ATI Radeon HD 5830 Review

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

The events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat unfold shortly after the end of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. Having discovered about the open path to the Zone center, the government decides to hold a large-scale military “Fairway” operation aimed to take the CNPP under control.

The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (just simply called STALKER) series has made quite an impact on PC gaming with its Action-RPG, FPS hybrid style gameplay. The latest game in the series, Call of Pripyat, has a benchmark which was used to compare the performance of the two cards being featured today.

Here are the results of the DX10 benchmarks.

Now here is the chart for the DX11 benching runs. Lacking DX11 functionality, the HD 4870 was obviously left out of these tests.

Call of Pripyat ran reasonably well on the DX10 pathway on both cards. The HD 5830, yet again, having the slight edge. The DX11 performance is admirable when comparing it to DX10 and he performance hit is minimal if any at all. In some instances the DX11 pathway performed better than DX10.