HD 5970 Crossfire Performance AnalysisATI Radeon HD 5970 Single and Crossfire
Page 1 / 14 05/17/10
Introduction and Test Setup
In the past we have performed performance reviews on ATI Radeon 5870 Multi GPU set ups. Today's analysis will look at the performance and scaling of ATI's current flagship card, Radeon 5970. This card is a dual GPU graphics solution. Essentially, it is two slower clocked 5870s on one PCB. The table below summarizes the differences between the two cards in the table below.
Two 5970s running in Quadfire mode are not known to be the best scalers, but I believe that is changing as newer and more optimized drivers are being released.
The following setup was used for this analysis :
I7 920 @ 4.30 GHZ
3 X 2 GB Patriot Viper 1620 MHZ 7-8-8-20
EVGA X58 Motherboard
2 X Gigabyte ATI Radeon 5970 @ 725 MHZ / 4000 MHZ (Catalyst 10.4)
150 GB 10,000 RPM Velociraptor
Dell 3008wfp 30" LCD
Antec 1200 Watt PSU
Windows 7 64 bit
I used a mix of DX9, DX10 and DX11 titles for this review.
3D Mark Vantage DX10
Unigine Heaven DX11
Crysis Warhead DX10
World in Conflict DX10
Tom Clancy's HAWX DX10
Necrovision DX10
Just Cause 2 DX10 Far Cry 2 DX10
Battleforge DX11
Stalker COP DX11
Dirt 2 DX11
METRO 2033 DX11
Empire: Total War DX9
Batman: Arkham Asylum DX9
Warhammer: Dawn of War II DX9
Resident Evil 5 DX10
Lost Planet DX10
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena DX9
FEAR 2 DX9
On the next page we will look at some performance numbers.
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