Furmark 1.7 - Adaptive Anti-Aliasing used at 8xMSAA, at 1920x1200 and 3360x1050; 60 second benchmark run.

Furmark

Furmark Eyefinity

Unigine Heaven - Adaptive Anti-Aliasing used at 8xMSAA, at 1920x1200 in DirectX 11 mode.

Heaven

STALKER C.O.P. Benchmark - Adaptive Anti-Aliasing used at 4xMSAA, at 1920x1200 and 3360x1050; 'Day' setting results used in Dx11 with HDAO using Direct Compute and Hardened Shadows.

STALKER

STALKER Eyefinity

First Round Summary

Here you can see the edges of the raw performance the HD5970 offers. It's marketed as the world's fastest graphics card - a name it lives up to quite easily, and it looks like there is no competition on the horizon until at least Q1 2010.

AMD's decision to maintain PCIe power specification requirements have paid off, with Alienware jumping to feature them in their product line up. The overclocking headroom and design show promise, for those who might consider a 5870 Crossfire-X setup but don't have the requisite motherboard or power supply; we'll look at that, and more performance results soon.  Stay tuned!

Overdrive

Overdrive

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