Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 Review

Far Cry 2 (DX9)

Even though Far Cry 2 has its own built-in benchmarking tool with some flythroughs and “action scenes”, we decided to record our own timedemo consisting of about 7 minutes of game time. It involves everything from run-and-gun fights to fire effects. The built-in benchmarking too was then set up to replay the timedemo and record framerates

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Far Cry 2 performance is great but it isn’t quite what we were hoping to see considering how close the HD 5870’s specs math up with those of the HD 4870X2. Granted, drivers for the dual GPU card are mature but it seems there is something else holding the HD 5870 back.