Review: ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition: AMD hits one for six

by Parm Mann on 31 March 2010, 05:00 4.0

Tags: AMD Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 edition, AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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System setup and notes

System HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
(with three 22in displays)
HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
(with six 22in displays)
HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 in CrossFire
(with six 22in displays)
Graphics cards AMD ATI Radeon HD 5870
Eyefinity Six Edition 2,048MB
AMD ATI Radeon HD 5870
Eyefinity Six Edition 2,048MB
2 x AMD ATI Radeon HD 5870
Eyefinity Six Edition 2,048MB
Shader model 5.0 5.0 5.0
Stream processors 1,600 1,600 3,200
GPU clock speed (MHz) 850 850 850
Shader clock speed (MHz) 850 850 850
Memory clock speed (MHz) 4,800 4,800 4,800
Memory bus width (bits) 256 256 256 (x2)
CPU Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition (3.20GHz, 8MB L3 cache, quad-core, LGA1366 - Turbo Boost on)
Motherboard ASUS P6X58D Premium
Motherboard BIOS 0703
Mainboard software Intel Inf 9.1.1.1025
Memory 6GB Crucial DDR3-1,067 CL7
Memory timings and speed 7-7-7-20 1T @ DDR3-1,066
PSU Corsair HX1000W
Monitor 3 x Dell 22in P2210 - 5,040x1,050px 6 x Dell 22in P2210 - 5,040x2,100px 6 x Dell 22in P2210 - 5,040x2,100px
Disk drive(s) Kingston SSDNow V+ 128GB SSD
Graphics driver Catalyst 10.3a Catalyst 10.3a Catalyst 10.3a
Operating system Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit

Software

Benchmarks DiRT 2 v1.1, London map - ultra quality
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X v1.2, internal benchmark: DX10/10.1 - high quality
Crysis Warhead v1.1.1.711 - train map - gamer quality, no AA
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 v523648 - FRAPS-recorded benchmark

Power-draw
Temperatures

Notes

Benchmarks were conducted at 5,040x2,100 on a six-screen configuration, and 5,040x1,050 on a three-screen configuration.

Readers should note that in keeping with previous high-end GPU reviews, we ran all of our games bar Crysis Warhead with high image quality settings. Crysis was run using the predefined gamer settings and no AA.

In order to see how well performance scales across two GPUs, we've also thrown in CrossFire results for a pair of Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition cards running in tandem.