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Review: AMD ATI Radeon HD 5850 single-card and multi-GPU evaluation

by Tarinder Sandhu on 30 September 2009, 15:16 4.3

Tags: Radeon HD 5850, AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Crysis

Crysis - 1,680x1,050 4xAA (Enthusiast)
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire HD 4870 X2 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
26.9620.5122.4723.1927.6832.9831.82


Crysis - 1,920x1,200 4xAA (Enthusiast)
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire HD 4870 X2 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
22.1116.3218.1419.4524.1323.7826.07


Crysis - 2,560x1,600 4xAA (Enthusiast)
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire HD 4870 X2 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
12.678.129.4711.0813.7811.0314.49


Running the enthusiast setting and then adding 4x AA into the mix, Crysis simply hammers all the cards; it's barely playable at 1,680x1,050, let alone the higher resolutions.