Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB Vapor-X Review

Written by Harry Butler

December 1, 2009 | 08:06

Tags: #hd-5870 #overclocked #overclocking #performance #radeon #review #tested #vapor-x #vapour-x

Companies: #sapphire

Crysis

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Even after almost two years since it's release Crysis will make your system cry - it’s a monster! It doesn’t come as much of a surprise then, that the graphics are something special – they’re above and beyond anything we’ve ever seen in a PC game.

We tested the game using the 64-bit executable under DirectX 10 mode with the 1.21 patch applied. We used a custom timedemo recorded from the Laws of Nature level which is more representative of gameplay than the built-in benchmark that renders things much faster than you're going to experience in game. We found that around 27-33 fps in our custom timedemo was sufficient enough to obtain a playable frame rate through the game. It's a little different to other games in that the low frame rates still appear to be quite smooth.

We set all of the in-game details to High and forced 16x anisotropic filtering in the driver menu as there is currently no support for it in game. We tested at 1,280 x 1,024, using 0x, 2x and 4x anti-aliasing, 1,680 x 1,050 using 0x and 4xAA, 1,920 x 1,200 using 0x and 4xAA and 2,560 x 1,600 with 0xAA and 4xAA. By extensively testing using anti-aliasing in very high resolutions in conjunction to High quality, we'll be pushing even the bleeding edge hardware on test to the limit.

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Crysis

1,680 x 1,050 0xAA 16xAF, DirectX 10, High Quality

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB
  • Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB Vapour-X
  • ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
    • 72
    • 46
    • 83
    • 45
    • 58
    • 36
    • 57
    • 35
    • 52
    • 30
    • 44
    • 28
    • 47
    • 28
    • 32
    • 18
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
Frames Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

Crysis

1,680 x 1,050 4xAA 16xAF, DirectX 10, High Quality

  • ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB
  • Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB Vapour-X
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
    • 70
    • 40
    • 62
    • 39
    • 49
    • 27
    • 46
    • 27
    • 47
    • 26
    • 39
    • 24
    • 39
    • 21
    • 26
    • 13
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Frames Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

Crysis

1,920 x 1,200 0xAA 16xAF, DirectX 10, High Quality

  • ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB
  • Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB Vapour-X
  • ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
    • 70
    • 40
    • 60
    • 39
    • 48
    • 29
    • 46
    • 29
    • 48
    • 27
    • 39
    • 23
    • 37
    • 23
    • 28
    • 16
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Frames Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

Crysis

1,920 x 1,200 4xAA 16xAF, DirectX 10, High Quality

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
  • Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB Vapour-X
  • ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
    • 51
    • 33
    • 58
    • 31
    • 42
    • 24
    • 40
    • 22
    • 39
    • 21
    • 32
    • 20
    • 33
    • 17
    • 23
    • 12
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Frames Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

Crysis

2,560 x 1,600 0xAA 16xAF, DirectX 10, High Quality

  • ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB
  • Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB Vapour-X
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
    • 42
    • 25
    • 37
    • 22
    • 30
    • 17
    • 31
    • 17
    • 29
    • 16
    • 24
    • 13
    • 23
    • 13
    • 16
    • 9
0
10
20
30
40
Frames Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

Crysis

2,560 x 1,600 4xAA 16xAF, DirectX 10, High Quality

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
  • Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB Vapour-X
  • ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
    • 30
    • 18
    • 27
    • 14
    • 25
    • 12
    • 24
    • 12
    • 19
    • 11
    • 20
    • 10
    • 35
    • 9
    • 13
    • 6
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
Frames Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

For analysis of these results, please read the Results Analysis page.
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