Gaming benchmarks at 1,920x1,080
As the gaming potential of the card is practically secondary to the main focus of zero-fan cooling, we're running our range of five games at the 1,920x1,080 resolution. Settings have been tweaked such that cards costing between £75-£150 stand a decent chance of rendering the games at playable framerates.
DX11
takes its toll here, but the game is just about playable on the HD 5670
Ultimate, we reckon.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is wonderfully scalable across GPUs, and
it's eminently playable on the silent Sapphire HD 5670 Ultimate at
1,920 x 1,080.
Knocking Crysis Warhead down from Gamer to Mainstream delivers
smooth-ish framerates. However, upon watching the benchmark run through
its paces, the extra £25 for the HD 5770 is well worth it, if
pure framerates matter to you.
The
same is true of DiRT 2, run via the DX11 path.
Our numbers show that, on average, a Radeon HD 5770 1GB card is 51 per cent faster than the HD 5670 1GB at the 1,920x1,080 resolution. The performance delta is accompanied by a 25 per cent price hike for the actively-cooled card. What price do you put on silence and power? Let's answer that by looking at a few more graphs on the following page.
Our numbers show that, on average, a Radeon HD 5770 1GB card is 51 per cent faster than the HD 5670 1GB at the 1,920x1,080 resolution. The performance delta is accompanied by a 25 per cent price hike for the actively-cooled card. What price do you put on silence and power? Let's answer that by looking at a few more graphs on the following page.