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AXLE Radeon HD 5670 Video Card Review

Manufacturer: AXLE
Product: Radeon HD 5670 1GB (AH-567/1GD5P8CDI)
Date: Fri, Jul 02, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Austin Hamann -
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Test Setup

System as Tested

All testing was done on a 1-day old install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit with all the latest updates installed. All benchmarks were completed on the desktop with no other software programs running, aside from Steam for the games. The Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800MHz stick was run at 828MHz with CL5-6-6-19 timings, The Kingston SSD was used as a boot drive with Benchmarks and all games were run from a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB secondary HDD. Several parts are borrowed from my normal Phenom II setup which is lacking a processor currently waiting on a hex-core. The Core2 Quad Q8300 is running at 3105MHz with 1.18v VCore in a Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L mATX motherboard running BIOS version FF. Note the GA-G31M-ES2L is a PCIe x16 Version 1.0 motherboard. All NVIDIA GPUs were running the latest ForceWare 257.21 WHQL drivers with the ATI GPUs running on Catalyst 10.6 WHQL drivers.

  Intel Test Platform
 Component  Brand/Model Live Pricing
 Processor  Intel Core2 Quad Q8300 @3.105GHz
 Motherboard Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L
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 Memory (1x2GB) Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800MHz
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 Hard Drive
  Kingston SSDNow V Series 30GB
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 Cooling  Rocketfish Universal CPU Cooler
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 Power Supply
  Corsair TX750W
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Operating System
 Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
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Chassis NZXT Hades
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Image Description

With the latest GPU-Z v0.4.3 running you see that this is a standard reference-spec card.

Image Description

Like all the latest graphics cards on the market, AXLE's Radeon HD 5670 throttles itself during an idle state to the same clock speeds as the other two Radeon HD 5xxx cards.

This will be an in-depth review comparing the midrange-budget cards from both NVIDIA and ATI on as many API's as each game provides (OpenGL 4.0, DirectX 9.0c, DirectX 10, DirectX 11 when applicable), the ATI cards support all technologies whereas the NVIDIA cards support all but DirectX 11. The goal for testing is to give the readers a good idea of performance in the latest games in DirectX 11 as well as a broad understanding of each cards performance in DirectX 9 and 10. The games and benchmarks tested should give an accurate read on which architecture is better at each DirectX level to help make the decision of which graphics card you specifically need for the games you intend to play.

Next Page - Shattered Horizon


Review Index
Page 1 - AXLE 3D and the Radeon HD 5670
Page 2 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 3 - A Closer Look
Page 4 - Test Setup
Page 5 - Shattered Horizon
Page 6 - Colin McRae: DiRT 2
Page 7 - Metro 2033
Page 8 - Aliens vs Predator Benchmark v1.03
Page 9 - Furmark v1.8.2
Page 10 - Futuremark 3DMark
Page 11 - Unigine Heaven v2.1
Page 12 - Unigine Tropics v1.3
Page 13 - Temperatures & Power Consumption
Page 14 - AXLE Radeon HD 5670 Overclocking
Page 15 - Final Thoughts & Conclusions