MSI RADEON HD 5870 REVIEW

"MSI Radeon HD 5870 review featuring MSI GeForce GTX 285. MSI Radeon HD 5870 has 24% higher core speed, 54% higher memory speed and 1360 extra Processing Shaders compared to MSI GeForce GTX 285. Software used for testing was Need for Speed Shift, Resident Evil 5 and Street Fighter IV."

MSI RADEON HD 5870

	SYSTEM INFORMATION
VIDEO CARD	MSI RADEON HD 5870
	MSI GEFORCE GTX 285
ATI DRIVER	CATALYST v9.10
PROCESSOR	AMD PHENOM II X4 920
MOTHERBOARD	MSI K9A2 PLATINUM AMD 790 FX
MEMORY	CORSAIR 4GB DDR2 XMS2 DOMINATOR
OPERATING SYSTEM	WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE

NEED FOR SPEED SHIFT

NORMAL QUALITY

	99
	76

HIGH QUALITY

	95
	54

EXTREME QUALITY

	83
	45

MSI RADEON HD 5870 MSI GEFORCE GTX 285

COMMENT - "MSI Radeon HD 5870 beats MSI GeForce GTX 285 by an amazing 37% with Need for Speed Shift."

RESIDENT EVIL 5

NORMAL QUALITY

	129
	109

HIGH QUALITY

	118
	100

EXTREME QUALITY

	100
	80

MSI RADEON HD 5870 MSI GEFORCE GTX 285

COMMENT - "The MSI Radeon HD 5870 beats the MSI GeForce GTX 285 by 17% with Resident Evil 5."

STREET FIGHTER IV

NORMAL QUALITY

	152
	131

HIGH QUALITY

	148
	120

EXTREME QUALITY

	143
	104

MSI RADEON HD 5870 MSI GEFORCE GTX 285

COMMENT - "The MSI Radeon HD 5870 puts in a good performance beating the MSI GeForce GTX 285 by 20% with Street Fighter IV."

FINAL RESULT

COMMENT - "The MSI Radeon HD 5870 gives a fantastic result against the MSI GeForce GTX 285 outperforming it by 22%. When you consider that the MSI Radeon HD 5870 is actually 10% cheaper than the MSI GeForce GTX 285 makes the MSI Radeon HD 5870 such a great buy. The MSI Radeon HD 5870 is also more future proof than the MSI GeForce GTX 285 which just supports DirectX 10 while the MSI Radeon HD 5870 is DirectX 11 and offers so much more Advanced Technology like ATI Eyefinity, 40nm Process, GDDR5 Memory and 2nd Generation TeraScale Engine etc!"

MSI RADEON HD 5870 SCORES 10/10!

MSI RADEON HD 5870 REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - MSI RADEON HD 5870 INTRODUCTION

PAGE 2 - 3DMARK 2006, 3DMARK VANTAGE AND CALL OF DUTY WORLD AT WAR

PAGE 3 - FALL OUT 3, FAR CRY 2 AND ENEMY TERRITORY - QUAKE WARS

PAGE 4 - NEED FOR SPEED, RESIDENT EVIL 5, STREET FIGHTER IV AND FINAL RESULT

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