Legit Video Card Reviews

ATI Radeon HD 5870 + 5850 Crossfire - Mixing Video Cards

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: Radeon HD 5870 & 5850
Date: Wed, Oct 21, 2009 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. (High Altitude Warfare eXperimental squadron) is an aerial warfare video game developed by Ubisoft Romania and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows. It was released in United States on March 6, 2009 and features Microsoft DirectX 10.1 game play.

Tom Clancy HAWX

I used this benchmark back in April 2009 in my original coverage of the GeForce 275 versus the Radeon HD 4890, but some new patches have come out that have greatly impacted performance. I also didn't show the differences between DX9, DX10 and DX10.1 the first time around, but this time I will.

Tom Clancy HAWX

For this game VSync was turned off, but Antialiasing was turned on and set to 8x for better image quality.

Tom Clancy HAWX

All of the DirectX 10 options were set to high including Ambient occlusion (SSAO) on both the NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards.  The game was patched with update v1.2, which was the most current patch.

Tom Clancy HAWX Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: in H.A.W.X. we again see the mixed CrossFire solution performing slower than a pair of Radeon HD 5850's in CrossFire at both the resolutions we tested it at.  On our 24" monitor at 1920 x 1200 resolution the difference was just 2% though. Adding a Radeon HD 5870 to a system with a Radeon HF 5850 provided an 80% performance though.

Next Page - 3DMark Vantage


Review Index
Page 1 - Running Mixed CrossFire with Radeon 5800 Cards
Page 2 - The Test System
Page 3 - Batman: Arkham Asylum
Page 4 - Resident Evil 5
Page 5 - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Page 6 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 7 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions