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Farcry 2 is one of the few games that really do take advantage of multi core processors beyond 2 cores. This was to negate the effect of the central processing unit as much as possible. The DX 10 exclusive benchmark shows how powerful the 5970 is as compared to the 5870. The 5970 starts to distance itself from its younger sibling at lower resolutions, but both are pretty much neck and neck until again AA is cranked up. You will definitely need a very powerful CPU to get the most out of either of these cards, especially a 5970. The Benchmarks run pretty much neck to neck all the way upto 1920x1200 when AA is cranked up. Though the benchmark is very old, it still provides an insight into the “monstrous” performance of the card. Hard drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 7200RPM.Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16GHz.
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Now let’s put it where it belongs inside our test rig. On paper the Radeon 5970 looks like an absolute beast. I’ll cut the rest of the chitchat and get straight to the numbers that you’ve all been waiting for. This is how the 5970 achieves such a low power consumption in the idle state. ULPS forces the slave ASIC to go into a low power state when the card is not being stressed enough or can deliver enough performance from a single core. This can be enabled on all Evergreen multi GPU configurations but here on the Hemlock board one can see the biggest advantage. You may already be familiar with these features but I’d like to bring your attention to the power saving feature known as ULPS.
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#Opengl 4.3 5970 series#
The feature list for the Evergreen series is nearly never ending but I’ll highlight some of the newest features ATI has brought forward with its new line of GPUs. Be sure to have a minimum of 600+ Watt power supply if you don’t want to run into trouble.
#Opengl 4.3 5970 full#
This card requires a full tower casing as it is 13.5” long and requires an 8pin and 6pin power connector. I only had the card for a few hours so I couldn’t play around with it much. What’s nice about this card is that AMD ATI fully unlocks the overdrive on these cards so if you’re lucky you may be able to push the clocks much higher. Some may call this card the 5870x2 but I think it quite doesn’t deserve that title as it runs at a lower engine (725MHz) and memory clock (1000MHz) compared to the RD5870’s 850MHz and 1200MHz engine and memory clocks respectively. Hemlock is based on the same RV870 architecture as the RD5870 and RD5850. Today ATI launches their top of the line dual-GPU graphics card the Radeon 5970 ($600 MSRP) codenamed Hemlock.