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ASUS GeForce GTX 470 ENGTX470 Video Card Review

Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: ENGTX470/2DI/1280MD5
Date: Fri, Apr 23, 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: When we ran Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. in DirectX 10 mode with AA enabled, we saw the ASUS GeForce GTX 470 best the Radeon HD 5850 cards and come real close to matching the Radeon HD 5870 performance numbers at a lower resolution of 1280x1024

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Review Index
Page 1 - The ASUS Voltage Tweak GTX470
Page 2 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 3 - The ASUS Smart Doctor Utility
Page 4 - GeForce GTX 470 Test Settings
Page 5 - Batman: Arkham Asylum
Page 6 - Resident Evil 5
Page 7 - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Page 8 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 9 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 10 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 11 - Power Consumption
Page 12 - Temperature Testing
Page 13 - GeForce GTX 470 Overclocking
Page 14 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions