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Review: Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 TOXIC 4GB: explosive single-card performance

by Parm Mann on 22 April 2010, 14:00 4.0

Tags: Radeon HD 5970 TOXIC 4GB, Sapphire

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Crysis Warhead

The one game that brings all GPUs to their knees, Crysis is set to Enthusiast quality and FRAPS'd through the train map.

Benchmarks

Crysis Warhead tends to be a mixed bag, and though it doesn't always reflect a GPU's true ability, it shows Sapphire's Radeon HD 5970 TOXIC 4GB in a positive light.

It's the first single graphics card - albeit with two GPUs - able to offer playable framerates at 2,560x1,600 with enthusiast settings. Sapphire's card is comfortably ahead of a stock Radeon HD 5970, and Crysis clearly doesn't scale well in two-card CrossFire configurations.

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 480 in SLI scales surprisingly well and offers the best overall Crysis Warhead performance, at a cost of around £80 more than Sapphire's best.