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Gigabyte Radeon HD 5670 1GB Video Card Review

Manufacturer: Gigabyte
Product: GV-R567OC-1GI Gigabyte Radeon HD 5670
Date: Thu, Apr 15, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Jason Petermann -
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Stalker Call of Pripyat DX11 Performance Benchmark

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.

Stalker Call of Pripyat DX11 Performance Benchmark

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.


Gigabyte Radeon 5670 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Results

Benchmark Results: The ability of the Radeon card to handle higher resolutions better is made obvious here in this benchmark. At 1920x1200, the Gigabyte Radeon HD 5670 more than doubled in frames per second.  The cards were closer at a resolution of 1280x1024, but the Gigabyte card still out-performed the 9600GT by nearly 22%.

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Review Index
Page 1 - The Gigabyte Radeon HD 5670
Page 2 - A closer look at the Gigabyte Radeon HD 5670
Page 3 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 4 - Gigabyte Radeon HD 5670 Test Settings
Page 5 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 6 - FurMark 1.8.0
Page 7 - Unigine 'Heaven'
Page 8 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 9 - Colin McRae: Dirt 2
Page 10 - JustCause2
Page 11 - Temperature & Power Consumption
Page 12 - Overclocking
Page 13 - Final Thoughts on the Gigabyte Radeon HD 5670