ATI Radeon HD 5970 Dual-GPU Powerhouse Review

Name: ATI Radeon HD 5970 Dual-GPU Powerhouse Review - Page 9
Brand: ATI

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 12:01 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 for the Radeons.

The results from the H.A.W.X. benchmark look much like those from Enemy Territory: Quake Wars a few pages back. Here, the Radeon HD 5970 has no trouble dispatching all of the single-GPU powered configurations and handily outpaces the dual-GPU powered GeForce GTX 295. However, the Radeon HD 5850 and 5870 CrossFire configurations take the top two spots.

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

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