ATI Radeon HD 5830 Review: Filling The Gap

Name: ATI Radeon HD 5830 Review: Filling The Gap - Page 8
Brand: ATI

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, February 25, 2010, 12:00 AM EDT

Left 4 Dead 2

DirectX Gaming Performance

Left 4 Dead 2

Like its predecessor, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative, survival horror, first-person shooter that pits four players against numerous hordes of Zombies. Like Half Life 2, the game uses the Source engine, however, the visual in L4D 2 are far superior to anything seen in the Half Life universe to date. The game has much more realistic water and lighting effects, more expansive maps with richer detail, more complex models, and the list goes on and on. We tested the game at various resolutions with 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering enabled and all in game graphical options set to their maximum values.

The new Radeon HD 5830 pulled ahead of the GeForce GTX 275 and trailed only the 5850 and GTX 285 at resolutions of 1680x1050 and 1920x1200, but with the resolution cranked way up to 2560x1600, the GTX 275 came roaring back. All of the cards handled Left 4 Dead 2 very well.

Tags: AMD, ATI, Radeon, Gaming, graphics, GPU, video, 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