AMD Radeon HD 5870 1GB CrossFire performance review
With the Radeon HD 5970 hitting the streets later this week, strapping two "Cypress" GPUs together onto a single physical graphics board, now seems like as good a time as any to take a look at an alternative to such a set-up – Two individual Radeon HD 5870 boards in a CrossFire configuration. We take a look at exactly what a Radeon HD 5870 CrossFire configuration has to offer buyers with the cash to spare compared to the already stellar performance of a single Radeon HD 5870 card.
AMD Radeon HD 5870 1GB CrossFire performance review
"Now we move on to a far more important topic – Real-world game testing. Here, we put both our AMD Radeon HD 5870 CrossFire configuration through its paces under Windows 7 Home Premium x64 in no less than eight current game titles. For the duration, of this article, we’ll be catering towards standard sized LCD owners by starting out with a target resolution of 1920×1200, albeit with AMD’s own 12x edge detect anti-aliasing mode and 16x anisotropy enabled to make the most of the additional image quality capabilities on show here, before following this up with some far more GPU intensive rendering at 2560×1600 for you 30" LCD owners out there to stress the boards more fully – first without any anti-aliasing or anisotropic filtering, followed by testing with 8x AA and 16x AF enabled."
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