Clash of the Titans
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Single, Crossfire and TriFire VS GTX 285 Single, Dual and Tri Sli
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Due to the driver version available at the time of this review (catalyst 8.66) this article does not fully represent the true potential of 5870s. Click here for the latest Radeon 5870 Tri fire review with both 1GB and 2GB 5870s (Catalyst 10.9)
Introduction
Today's article is quite appropriately named "Clash of the Titans" for the pieces of hardware that we are going to show you today are some of the most ferocious beasts in the world of Computer Graphics. I have in front of me six pieces of high end nvidia and ATI Graphic Cards. I am talking about three HD 5870s and three EVGA GTX 285s.
We are going to feed these cards with an I7 @ 4.2 GHZ to see what they are capable of in some of the most graphically demanding PC gaming titles around. This is going to be one heck of a ride, so take a deep breath, sit back, relax and see how ATI's latest monster stands up against the tested and proven GTX 285s.
ATI's new Flagship Card
The Latest ATI Graphics card is the first GPU with DX11 rendering capabilities. Here is a list of some of the features of the card: 2.15 billion 40nm transistors
1600 Stream Processing Units
80 Texture Units
32 ROP Units
1 GB GDDR5 memory
DirectX® 11 support
ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology
ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU technology --Dual, triple, and quad GPU scaling
Putting things in perspective, the GTX 285 has 1.4 billion transistors, so 5870's transistor's count is 53% more.
Diamond Ati HD 5870
Related Reading : 5870 DX 11 performance and AA scaling
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