HIS vs EVGA Midrange Gaming Face Off Review
Resident Evil 5 DX9
Published: 29th October 2010 | Source: OC3D | Price: |
Resident Evil 5 DX9
As if to back up the point from the previous page, here is Capcoms Resident Evil 5. A game that both looks good and performs admirably on even a low-end gaming PC. As this has both DX9 and DX10 modes we thought we'd run both in both modes to see how well these cards handle the older DirectX framework that still makes up the large proportion of games you own and use.
Single GPU - Stock Speeds
Although all the cards on show can happily break 60FPS this is one of the few games that doesn't include tessellation or PhysX in some capacity and so is a purer test of raw horsepower. It's clear that the latest Radeons have an advantage here with the humble HD6850 being 20 and 10 frames per second ahead of the small and large GTX460s respectively.
Single GPU - Overclocked
When overclocked the GTX460 1GB regains a lot of the ground it lost at stock to be neck and neck with the HD6850. The 768MB GTX460 is clearly suffering from the smaller memory capacity and still lags behind.
Dual GPU - Stock
With two cards in place both solutions even themselves out with only a couple of frames between the two Radeons and barely a gnats chuff between the two GTX460s. Easily the oddest thing is the minimum frame-rate. It is very rare we see them almost the inverse of what we'd expected. The HD6850 in the right scenario is an absolute corker.
Dual GPU - Overclocked
Under the control of DirectX 9 we have about the 50% improvement over a single card that we used to see. It makes us wonder if the limitations of the extra performance in a dual card setup was related to the hardware or the DirectX itself. The more powerful versions of our cards on test, the HD6870 and the GTX460 1GB both just edge ahead of their stablemate. Let's see how they fair under DirectX 10.
Most Recent Comments
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Originally Posted by Todd
I'm wondering when Quad Xfire would start to make sense. |
Maybe a few. But I don't know any one with four GPUs apart from Diablo and AMD are not going to waste loads of money in resources to cater to one in fifty (at the most) people.
The problem is it's out of AMD/Nvidia's hands any way. It all falls back to game coders and none of them will bother. Why would you? That's like having a thousand English people in a hotel and because there's one German there you make Bratwurst and Sauercraut for all of them. It's just a waste of time and money for pretty much every one involved. Game makers, GPU manufacturers and so on. Take into account that Obsidian just released Fallout : New Vegas with all of the bugs problems and issues from the initial release of Fallout 3. If they were to get it perfect and get quadfire in there it would have taken ten years, not two. Take into account how long Valve have their games in development trying to get them perfect..
Going back to the review.. Crikey. I can not even begin to imagine the ammount of work that went into testing so many different configurations. Hats off guys, this is some of your best work yet. Also -
[editors note: like Hanibal & Murdock]
Who is the crazy one?
hehe that bit made me laugh. I can just see one of you dancing around the test bed.Also -
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i1...uron/cards.jpg
Interracial GPU gangbang ahoy !
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Originally Posted by murphy7801
Tom your getting better at crysis |
i want to have sex with that picture...
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
HAHAHAHA! It was one of the forum members Mr Strawberry playing |
lol must admit all them pictures of the GPUs do look awesome
Reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZVbVvZqBJM
Anyone who understands this is a true nerd.
am bit of noob so don't bash me
Cédric
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Originally Posted by Cedric
I've got a question about the dual card winner . The 6850 gets better results in higher end games ( i think ) in crossfire then 460 and the price is almost the same , so why don't you recommend the 6850 in crossfire ? am bit of noob so don't bash me Cédric |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
Because the 460 1GB's win out overall dude in the dual card segment. |
thanks in advance
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Originally Posted by Cedric
Sorry for asking this . So you would recommend the 460 1gb sli for general gaming and for high en the 6850 ? or only the 460 ? i just wannna get the best out of my money . thanks in advance |
dual of either would be epic tbh.
Id buy AMD cards for the cooler and quiet approach though tbh (personal preference)
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
what do you mean dude 6850 single or dual? dual of either would be epic tbh. Id buy AMD cards for the cooler and quiet approach though tbh (personal preference) |
Anyway i think its better to wait a couple of weeks because of the new series but for now am thinking about the 6850 cf cause thy cheaper and has little more fps( ~2 )then the 460 sli.
Crysis Warhead page - Single CPU: Stock 6870 performs far more better than overclocked 6870.
Explanation?
PSU problem...?:-)
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Originally Posted by phnikola
I am little bit unsure on reliability of results in this review. Crysis Warhead page - Single CPU: Stock 6870 performs far more better than overclocked 6870. Explanation? PSU problem...?:-) |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
PSU problem, ha friad not dude. Some times overclocking can end up giving you lower results, the card just didnt like it tbh. |
Hmmm, perhaps downclocking would give even better results....
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Time for the Middleweight Championship of the world. In the red corner the HD6850 and HD6870. In the Green corner the GTX460 768MB and 1GB.
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