Introducing AMD’s “Turks” – HD 6670 and HD 6570
Heaven 2.5 Unigine
Finally we come to our last benchmark, Heaven 2.5, on the Unigine engine. It uses DX11 and heavy tessellation which will strain any graphics card. At least two DX11 games based on Unigine are expected to be released this year. We use the setting for “extreme tessellation” and high shaders and we also set AF to 16x. We will tell you right now that this test chokes the GTX 590 at the highest settings and resolution so we do not run it even at 1920×1200 for lesser cards. Here are our results at 1680×1050 with 2xAA and maxed out settings (tessellation is extreme).
Now let’s still look at 1680×1050 but drop our shaders to medium and our tessellation from extreme to normal:
The GTS 450 is significantly faster than the overclocked HD 6670 in the extreme and medium settings of this benchmark. However, this is a synthetic benchmark and we will withhold judgment until we play PC games using the Unigine engine.
great review mark! Huge piles of data, thats what i love about the abt. I totally agree with your conclusion which is spot on. Given the gts450 and hd5770 may not be around for much longer these cards should be a great option in the future but for now there are some really nice price/performance options in the same bracket and they just dont shine through them. In time they may fall in place when some of these killer deals from the last generation slowly slip out of the picture.