XFX Radeon HD 5870 Black Edition Graphics Card Review

Written by Paul Goodhead

June 17, 2010 | 10:29

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STALKER: Call of Pripyat (DX11)

Publisher: Deep Silver

From our STALKER: Call of Pripyat review:
One place where STALKER: Call of Pripyat definitely excels is in the graphics department, with fancy DirectX 11 tessellation, huge view distances and a gorgeous lighting system that really delivers in wow-factor. Pushing the game up to the maximum settings can require some hefty hardware obviously, but it’s worth the effort if you can because the technical prowess of the game is one thing that’s impossible to fault.

We run the game at its prettiest, and most demanding, with the image quality set to Maximum and in DX11 mode. We then enter the Advanced settings menu to ramp up every slider to maximum. We leave SSAO (Soft Shadow Ambient Occlusion) at default. We repeat each test three times, discarding anomalous results and averaging the consistent ones.

*XFX Radeon HD 5870 Black Edition Graphics Card Review HD 5870 Black Edition STALKER: Call of Pripyat (DX11) Performance *XFX Radeon HD 5870 Black Edition Graphics Card Review HD 5870 Black Edition STALKER: Call of Pripyat (DX11) Performance

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call OF Pripyat

1,680 x 1,050 0xAA 16xAF, DirectX 11, Maximum Detail

  • XFX Radeon HD 5870 Black Edition
  • ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB
    • 85
    • 65
    • 82
    • 64
    • 70
    • 56
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Frame Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call OF Pripyat

1,920 x 1,200 0xAA 16xAF, DirectX 11, Maximum Detail

  • XFX Radeon HD 5870 Black Edition
  • ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB
    • 72
    • 57
    • 70
    • 57
    • 59
    • 47
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10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Frame Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call OF Pripyat

2,560 x 1,600 0xAA 16xAF, DirectX 11, Maximum Detail

  • XFX Radeon HD 5870 Black Edition
  • ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB
    • 46
    • 35
    • 45
    • 35
    • 38
    • 30
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Frame Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

For explanation of what these numbers mean, head to the Results Analysis page.
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