{"id":22851,"date":"2010-12-21T13:31:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T13:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=22851"},"modified":"2010-12-21T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T15:43:13","slug":"ati-radeon-5770-reloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/ati-radeon-5770-reloaded\/","title":{"rendered":"ATi Radeon 5770 Reloaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--pagetitle:Introduction & Setup--><strong><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Introduction<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the Radeon 5770 launched I wrote several articles about it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=12436\" target=\"_blank\">Performance Test<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=12474\" target=\"_blank\">Bottleneck Investigation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=12648\" target=\"_blank\">Image Quality Analysis<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It has now been over a year since those articles were published, so I thought it would be interesting to revisit the 5770 to see the effect of driver updates during this period. I\u2019m going to compare the drivers that shipped with the product at launch against the latest Catalyst 10.12.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the settings used in this article are a little tough for the card, but the results will be used in future articles very soon, so I wanted to make sure the faster cards are challenged too.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hardware<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intel Core i7 870 (3.2 GHz, turbo on, HT off).<\/li>\n<li>4 GB DDR3-1333 RAM (2\u00d72 GB, dual-channel).<\/li>\n<li>Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3 (Intel P55 chipset, F6 BIOS).<\/li>\n<li>ATi Radeon 5770 (1 GB, reference clocks).<\/li>\n<li>Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic.<\/li>\n<li>30\u201d HP LP3065.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Software<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows 7 (64 bit).<\/li>\n<li>Catalyst 9.10 (CD driver) &amp; 10.12, high quality mip-mapping.<\/li>\n<li>DirectX June 2010.<\/li>\n<li>All games patched to their latest versions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Settings<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>16xAF forced in the driver, vsync forced off in the driver.<\/li>\n<li>AA forced either through the driver or enabled in-game, whichever works better.<\/li>\n<li>Highest quality sound (stereo) used in all games.<\/li>\n<li>All results show an average framerate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7021221536180758\";\n\/* 468x60, created 11\/11\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1949837292\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><!--pagetitle:1920x1200--><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1920&#215;1200<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22860\" title=\"Text 1920\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Text-1920.png?resize=251%2C290\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22854\" title=\"Chart 1920\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-1920.png?resize=448%2C504\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-1920.png 448w, https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-1920-266x300.png 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here we see a massive performance gain in <em>Aliens vs Predator 3<\/em> and smaller performance gains in the <em>Crysis<\/em> games, <em>Stalker<\/em>, and also in <em>Call of Duty 5<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We also see a performance loss in <em>Call of Duty 7<\/em>, which is quite interesting given Catalyst 9.10 predates the game by almost a year. Perhaps some rendering issues were corrected at the cost of performance, though I never saw any when I briefly took the card for a spin with both sets of drivers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7021221536180758\";\n\/* 468x60, created 11\/11\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1949837292\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><!--pagetitle:2560x1600--><strong><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2600&#215;1600<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22862\" title=\"Text 2560\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Text-2560.png?resize=202%2C221\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22856 aligncenter\" title=\"Chart 2560\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-2560.png?resize=451%2C409\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-2560.png 451w, https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-2560-300x272.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hell\u2019s Highway<\/em>, <em>Far Cry 2<\/em> and <em>Metro 2033<\/em> show some good performance gains, while the rest of the games are unchanged.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7021221536180758\";\n\/* 468x60, created 11\/11\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1949837292\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><!--pagetitle:2560x1600 & AA--><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2560&#215;1600 &amp; AA<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22861 aligncenter\" title=\"Text 2560 AA\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Text-2560-AA.png?resize=205%2C255\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22883 aligncenter\" title=\"Chart 2560 AA\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-2560-AA.png?resize=450%2C423\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-2560-AA.png 450w, https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-2560-AA-300x282.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this batch of games <em>Jericho<\/em> runs quite a bit faster with the new drivers, but <em>Call of Juarez<\/em> and <em>Stalker<\/em> experience a significant performance loss.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7021221536180758\";\n\/* 468x60, created 11\/11\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1949837292\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><!--pagetitle:8xMSAA--><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">8xMSAA<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22859 aligncenter\" title=\"Text 8xAA\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Text-8xAA.png?resize=249%2C187\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22853 aligncenter\" title=\"Chart 8xAA\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-8xAA.png?resize=451%2C323\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-8xAA.png 451w, https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-8xAA-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Serious Sam 2<\/em> sees a massive performance gain here, while <em>Call of Duty 2<\/em> shows a performance drop.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7021221536180758\";\n\/* 468x60, created 11\/11\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1949837292\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><!--pagetitle:OpenGL--><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">OpenGL<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22863 aligncenter\" title=\"Text OGL\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Text-OGL.png?resize=203%2C255\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22857 aligncenter\" title=\"Chart OGL\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-OGL.png?resize=452%2C442\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-OGL.png 452w, https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-OGL-300x293.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>These OpenGL results are rather disappointing given most titles show a performance loss.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7021221536180758\";\n\/* 468x60, created 11\/11\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1949837292\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><!--pagetitle:2xSSAA--><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2x Super-Sampling<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22864 aligncenter\" title=\"Text SSAA\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Text-SSAA.png?resize=262%2C186\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22858 aligncenter\" title=\"Chart SSAA\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-SSAA.png?resize=451%2C324\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-SSAA.png 451w, https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chart-SSAA-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here <em>Unreal Tournament 2004<\/em> and <em>Far Cry 1<\/em> show some excellent performance gains while <em>Half-Life 2<\/em> shows a smaller performance gain. Meanwhile, already poor performance in <em>Pacific Assault<\/em> is made even worse with the new driver.<\/p>\n<p>I had a lot more super-sampling benchmarks lined up but at some point after Catalyst 9.10 was released, super-sampling stopped working in OpenGL. It wouldn\u2019t function in any of the OpenGL games I tried with Catalyst 10.12, and it\u2019s not working on my Radeon 6850 either.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7021221536180758\";\n\/* 468x60, created 11\/11\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1949837292\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><!--pagetitle:Conclusion--><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Conclusion<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After more than a year\u2019s worth of driver updates we see that many games experienced significant performance gains. Unfortunately some other titles experienced a significant performance loss, and SSAA has stopped working in OpenGL, which is very disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned earlier, I have a Radeon 6850 in my possession, and these 5770 benchmarks will be used in upcoming articles. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7021221536180758\";\n\/* 468x60, created 11\/11\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1949837292\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Please join us in our <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/abt\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Forums<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech', 'Twitter']);\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest updates from ABT, please <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\">join our RSS News Feed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join our Distributed Computing teams<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Folding@Home &#8211; Team AlienBabelTech &#8211; 164304 <\/li>\n<li>SETI@Home &#8211; Team AlienBabelTech &#8211; 138705 <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcommunitygrid.org\/reg\/viewRegister.do?teamID=3P39R3SRV1\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.worldcommunitygrid.org\/reg\/viewRegister.do?teamID=3P39R3SRV1', 'World Community Grid &#8211; Team AlienBabelTech']);\" target=\"_blank\">World Community Grid &#8211; Team AlienBabelTech<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=22851\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=top title=\"Author: BFG10K\" src=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Article-Image1.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2533,7814,7],"tags":[4342,2528,2530,72,73,238],"class_list":["post-22851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abt-news","category-articles","category-technology","tag-10-12","tag-2528","tag-9-10","tag-amd","tag-ati","tag-radeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}