AMD’s Radeon HD 6670 & Radeon HD 6570: Two’s Company, Sub-$100’s A Crowd
by Ryan Smith on April 19, 2011 12:01 AM ESTHAWX
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.
As one of our less demanding games, HAWX is the first title in our test suite that’s playable at 1680 with the 6670. At 46fps you may want to turn off anti-aliasing to ensure smooth performance, but it should be doable. In this case the 6670 has a 9% lead over the 5670, while the 5670 in turn still has 5% on the 6570. However all of these cards are still well behind the likes of the GTS 450 and Radeon HD 5770.
Meanwhile at 1280 the story is much the same. Even without sacrificing anything beyond resolution and AA a number of cards crack 60fps, including both Turks cards.
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codedivine - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
Just a clarification:. I guess these don't support fp64?Ryan Smith - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
Correct. AMD only supports FP64 on the 5800, 5900, and 6900 series.haplo602 - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
6800 do not ?Ryan Smith - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
Also correct. The 6800 series (Barts) does not support FP64; AMD opted not to include it to save on die space.haplo602 - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
awww so my choices got reduced to the 5850 :-(Taft12 - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
At $150, 5850 is the obvious choice anyway (today - 6570/6670 launch day)http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...
Macabre215 - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
Eh. If this is your price point you might as well go with a 5670.Taft12 - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
Not if you want the 6xxx-series features.OzzieGT - Saturday, April 23, 2011 - link
Why? 5670 costs only $5 less on newegg right now and it uses more power. I would rather pay the extra $5 for the newest generation card if it offers the same performance.dagamer34 - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
Don't these cards do AMD 3D? That's the only reason for someone to upgrade a previous HTPC card to something with a Turks GPU.