Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 Review

Call of Duty: World at War

To benchmark this game, we played through 10 minutes of the third mission (Hard Landing) starting from when the player first enters the swamp, through the first bunker until the final push onto the airfield. This was benchmarked using FRAPS.


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Unfortunately, CoH: WaW performance tends to run into a massive CPU bottleneck for the high-performance cards. That being said, the HD 5870 shows some incredible performance numbers and in many cases comes close to matching the HD 4870X2. Considering the new card’s specifications however, we would have expected it to at least equal the performance of the last generation flagship.