Legit Video Card Reviews
AMD Radeon HD 6950 & 6970 CrossFire Video Card Reviews
| Manufacturer: | AMD |
| Product: | Legit Reviews 2010 Stocking Stuffer Guide |
| Date: | Tue, Dec 14, 2010 - 11:00 PM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
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H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark
We wanted to include a new benchmark for this review, so Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 was added in to see how it looked. This benchmark got some attention recently for not being neutral over the failure to use optimized code for better tessellation performance on AMD and NVIDIA cards, but that doesn't matter to us as we will be using this benchmark to look at just AMD cards.
Aerial warfare has evolved. So have you. As a member of the ultra-secret H.A.W.X. 2 squadron, you are one of the chosen few, one of the truly elite. You will use finely honed reflexes, bleeding-edge technology and ultra-sophisticated aircraft - their existence denied by many governments - to dominate the skies. You will do so by mastering every nuance of the world's finest combat aircraft. You will slip into enemy territory undetected, deliver a crippling blow and escape before he can summon a response. You will use your superior technology to decimate the enemy from afar, then draw him in close for a pulse-pounding dogfight. And you will use your steel nerve to successfully execute night raids, aerial refueling and more. You will do all this with professionalism, skill and consummate lethality. Because you are a member of H.A.W.X. 2 and you are one of the finest military aviators the world has ever known. H.A.W.X. 2 is due out on November 16, 2010 for PC gamers.
We ran the benchmark in DX11 mode and cranked up all the Antialiasing and Advanced image quality settings. We also enabled hardware tessellation as without that setting turned on the cards were getting well over 120FPS at a resolution of 1920x1200 and over 160FPS at 1280x1025. We wanted to stress the cards a bit and enabling tessellation appeared to do the trick as you'll see below.
Benchmark Results: HAWX 2 shows the Radeon HD 6800 and 6900 series at the bottom of the stack, but the cards are showing progress as the generation progresses.
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| Review Index |
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Page 1 - AMD Radeon HD 6970 & 6950 - 40nm Cayman
Page 2 - The Cayman GPU Architecture Page 3 - A Closer Look At The Radeon HD 6970 & 6950 Page 4 - AMD PowerTune Technology Page 5 - Test Setup Page 6 - Aliens vs. Predator Page 7 - Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Page 8 - Just Cause 2 Page 9 - Metro 2033 Page 10 - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Page 11 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Page 12 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark Page 13 - 3DMark Vantage Page 14 - 3DMark 11 Page 15 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11 Page 16 - FurMark 1.8.2 Page 17 - Temperature & Noise Testing Page 18 - Power Consumption Page 19 - Radeon 6970 & 6950 GPU Overclocking Page 20 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions |
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