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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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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
The events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat unfold shortly after the end of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl following the ending in which Strelok destroys the C-Consciousness. Having discovered the open path to the Zone's center, the government decides to stage a large-scale operation to take control of the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat utilizes the XRAY 1.6 Engine, allowing advanced modern graphical features through the use of DirectX 11 to be fully integrated; one outstanding feature being the inclusion of real-time GPU tessellation. Regions and maps feature photo realistic scenes of the region it is made to represent. There is also extensive support for older versions of DirectX, meaning that Call of Pripyat is also compatible with older DirectX 8, 9, 10 and 10.1 graphics cards.
The game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: CoP has no internal benchmarking tools built into the game engine, but they do have a standalone benchmark available that we used for our testing purposes. The screen capture above shows the main window of the benchmark with our settings. Notice we are running Enhanced Full Dynamic Lighting "DX11" as our renderer.
Under the advanced settings we enabled tessellation and 4x MSAA. We didn't enable ambient occlusion as we wanted to use these test settings for mainstream cards down the road and these settings should be tough enough to stress the Radeon HD 5000 series cards.
Benchmark Results: We have found that the S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat Benchmark is fairly tough on higher-end video cards with fairly high resolutions, so we were happy to see a 6% performance increase at 19x12 and a 9% performance boost at 12x10!
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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 |
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