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- Date:
- Monday , October 12, 2009
- Author:
- Brent Justice
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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AMD ATI Radeon HD 5770 and HD 5750 Review
Performance on a budget! That is what AMD is bringing you today with the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 5700 series. The new HD 5750 and HD 5770 are priced to sell, but don’t skimp on gaming performance, all while staying cool and power efficient. We have also added Resident Evil 5 and Batman: AA to our gameplay testing.
Crysis: Warhead
We are using the full version of Crysis: Warhead. We will be playing Warhead with the latest patches installed in 64-bit. We are playing the entire "Train" level. Our run-through starts off with us getting on the train, manning the gun turrets, and blowing up everything along the way as the train progresses down the tracks. We stop at the tower, perform the mission there, and continue on until the end.
Highest Playable Settings Radeon HD 5770
We think Crysis: Warhead is very bandwidth sensitive, and that seems to show here our evaluation. The Radeon HD 4870 1GB did provide a better gameplay experience, despite having the streaming processors clocked 100MHz slower than the Radeon HD 5770. We were able to turn Objects Quality, Volumetric Quality, Game/Post Processing and Particles Qualities all to "Enthusiast" on the Radeon HD 4870 1GB. Whereas, on the Radeon HD 5770 1GB we had to turn these features to "Gamer" spec. Even then, performance was still overall slower on the Radeon HD 5770 1GB.
Both video cards were playable at 1920x1200 however, and we were able to have Texture Quality, Physics Quality and Water Quality set at "Enthusiast" on the Radeon HD 5770 in comparison to the Radeon HD 5750. This plus the resolution being higher than the Radeon HD 5750 created a better experience than that card.
Highest Playable Settings Radeon HD 5750
With the Radeon HD 5750 1GB video card we had to set all in-game settings to "Gamer" at 1680x1050 to achieve playable performance, and it was right on the line of being playable. The GeForce GTS 250 performed a little better, but still achieved the same in-game settings as the Radeon HD 5750.
What is impressive is that the Radeon HD 5750 did provide a real upgrade from the Radeon HD 4770, which we had to set several in-game settings to "Mainstream" on. Therefore, the Radeon HD 5750 allows us to bring the game up to "Gamer" spec, where the Radeon HD 4770 was fairly paltry with several setting at "Mainstream."
Apples to Apples
We are testing at 1920x1200 with 4X AA at all "Gamer" settings to stress high resolution with AA in this game. Note that we encountered very slow performance with the GeForce GTS 250 at this setting and could not get it to complete a run-through because the framerates were literally in the single digits. Surprisingly, the Radeon HD 5750 and even HD 4770 did allow us to complete the test at these high settings.
Radeon HD 5770 Comparison
Here we can see that the Radeon HD 4870 1GB does edge out the Radeon HD 5770 1GB in performance, but not by a huge amount, it is very small.
Radeon HD 5750 Comparison
In this comparison you can see how much faster the Radeon HD 5750 is in comparison to the Radeon HD 4770, it is definitely an upgrade in performance.