AMD’s Radeon HD 6670 & Radeon HD 6570: Two’s Company, Sub-$100’s A Crowd

Mass Effect 2

Electronic Arts’ space-faring RPG is our Unreal Engine 3 game. While it doesn’t have a built in benchmark, it does let us force anti-aliasing through driver control panels, giving us a better idea of UE3’s performance at higher quality settings. Since we can’t use a recording/benchmark in ME2, we use FRAPS to record a short run.

The 6670 once again cracks 30fps at 1680, this time on Mass Effect 2. Even the 6570 does well here, hitting 33fps and tying with the 5670. ME2’s framerate can fluctuate wildly depending on the level, but if you were to disable anti-aliasing it should be playable at 1680 most of the time.

Overall the 6670 has a lead between 9% and 12% on the 5670 depending on the resolution, while the 6570 is effectively tied with the 5670 at all resolutions. Memory bandwidth plays a huge part of this, which is why the 6570 has a shocking 50% lead over the 5570 with ME2.