Introducing AMD’s “Turks” – HD 6670 and HD 6570
Wolfenstein
Wolfenstein is a science fiction first-person shooter video game mostly co-developed by Raven and id Software and published by Activision. It is the sequel to Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and uses the id Tech 4 engine. The game was released in 2009. Our timedemo benchmark was created by ABT’s own Senior Editor, BFG10K. First we test at 1920×1200 with completely maxed out in-game settings.
This resolution is too demanding for the new HD 6670 as well as the HD 6790 and GTX 550 Ti although they beat up on the GTS 450 which produces a slideshow at the same settings. The HD 5770 is a no show with the OpenGL games we tested and with the 11.4 beta driver. Now we test at 1680×1050 with maxed-out settings.
The Wolfenstein game is too demanding for our new cards until the HD 6670 is overclocked. Then its performance is almost sufficient to match the GTX 560 Ti. We also note good improvement in framerates by increasing the HD 6670’s clockspeed and memory clocks.
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.