AMD's Radeon HD 5670: Sub-$100 DirectX 11 Starts Today
by Ryan Smith on January 14, 2010 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Crysis: Warhead
Kicking things off, we’ll start with Crysis: Warhead. Warhead is still the single most demanding game in our arsenal, with cards continuing to struggle to put out a playable frame rate with everything turned up.
The 5670 is slow enough that it doesn’t fare well here on Crysis with the settings turned up. Crysis is a crushing game, and it’s necessary to turn the settings down to get a playable framerate.
Once we do that, it does quite well at nearly 50fps at 1280. Compared to the GT 240 it’s upwards of 25% faster, and even edges out the 8800 GT in all cases. It’s also a great deal faster than the 4670, beating it by nearly 40%. The 4850 gets the last laugh however, and handily beats the 5670.
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ereavis - Thursday, January 14, 2010 - link
Hybrid Crossfire review please! This generation is supposed to support it (according to the IGP review)ZipSpeed - Thursday, January 14, 2010 - link
Looks like a worthy replacement for my 4670 in my HTPC. Looks like it will still have some issues with certain games at 1080p but since I play mostly Source games on my HTPC, it should stabilize some frame rate problems I get with my 4670.DigitalFreak - Thursday, January 14, 2010 - link
Not showing up on Newegg yet...BelardA - Thursday, January 14, 2010 - link
Uh... Newegg has 7 5670s to choose from for $100 (512mb) to $120 (1GB). You posted your response 4 hours ago.Stupid to spend $120 for such a card. $125 (after rebate) ~ $140 gets the easily faster 5750.
DigitalFreak - Thursday, January 14, 2010 - link
... and at the time there weren't any 5670s on Newegg.BelardA - Friday, January 15, 2010 - link
Oh, I know. Thats why I said it was "4 hours" after your posting. it wasn't a slam... Just showing how much things can change in a few hours. :0Sureshot324 - Thursday, January 14, 2010 - link
Wow, modern high end cards are around 3 times as fast as my 8800gt, yet I can still play pretty much any game at max settings at 1680x1050.DigitalFreak - Thursday, January 14, 2010 - link
You can thank consoles for that. They're the least common denominator now, and a big reason why game graphics aren't moving forward as fast as they used to.hadphild - Thursday, January 14, 2010 - link
Can anyone confirm being able to run a 6 screen configuration with 2 x 5XXX cards yet.If it ran with 2 x 5670 cards then I would be happy. (I am not running Crysis with this config) But wanting to run a custom opengl app.
Spoelie - Thursday, January 14, 2010 - link
eyefinity while crossfired is not supported as of yet.