Tom Clancy’s HAWX

The benchmark utility is integrated in the game, and all the high quality settings were chosen, except for the ambient occlusion, left at low. The tests were done in DirectX 10 and 10.1 and AA 4x.

Values are expressed in FPS

DirectX 10

PowerColor PCS+ Radeon HD 5870 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 reference

- 2560 x 1600 - 143
- 1920 x 1200 - 173
- 1680 x 1050 - 184
- 1280 x 1024 - 197

Reference values:

- 2560 x 1600 - 133
- 1920 x 1200 - 162
- 1680 x 1050 - 169
- 1280 x 1024 - 185

Sapphire HD 5850 Toxic vs ATI Radeon HD 5850 reference

- 2560 x 1600 - 129
- 1920 x 1200 - 152
- 1680 x 1050 - 163
- 1280 x 1024 - 180

Reference values:

- 2560 x 1600 - 120
- 1920 x 1200 - 146
- 1680 x 1050 - 158
- 1280 x 1024 - 168

DirectX 10.1

PowerColor PCS+ Radeon HD 5870 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 reference

- 2560 x 1600 - 88
- 1920 x 1200 - 124
- 1680 x 1050 - 133
- 1280 x 1024 - 157

Reference values:

- 2560 x 1600 - 84
- 1920 x 1200 - 115
- 1680 x 1050 - 130
- 1280 x 1024 - 143

Sapphire HD 5850 Toxic vs ATI Radeon HD 5850 reference

- 2560 x 1600 - 79
- 1920 x 1200 - 104
- 1680 x 1050 - 113
- 1280 x 1024 - 116

Reference values:

- 2560 x 1600 - 77
- 1920 x 1200 - 101
- 1680 x 1050 - 112
- 1280 x 1024 - 114

The game tests have shown exactly what was expected: the higher frequencies give better performance than the reference models. In the case of the Sapphire’s solution, with a small overclock, the performance can get closer to the HD 5870 as well: the performance gap is closed by higher frequencies to compensate for the less number of shaders, in that case.