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ATI Radeon HD 5870 DX11 Video Card Review

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: Radeon HD 5870
Date: Tue, Sep 22, 2009 - 11:00 PM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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FurMark 1.7.0

FurMark is a very intensive OpenGL benchmark that uses fur rendering algorithms to measure the performance of the graphics card. Fur rendering is especially adapted to overheat the GPU and that's why FurMark is also a perfect stability and stress test tool (also called GPU burner) for the graphics card.

FurMark 1.7.0

The benchmark was rendered in fullscreen mode with no AA enabled on both video cards.

ATI Radeon HD 4890 Benchmark Results:

FurMark 1.7.0

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 Benchmark Results:

FurMark 1.7.0

And for those that like data in pretty little charts:

Furmark Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: FurMark gives us some interesting results. Neither the GeForce GTX 295 nor Radeon HD 5870 CrossFire systems scale, though the HD 4870X2 does. Regardless, the single HD 5870 is in another world at nearly 55% ahead of the NVIDIA's finest.

Next Page - Temperature Testing


Review Index
Page 1 - The World's First DX11 GPU
Page 2 - The Radeon HD 5870
Page 3 - Radeon HD 5870 With No HSF
Page 4 - The Test System
Page 5 - Batman: Arkham Asylum
Page 6 - Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
Page 7 - Need For Speed: Shift‎
Page 8 - Resident Evil 5
Page 9 - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Page 10 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 11 - FurMark 1.7.0
Page 12 - Temperature Testing
Page 13 - Power Consumption
Page 14 - Overclocking
Page 15 - Extreme Overclocking
Page 16 - Bitstream Audio Testing
Page 17 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions