HIS HD6970 CrossFireX Graphics Card Review

1. Introduction2. The Positioning, Architecture & New Catalyst Driver3. The HIS HD69704. Testing Methodology5. Synthetic: Unigine Heaven Benchmark6. Synthetic: Stone Giant7. Synthetic: TessMark8. Synthetic: ShaderToy Mark9. Image Quality: HQV BenchMark V210. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage11. Synthetic: 3DMark 1112. 1 screen: Alien V Predator13. 1 screen: Far Cry 214. 1 screen: Resident Evil 515. 1 screen: Tom Clancy HAWX 216. 1 screen: Mafia 217. 1 screen: Lost Planet 218. 3 Screen: F1 2010 @ 5760x108019. 3 Screen: Metro2033 @ 5760x1080 CFx20. 3 Screen: Left4Dead 2 @ 5760x1080 CFx21. Technical: Thermal Dynamics22. Technical: Power Consumption23. Technical: Acoustics Performance24. Technical: Overclocking25. Closing Thoughts26. View All Pages

Resident Evil 5, known in Japan as Biohazard 5, is a survival horror third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom. The game is the seventh installment in the Resident Evil survival horror series, and was released on March 5, 2009 in Japan and on March 13, 2009 in North America and Europe for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. A Windows version of the game was released on September 15, 2009 in North America, September 17 in Japan and September 18 in Europe. Resident Evil 5 revolves around Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar as they investigate a terrorist threat in Kijuju, a fictional town in Africa.

Within its first three weeks of release, the game sold over 2 million units worldwide and became the best-selling game of the franchise in the United Kingdom. As of December, 2009, Resident Evil 5 has sold 5.3 million copies worldwide since launch, becoming the best selling Resident Evil game ever made.

The HIS HD6970 is around 17 fps slower than the GTX580 at these settings, however both cards are capable of delivering insane levels of performance with this DX10 engine. Crossfire scaling is reasonable, increasing from 111 fps to 157 fps when enabled.

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