Shootouts

AMD Radeon HD 7870 Five-Way Shootout

By James Lu - 25 Jul 2012

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 & Far Cry 2 Results

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Results

In our first gaming benchmark, we put our cards to the test with Battlefield: Bad Company 2's DX11 Frostbite 1.5 engine which, while old, is still a fairly taxing test, particularly at stressing a GPU’s geometry shading power. 

Within the HD 7870 camp, we again saw the custom cards improve on the reference score by about 5%, while scoring within 1% of each other, with Sapphire again trailing slightly behind.

However, unlike our performance benchmarks, this time the Radeon HD 7870 cards were unable to keep up with the Radeon HD 7950, which was about 4% better than the custom cards and 9% better than the reference HD 7870. In terms of actual gaming experience however, this difference was not all that noticeable.

Against the previous generation, the improvements were also not as impressive as before, with the reference HD 7870 outperforming the HD 6870 by only 25%, and losing to both the HD 6970 and NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580.

 

 

Far Cry 2 Results

Far Cry 2's DX10 engine is quite old now, and all of our cards handled it without difficulty. In fact, there was very little to separate them, with only the Radeon HD 6870 lagging behind. 

 

     

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