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Review: Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 in two-card CrossFireX

by Tarinder Sandhu on 18 November 2009, 13:00 3.85

Tags: Win 7 - Radeon HD 5970 XF, AMD (NYSE:AMD), Sapphire, ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD)

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 1,680x1,050 - 4x AA
XFX Radeon HD 5850 1GBBFG GTX 295 SLISapphire HD 5870 XFXFX HD 5850 XFBFG GTX 285 SLIBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GBSapphire HD 5970 XF
89.07158.08157.88151.79151.27123.99137.490.98101.6161.97


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 1,920x1,200 - 4x AA
XFX Radeon HD 5850 1GBBFG GTX 295 SLISapphire HD 5870 XFXFX HD 5850 XFBFG GTX 285 SLIBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GBSapphire HD 5970 XF
78.98155.28147.94142.23140.11114.87126.2979.0190.67162.1


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 2,560x1,600 - 4x AA
XFX Radeon HD 5850 1GBBFG GTX 295 SLISapphire HD 5870 XFXFX HD 5850 XFBFG GTX 285 SLIBFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 285 1GBSapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GBSapphire HD 5970 XF
58.77137.04124.29103.88102.6383.7100.6855.4365.63155.42


Comparison cards Radeon HD 5970 XF GeForce GTX 295 SLI
Percentage increase in multi-GPU mode at 2,560x1,600 54.3 63.7

A single HD 5970 card is able to hit a lusty 100fps at 2,560x1,600, so having two is just greedy. Scaling, though, is pretty good on all fronts, adding at least 50 per cent to both AMD and NVIDIA's finest.