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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Battleforge
BattleForge is EA’s card-based online-only RTS. As the first DirectX11 title it’s of particular importance for the latest rendition of DirectX, although in this case we aren’t using any features that would be impacted by it. Even without ambient occlusion, BattleForge manages to be a rather punishing game for GPUs.
Battleforge is another game where you really have to give up some kind of quality to play at 1680 or higher. The 5670 is neck-and-neck with the 8800 GT, but the 4850 makes quick work of it.
Compared to more modern cards, the 5670 is still at the top of the $99 class, but the GT 240 is within a few frames here. The 4670 falls well behind here, with the 5670 coming out almost 50% faster in some cases.
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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.