Introducing AMD’s “Turks” – HD 6670 and HD 6570

Resident Evil 5

Resident Evil 5 is a survival horror third-person shooter developed and published by Capcom that has become the best selling single title in the series. The game is the seventh installment in the Resident Evil series and it was released for Windows in September 2009. Resident Evil 5 revolves around two investigators pulled into a bio-terrorist threat in a fictional town in Africa.

Resident Evil 5 features online co-op play over the Internet and also takes advantage of Nvidia’s 3D Vision technology. The PC version comes with exclusive content the consoles do not have. The developer’s emphasis is on optimizing high frame rates but they have also implemented HDR, tone mapping, depth of field and motion blur into the game.

Resident Evil 5‘s custom game engine, ‘MT Framework’, already supports DX10 to benefit from less memory usage and faster loading. Resident Evil 5 gives you choice as to DX10 or Dx 9 and we naturally ran the DX10 pathway. There are two benchmarks built-into Resident Evil 5. We chose the variable benchmark as it is best suited for testing video cards. Here it is at 1920×1200 resolution with maxed out in-game setting plus 8xAA:

The overclocked HD 6670 nearly catches the GTS 450.  Finally we test at 1680×1050.

All of our video cards turn in respectable performances and their overall playability is similar at except for the GT 430. And this time we see the GTS 550 lead over HD 6670 at all clocks at its target resolution of 1680×1050 but the HD 6790 is faster still at all tested resolutions and nearly catches the GTX 550 Ti.