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Sapphire Radeon HD5870 Video Card Review
Author: Will West
Published: Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
COD: Modern Warfare 2 is a second installment in the Modern Warfare series and set sometime after the conclusion of COD4. The game is a very fast moving first person shooter that is known for its incredible single player story line and strong online multiplayer community. MW2 is one of the top grossing games of all time. Technology wise Modern Warfare 2 is based on DirectX 9 technology and really shows that game developers can still make incredible looking games from older technology.
For the testing of MW2 all setting was enabled with Extra set for all textures and 4X Anti-Alaising.
The Sapphire Radeon HD5870 performed on par with all the other cards, but was not much faster when compared to the older generations. Still, playing with this level of performance how much more do you need? The interesting thing is that the 5870 and the 4870X2 have very similar specs, but the 4870X2 does walk out the winner for performance in these tests.
We suspect with a few driver tweaks the scores here will even up nicely.
We suspect with a few driver tweaks the scores here will even up nicely.
