AMD's Radeon HD 5870: Bringing About the Next Generation Of GPUs
by Ryan Smith on September 23, 2009 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Dawn of War II
Dawn of War II is our other RTS benchmark. It’s among the more challenging games in our collection, leading to there being a definite cutoff for playability.
Here we are going to see the 5870’s other dominating performance of the day, as it crushes the 4870X2 and beats out the GTX 295. This game responds very poorly to CF/SLI, which means it’s really only a contest among single-GPU cards and the fastest multi-GPU cards. AMD’s cards in particular can’t get any traction, as Crossfire offers a minimal gain at best, and a performance loss at worse. This will be the only game where 5870 CF loses.
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pinguin - Monday, September 28, 2009 - link
It IS a hard launch as obviously a few cards are available. That consumers rip them off one's hand is another problem...Anyway I'll wait until the 5650: 4850 performance w/o PCIe connector + DX11: I'm coming! What else do I need to show off to my friends still staying with rebranded G92 chips!!
jabroni619 - Friday, September 25, 2009 - link
I guess it is, it was even better still when I decided to come home a bit early and UPS got there 2 hours sooner than they usually do. Playing through Crysis Warhead once more "The way it's meant to be played" on an ATI card though.Also included was a Dirt 2 code to be activated on steam, which I nearly threw out! Now I just have to wait for the game to be released.
camylarde - Thursday, September 24, 2009 - link
Lol. I was horrified, when i heard that my precious badminton racquet purchased on my friends address in england was "delivered" to the front door, waiting for him all day on the doorstep.if the card is gonna wait for you in a similar fashion, may i get to know where do you live to... erm... be there when you open the box and celebrate with you?
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SiliconDoc - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - link
I'm not certain how you saw any available then, looks from 3 different states didn't show that.Heck they weren't even active at 8 am, nor later than that. I guess you "got the only one" that wasn't Autonotify when arriving.
The0ne - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - link
This is the last piece of hardware I've been waiting for before I build my i7 system. Now I think it's a ok time for enthusiast to start building again but on a cheaper budget with better performance :) no more of these 200-300 MB and stuff lolgwolfman - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - link
I agree. Full bit-streaming support! Yeaz!blanarahul - Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - link
They should have given the option for 5870 to have triple DVI rather than single DVI + Dual DP. :(