H.A.W.X, and power-draw
| H.A.W.X - 1,680x1,050 4xAA 0xAF | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XFX Radeon HD 5850 1GB | BFG GTX 295 SLI | Sapphire HD 5870 XF | XFX HD 5850 XF | BFG GTX 285 SLI | BFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB | Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 2GB | BFG GeForce GTX 285 1GB | Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB | Sapphire HD 5970 XF |
| 73 | 163 | 146 | 127.5 | 128.5 | 105 | 125 | 67.5 | 82.5 | 194.5 |
| H.A.W.X - 1,920x1,200 4xAA 0xAF | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XFX Radeon HD 5850 1GB | BFG GTX 295 SLI | Sapphire HD 5870 XF | XFX HD 5850 XF | BFG GTX 285 SLI | BFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB | Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 2GB | BFG GeForce GTX 285 1GB | Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB | Sapphire HD 5970 XF |
| 65.5 | 149 | 132 | 113 | 113.5 | 93 | 111.5 | 55 | 74.5 | 188.5 |
| H.A.W.X - 2,560x1,600 4xAA 0xAF | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XFX Radeon HD 5850 1GB | BFG GTX 295 SLI | Sapphire HD 5870 XF | XFX HD 5850 XF | BFG GTX 285 SLI | BFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB | Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 2GB | BFG GeForce GTX 285 1GB | Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB | Sapphire HD 5970 XF |
| 47.5 | 113.5 | 98 | 84.5 | 79.5 | 64 | 82.5 | 36 | 56 | 169 |
| Comparison cards | Radeon HD 5970 XF | GeForce GTX 295 SLI |
| Percentage increase in multi-GPU mode at 2,560x1,600 | 104.8 | 77.3 |
There's something fishy with the two-card HD 5970 numbers. Theory tells us that adding double the GPU rendering power shouldn't result in more than 2x the performance, but the results were consistent over many runs.
Whatever the case, H.A.W.X scales very well on both high-end setups and, again, two HD 5850s beat out an HD 5970.
Power-draw
| Power consumption - idle (system) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XFX Radeon HD 5850 1GB | BFG GTX 295 SLI | Sapphire HD 5870 XF | XFX HD 5850 XF | BFG GTX 285 SLI | BFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB | Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 2GB | BFG GeForce GTX 285 1GB | Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB | Sapphire HD 5970 XF |
| 102 | 227 | 136 | 123 | 159 | 154 | 123 | 123 | 100 | 159 |
| Power consumption - load (3D) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XFX Radeon HD 5850 1GB | BFG GTX 295 SLI | Sapphire HD 5870 XF | XFX HD 5850 XF | BFG GTX 285 SLI | BFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB | Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 2GB | BFG GeForce GTX 285 1GB | Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB | Sapphire HD 5970 XF |
| 199 | 609 | 357 | 318 | 444 | 349 | 307 | 299 | 224 | 512 |
Idle power-draw is relatively good when compared to other high-end cards'. There's no getting around the under-load figures, which push system-wide juice above half a kilowatt. Still, the cards' performance is greater than the dual-GTX 295s and power-draw is around 100W lower.
