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Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 Flex Video Card Review
Author: Will West
Published: Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Aliens VS Predator - Gaming with Eyefinity
In space no one can hear you scream, but if you are a human in AVP that will be the only thing you will be doing. The game is based off of the movies and comic books series that has been done before, but this is the much bigger and better reboot of the game series. AVP is a full DX11 game with some serious Tessellation at work to test any modern GPU.
Setting used for testing is as follows.
Texture Quality: Very High
Shadow Quality: High
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
SSAO: ON
Vertical Sync: OFF
DX11 Tessellation: ON
DX11 Advanced Shadows: ON
DX11 MSAA Samples: 4x
Note: 5760 x 1080 resolution results are without Anti-Aliasing
Texture Quality: Very High
Shadow Quality: High
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
SSAO: ON
Vertical Sync: OFF
DX11 Tessellation: ON
DX11 Advanced Shadows: ON
DX11 MSAA Samples: 4x
Note: 5760 x 1080 resolution results are without Anti-Aliasing
On a single display setup the Radeon HD 6870 Flex does a pretty good job at keeping frame rates high enough for gaming. With some tweaking even the 2560 x 1600 resolution will be silky smooth, but this is the Flex Edition and that means we want to take full advantage of Eyefinity here. Once again with some ramping down of the graphics the Radeon HD 6870 will make a great multi-display setup for AVP.
