HAWX

Ubisoft’s 2008 aerial action game is one of the less demanding games in our benchmark suite, particularly for the latest generation of cards. However it’s fairly unique in that it’s one of the few flying games of any kind that comes with a proper benchmark.

HAWX is a game that traditionally favors NVIDIA’s cards, so the outcome should not be a surprise. The GTX 590 takes a respectable 7% lead here, however at 179fps at 2560x1600 the difference is academic at best.

Metro 2033 Civilization V
Comments Locked

123 Comments

View All Comments

  • WhatsTheDifference - Monday, April 4, 2011 - link

    how many years has it been since *any* 4890 has been represented in the charts..? why is it this way? come on. exclude nV's earlier gen top dog and maybe no one will notice.
  • Scandalman - Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - link

    Interesting article, however it would be useful to know what power supplies you recommend.

    I am interested in using a pair of these cards for running an OpenCL application flat out and I want to know if my Tagan 1100W supply is sufficient; It's running a GA890-GPA-UD3H/Phenom x4 955 with two unlocked 6950's at the moment.

    Looks like it might just do it with a whisker to spare, but I'd like to avoid expensive pyrotechnics.
  • nyran125 - Sunday, June 19, 2011 - link

    im not really into giving all my money to the same manufactorer every year just to buy a new video card that does nothing else accept increase FPS by 3-10 fps. Sometimes it doesnt increase it at all. If what you have already owns everything out there, i dont see the point. I only see the point if what you have DOESNT do what you want it to do. AMD 6870 is running every game iver played so far on max withotu issue at highest resolution. We are in the console era.

    Unless your playing Arma 2 and Shogun total war 2, but even then thats more CPU related adn an amd 6870 combined with a high end cpu prety much gets the job done at high res. NOT 30" though. Bu my eyes are screwed up enough from staring at a montier, than even want to go to 30 ".

Log in

Don't have an account? Sign up now