ATI Radeon HD 5670 – Is DirectX 11 really cheaply? (english version) 2010-03-08 8 2217

Our test config includes the following items:

• Motherboard:
  • GIGABYTE GA-X58-UD4P (BIOS: F8)
• Processor:
  • Intel Core i7 920 2,66 GHz @ 3,8 GHz (200×19)
• CPU cooler:
  • Scythe Ninja 2 Rev B
• Memory:
  • Kingston HyperX 1600 MHz MHz 10-11-11-29 2 × 2 GB 1.65 V
• Hard disk drives:
  • HITACHI 160 GB SATA2 (HDS721616PLA380)
  • Samsung 200 GB SATA2 (SP2004C)
• Graphics cards:
  • GeForce GTS 250 512 MB GDDR3 (Leadtek Winfast GTS250-512D3-FPAS-1)
  • GeForce GTX 260 896 MB GDDR3 (Leadtek Winfast GTX260 Extreme+)
  • GeForce GTX 275 896 MB GDDR3 (Leadtek Winfast GTX275)
  • ATI Radeon HD 4770 512 MB GDDR5 (PowerColor AX4770 512MD5-M)
  • ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB GDDR3 (HIS HD 4850 iCooler IV H485FM512H)
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 512 MB GDDR5 (GIGABYTE GV-R487-512H-B)
  • ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB GDDR5 (GIGABYTE GV-R577D5-1GB-B)
  • ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024 MB GDDR5 (GIGABYTE GV-R575D5-1GD)
  • ATI Radeon HD 5670 (ASUS EAH5670/DI/1GD5)
  • ATI Radeon HD 5750 (ASUS 5750 Formula)
• PSU: Xigmatek NRP-HC1501 1500 W
• Software environment:
  • Windows 7 RTM 64 bit HUN
  • Intel INF 9.1.1.1019
  • NVIDIA GeForce 195.62 WHQL x64
  • ATI Catalyst 9.11 x64
  • ATI Catalyst 10.2 x64
• Display: ASUS 24T1 TV monitor

Graphic drivers:

Before we know the test results, need to be clreared how we made them. In case of synthetic gauges (3DMark Vantage, DirectCompute Benchmark, Unigine Heaven Benchmark) we did not touch driver’s settings neither GeForce or Catalyst sides. After the synthetic gauges we turned on 16× anisotropic filtering, because we can not have opportunity in all application, but we think this is necessary for the gauges. Of course (sorry) we have no mode to take all cards take on test config, so we use result from an older review (hungarian language), gauged with 9.11 Cataylist driver.

All details can be found int he link, so we will not write again. Fresh models, HD 5750 Formula and HD 5670 have 10.2 Radeon driver, but this is give us chance to test (because HD 5750 Formula has the same clock speed as the factory default) difference between the old and new driver with the same speed device.

Video cards, power usage, warming, noise:

As we mentioned, you can find the older cards’ references in the previous article, but we watched the new cards’ power usage, between FurMark is on fire.

Games, gauge applications, gauge tools:

• 3DMark Vantage 1.1
• Everest 5.30.1900
• CPU-Z 1.5.2.2 X64
• Afterburner 1.1.0
• GPU-Z 0.3.8
• FurMark 1.8.0
• FRAPS 3.0.3
• Unigine Heaven Benchmark 1.0
• DirectCompute Benchmark v0.15
• FRAMEBUFFER Crysis Warhead Benchmarking Tool 0.33
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky Benchmark 1.5.08
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky 1.5.10
• Devil May Cry 4
• Resident Evil 5
• World in Conflict v10.10 b34
• Crysis Warhead 1.1
• Far Cry 2 v1.01
• Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 1.02
• Batman: Arkham Asylum 1.1
• Battleforge 1.1
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2