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Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic 1GB Video Card Review

Manufacturer: Sapphire
Product: SAPPHIRE TOXIC 100282TXSR
Date: Thu, Mar 25, 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

The game has a built-in benchmark that is very tough on video cards! 

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. was run in DirectX 10 mode with AA enabled. We see a 9%  performance improvement over stock clocked Radeon HD 5850 video cards. 

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Review Index
Page 1 - Sapphire HD 5850 TOXIC Edition video card
Page 2 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 3 - Radeon HD 5870 Test Settings
Page 4 - Batman: Arkham Asylum
Page 5 - Resident Evil 5
Page 6 - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Page 7 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 8 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 9 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 10 - Temperature Testing
Page 11 - Power Consumption
Page 12 - Sapphire 5850 Toxic Overclocking
Page 13 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions