AMD’s Radeon HD 5770 & 5750: DirectX 11 for the Mainstream Crowd
by Ryan Smith on October 13, 2009 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
BattleForge
BattleForge is EA’s card-based online-only RTS. As the first DirectX11 title it’s of particular importance for the latest rendition of DirectX, although in this case we aren’t using any features that would be impacted by it. Even without ambient occlusion, BattleForge manages to be a rather punishing game for GPUs.
BattleForge is another game that punishes the 5700 series. The performance hit coming from the 4870 starts at 25% at 1680, and ends at just 18% at 2560. This also means that the 5770 loses to the GTX 260.
As for the 5750, it loses at 1680 by 7%, but eeks out a very slight win at 1920. Apparently being memory bandwidth starved isn’t so bad when your competitor is too.
Finally, this gives us one of the larger gaps between the 5770 and 5850. $100 buys you 60%-70% more performance.
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strikeback03 - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
10 hrs a day is modest? That seems high to me, unless you are doing work that pays on this, I would think most people don't have 10hrs a day for recreational computing.Mint - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
We're not talking about most people, we're talking about people who bother to get a 5770 instead of living with IGPs. Many people leave their computer on 24/7 to download torrents or fold or act as a file server (it's nice to access it from work) or whatever. I think 10 hours is a reasonable average for the target audience.Even if you reduce it to 5 hours a day, though, that's still $8/year. I like to keep video cards for a long time (usu. 2 years or more), and even when I upgrade, the old one is usually handed down.
My point is that it's not something to ignore when comparing to the 4870. It was much less relevent for $300 cards with a 20W-30W difference (4870 vs GTX260 at launch), but now it's a 50W difference for $150 cards.
UNHchabo - Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - link
Personally, I wish that the 4770 had been included in the power charts. It may be a largely irrelevant card for price/performance, but it's still the cheapest 40nm card that AMD makes.Zingam - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
Real competition does wonderful things! If NVIDIA hasn't done it so great with 8800, we would never had these great prices by ATI today!Unfortunately there is nothing like that on the CPU side. :(
MadMan007 - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
Is the GTS 250 512MB or 1GB? It's not even stated in the test setup notes.Ryan Smith - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
1GB.Adul - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id...">http://www.monoprice.com/products/produ...1&p_...As long as the video card supports outputting hdmi through the display port this will do. So the question is does it support hdmi signals through the display port?
Ryan Smith - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
Passive dongles are not supported on the 5000 series. It has to be an active dongle.danielkza - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
There's a typo in page 5, I think you meant 'GTS 250' instead of 'GTX 250' (1st paragraph after the charts)Skiprudder - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - link
Thanks for the review!I guess I'm rather surprised at the 5770 results being consistently lower than the 4870 as well, and would be interested in a a bit more hypothesizing as to why exactly this is the case when the stats on the cards suggest they should be at minimum roughly equivalent. Is this situation the sort of thing that might see large changes with updated versions of Catalyst?