty 5: WaW - 2,560x1,600 4xAA 16xAF
Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 OCBFG GeForce GTX 285BFG GeForce GTX 295BFG GeForce GTX 285 SLIXFX GeForce GTX 275Sapphire Radeon HD 5870Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 XFSapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2
58.9571.55101.65121.3565.682.6123.4580.6

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Enemy Territory: QW - 2,560x1,600 4xAA 16xAF
Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 OCBFG GeForce GTX 285BFG GeForce GTX 295BFG GeForce GTX 285 SLIXFX GeForce GTX 275Sapphire Radeon HD 5870Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 XFSapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2
53.2761.9392.5113.2356.276.93134.9773.53

The raw power of two Radeon HD 5870s shows. There simply isn't a faster pairing of single-GPU cards out there, and scaling at 2,560x1,600 is decent for both the Radeon HD 5870 CrossFire and GeForce GTX 285 SLI configurations.