HD 5970 Crossfire Performance AnalysisATI Radeon HD 5970 Single and Crossfire
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Introduction and Test Setup
So far, we have done two articles on ATI 5870s. We have looked into single, dual and tri fire 5870 performance in DX 9, DX 10 and DX 11 games. If you haven't already, you might want to take a look here and here. Today's article is going to focus on 5870's older brother -- 5970. ATI Radeon 5970 is a dual GPU card. It is practically two slower clocked 5870s running in crossfire mode on one PCB. Here is a short comparison between the two cards :
The following setup was utilized for the benchmarks:
I7 920 @ 4.30 GHZ
3 X 2 GB Patriot Viper 1620 MHZ 7-8-8-20
EVGA X58 Motherboard
Gigabyte ATI Radeon 5970 + Sapphire ATI Radeon 5970 (crossfire - Catalyst 10.4)
150 GB 10,000 RPM Velociraptor
Dell 3008wfp 30" LCD
Antec 1200 Watt PSU
Windows 7 64 bit
Software Used
I used a mix of DX9,DX 10 and DX 11 titles for this article :
3D Mark Vantage
Unigine Heaven 2.0
World in Conflict Demo
Crysis Warhead 1.5
Tom Clancy's HAWX Demo
Far Cry 2
Necrovision Demo
Just Cause 2
Battleforge Demo
Stalker Call of Pripyat Benchmark
METRO 2033
Dirt 2
FEAR 2
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
Warhammer : Dawn of War II Demo
Lost Planet : Extreme Conditions Benchmark
Resident Evil 5 Benchmark
Empire : Total War Demo
Batman Arkham Asylum
We will take a look at some benchmarks on the next page. Please note, that some of the tested games are demo versions and as such may not be representative of the performance and scaling of the final version of the game.
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