Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 Review

Tom Clancy’s Hawx (DX10 / 10.1)

Even though HawX has a built-in benchmarking tool, we found that it did not provide accurate enough results needed to reflect what actual in-game performance would be. Thus, we played through the first 6 minutes of a mission and recorded the results with FRAPS. All ATI cards have DX10.1 enabled.

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2560 x 1600



Here is a real oddity for you. After testing again and again, it just seems like at lower resolutions the HD 5870 isn’t quite able to put the rubber to the road but it begins surging ahead at higher IQ settings. This seems to be more of a driver issue rather than a performance shortfall.