To show performance in games I decided to take five games out for a test drive on the HD 5850 card. The games include Resident Evil 5, Tom Clancy’s HAWX, Batman Arkham Asylum, Battle Forge and Crysis Warhead. These games are a mix of DirectX 10.0 and 10.1 games with a DirectX 11 game thrown in to boot. 1280x1024 and 1920x1200 resolutions were used as well as 4x AA and 16x AF.
Test System
- Core i7 920 CPU running 2.66GHz standard
- Intel DX58SO motherboard running latest drivers and BIOS
- XFX RADEON HD 5850 running Catalyst 9.9 drivers
- 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA HDDs running in RAID 0 mode
- 3GB Kingston KHK1600 DDR3-1600MHz memory running at 1333MHz (Maximum memory supported by Core i7 920 CPU)
- LG 16X DVD-RW drive
- Windows 7 Release to Manufacturer
- Cooler Master Hyper N620 CPU Cooler
- Cooler Master Ultimate 1000W PSU
Tests
DirectX 9.0
- BattleForge DirectX 10.0/11 (only on ATI 58xx cards)
- HAWX DX 10.0/10.1 (on ATI cards)
- Batman Arkham Asylum DX 10
- Resident Evil 5 DX10
- 3DMark06
- 3DMark Vantage
