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Sapphire Radeon HD5870 Video Card Review
Author: Will West
Published: Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Left 4 Dead 2
With flesh eating zombies coming after you in endless waves Left 4 Dead 2 does push your hardware beyond what is seen in most games. The storyline is simple; you and 3 survivors are dropped into the middle of a zombie apocalypse and must find safety among the hordes of dead.
Left 4 Dead 2 is based on DirectX 9 technology and plays well on a variety of hardware.
Left 4 Dead 2 is based on DirectX 9 technology and plays well on a variety of hardware.
All of the settings were turned up to the highest with 8x Anti-Aliasing and 16x Anotropic filtering for all of the resolutions.
Left 4 Dead 2 is a very forgiving game based on an older game engine and plays quite well on everything, but to play the game at the highest settings is just a treat. The Sapphire Radeon HD5870 pulls in a whooping 20FPS over the other single chip GPU card the GTX285. However the Radeon HD4870X2 still walks away with a small win over the HD5870.
Also take note of the 1680x1050 180FPS cap. You'll see this happen in the Overclocked section as well.
Also take note of the 1680x1050 180FPS cap. You'll see this happen in the Overclocked section as well.
