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

Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Now approaching a year old, Bad Company 2 remains as one of the cornerstone DX11 games in our benchmark suite. Based on the Frostbite 1.5 engine, it will be replaced in complexity by the DX10+ only Frostbite 2 engine (and Battlefield 3) later this year.  As BC2 doesn’t have a built-in benchmark or recording mode, here we take a FRAPS run of the jeep chase in the first act, which as an on-rails portion of the game provides very consistent results and a spectacle of explosions, trees, and more.

Bad Company 2 is another game where the 6670 delivers technically playable performance at 1680. Given that it’s a first person shooter it might be reasonable to drop down in resolution and/or quality to keep the entire experience smooth, but it’s playable. Indeed of the cards we test at 1680, it’s the slowest card we’d call playable.

In any case, depending on the resolution the 6670 has a 12-14% lead over the 5670, while the 6570 trails the 5670 by as little as 2%. Everything here is well ahead of the GT 430 and other slower cards, but well behind the GTS 450 and faster cards. Turks fits in very well between GF108 and GF106, it would seem.