ATI Radeon HD 5450 & HD 5570 Review
Crysis
From the makers of Far Cry, Crysis offers FPS fans the best-looking, most highly-evolving gameplay, requiring the player to use adaptive tactics and total customization of weapons and armor to survive in dynamic, hostile environments including Zero-G.
Crysis is currently still one of the most demanding games on the GPU subsystem. Even with the visual settings and the resolution turned down, Crysis can usually make a mainstream system beg you for an upgrade. The HD 5450 varied from slideshow to marginally playable at these settings while the poor 8500GT offered some still shots.
The HD 5570 was easily playable and smooth enough to enjoy the game without much slowdowns. The 9800GT wins again as expected but does hit a lower minimum than the HD 5570.
The 5570 consumes 69 watts more power under load and 40 watts more in idle? No way, something must have gone wrong here. The results on other sites are in a different league – single digit watt difference in idle and ~30 watts under load.
Thanks for your comment Howitzer. The fact is exactly as I stated, this is the power draw on the *entire* system. Other sites may have the tools such as power meters that can measure the video card power draw at the slot level. I am only privy to a Kill-A-Watt unit.
The major factor in this is that the 1100W PSU that powers my system has driven up the idle power load quite a bit. Now the difference in the figures will also take into account any additional power draw from the CPU also being under load along with other smaller components like hard drive(s) spinning up and so on.
We do hope to continue improving our testing with better equipment, as our very limited resources will allow.
Thanks for your time. =)