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Review: Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB Vapor-X graphics card: the best in the world?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 3 November 2009, 07:28 4.0

Tags: Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X, Sapphire

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Call of Duty: World and War, and Enemy Territory

Call of Duty: WaW - 1,680x1,050 4xAA 16xAF
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X 1GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
119.6116.95127.25106.45146.1156.55141.9


Call of Duty: WaW - 1,920x1,200 4xAA 16xAF
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X 1GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
101.95101109.1591.25125.2143.85121.8


Call of Duty: WaW - 2,560x1,600 4xAA 16xAF
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X 1GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
68.6565.671.5558.9585.05101.6582.6


Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Enemy Territory: QW - 1,680x1,050 4xAA 16xAF
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X 1GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
118.57107.3117.8798.37140.97160.03138.07


Enemy Territory: QW - 1,920x1,200 4xAA 16xAF
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X 1GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
99.588.8398.283.17119.5137.6117.1


Enemy Territory: QW - 2,560x1,600 4xAA 16xAF
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GBXFX GeForce GTX 275 896MBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire HD 4890 OC 1GBSapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X 1GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
64.8356.261.9353.2778.7592.576.93


The performance increases over the reference card are minimal, at around three percent, but they're in-line with what we'd expect when raising clocks from 850MHz/4,800MHz to 870MHz/5,000MHz.