AMD’s Radeon HD 6670 & Radeon HD 6570: Two’s Company, Sub-$100’s A Crowd
by Ryan Smith on April 19, 2011 12:01 AM ESTBattleForge
Up next is BattleForge, Electronic Arts’ free to play online RTS. As far as RTSes go this game can be quite demanding, and this is without the game’s DX11 features.
As with Crysis, neither Turks card can reach 30fps at our usual 1680 settings and is more or less crushed by the 450/5770, so we’ll have to take a look at 1280. As BattleForge is a particularly shader-bound game, we’re seeing the best case scenario for the 6670 and 6570. The 6670 has a 14% lead on the 5670 and a 15% lead on the 6570. Meanwhile the 6570 is within 1% of the 5670, and 25% ahead of the 5570. If BattleForge didn’t show a tendency to also be ROP-bound at times, I’d expect to see the Turks cards take an even greater lead.
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codedivine - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
Just a clarification:. I guess these don't support fp64?Ryan Smith - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
Correct. AMD only supports FP64 on the 5800, 5900, and 6900 series.haplo602 - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
6800 do not ?Ryan Smith - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
Also correct. The 6800 series (Barts) does not support FP64; AMD opted not to include it to save on die space.haplo602 - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
awww so my choices got reduced to the 5850 :-(Taft12 - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
At $150, 5850 is the obvious choice anyway (today - 6570/6670 launch day)http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...
Macabre215 - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
Eh. If this is your price point you might as well go with a 5670.Taft12 - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
Not if you want the 6xxx-series features.OzzieGT - Saturday, April 23, 2011 - link
Why? 5670 costs only $5 less on newegg right now and it uses more power. I would rather pay the extra $5 for the newest generation card if it offers the same performance.dagamer34 - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - link
Don't these cards do AMD 3D? That's the only reason for someone to upgrade a previous HTPC card to something with a Turks GPU.