XFX Radeon HD 5850 1GB GDDR5 Review

by Michael "SKYMTL" Hoenig     |     October 7, 2009

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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2560 x 1600





After we had finished testing the cards for this review, we were told by a concerned reader that there was a way to eliminate the CPU bottleneck in low resolution tests. Once we retest the cards yet again when new WHQL drivers are released from NVIDIA and ATI, we will make sure to implement this in future reviews.

Unfortunately, our first taste of HD 5850 performance isn’t a good one. Whether it is driver immaturity or something else, the HD 5850 ends up struggling to find framerates that equal those of the GTX 285 and at one point is even passed by the GTX 275. Ouch.
 
 
 

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