Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 Review

Far Cry 2 (DX10)

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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Unlike in FC2 DX9, the DX10 API allows the Sapphire card to really flex its muscles and it hangs right with the best of the best while leaving every other single GPU card in its dust.