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Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 1GB CrossFire Video Card Review

Manufacturer: Sapphire
Product: Radeon HD 5570
Date: Tue, Feb 09, 2010 - 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: Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. when run in DirectX 10 mode with AA enabled is tough on video cards, but the Radeon HD 5570 was able to run the game at both resolutions at over 30FPS on average. The single Radeon HD 5570 had a tough time playing the game, but it still performed better than the NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 and even the EVGA GeForce GT 240 SuperClocked at a resolution of 1920x1200. 

Next Page - 3DMark Vantage


Review Index
Page 1 - Radeon HD 5570 - $79 for 520 GFlops
Page 2 - ATI Radeon HD 5570 HDMI
Page 3 - Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 1GB
Page 4 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 5 - Radeon HD 5570 Test Settings
Page 6 - Batman: Arkham Asylum
Page 7 - Resident Evil 5
Page 8 - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Page 9 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 10 - FurMark 1.7.0
Page 11 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 12 - Temperature Testing
Page 13 - Power Consumption
Page 14 - Radeon HD 5570 Overclocking
Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions