AMD ATI Radeon HD 5870: Unquestionably Number One

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by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 12:00 AM EDT

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.

DirectX Gaming Performance

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. is an aerial warfare video game that takes place during the time of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. Players have the opportunity to take the throttle of over 50 famous aircrafts in both solo and 4-player co-op missions, and take them over real world locations and cities in photo-realistic environments created with the best commercial satellite data provided by GeoEye. We used the built-in performance test at two resolutions with all quality settings set to their highest values, using the DX10-based engine for the GeForce cards, and DX10.1 libraries for the Radeons.

H.A.W.X. really preferred the dual-GPU powered cards when tested at 1920x1200, as is evident by the Radeon HD 4870 X2's and GeForce GTX 295's excellent performance. Ratchet the resolution up to 2560x1600 though, and the Radeon HD 5870 bests all comers, except for the X2, that is. The other single-GPU powered cards in the mix--the Radeon HD 4890 and GeForce GTX 285--were simply left in a flat spin, but the Radeon HD 5870's jet wash. Get it? H.A.W.X., jets, jet wash? Oh, nevermind...

Tags: AMD, ATI, Gaming, DirectX, graphics, GPU, PCI Express, PCIe, dx11

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com