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Review: Double trouble: Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 in CrossFireX

by HEXUS Staff on 14 October 2009, 06:00 4.1

Tags: Win 7 - Radeon HD 5770 1GB XF, AMD (NYSE:AMD), Sapphire, ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD)

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H.A.W.X, plus power-draw

H.A.W.X - 1,680x1,050 4xAA 0xAF
Sapphire HD 5770 XFATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBXFX GTX 260 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire HD 5770 1GBXFX GTX 260 SLIBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
97736254.567.574.552.510410682.5


H.A.W.X - 1,920x1,200 4xAA 0xAF
Sapphire HD 5770 XFATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBXFX GTX 260 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire HD 5770 1GBXFX GTX 260 SLIBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
8465.554.545556546868674.5


H.A.W.X - 2,560x1,600 4xAA 0xAF
Sapphire HD 5770 XFATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBXFX GTX 260 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire HD 5770 1GBXFX GTX 260 SLIBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
59.547.535.5273645.532.553.559.556


Another excellent showing for multi-GPU setups. We can surmise that the Radeon HD 5770 is simply more efficient at cutting through workloads than the HD 5870, evinced by the higher scores at all three resolutions.

The assertion is indirectly confirmed by viewing the Radeon HD 4890 and HD 5850 numbers; the newer card, on paper, is much faster, yet the H.A.W.X benchmarks indicate otherwise.

Power-draw

Power consumption - idle (system)
Sapphire HD 5770 XFATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBXFX GTX 260 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire HD 5770 1GBXFX GTX 260 SLIBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
11410212713212315098171154100


Power consumption - load (3D)
Sapphire HD 5770 XFATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBXFX GTX 260 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire HD 5770 1GBXFX GTX 260 SLIBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
266199267255299241165367349224


Combined idle and load power-draw is higher than a single HD 5870's but significantly lower than the green-sided competition, to the tune of 101W when compared against also-two-card GeForce GTX 260.