XFX HD5870 Black Edition Review

Metro 2033 is an action-oriented video game with a combination of survival horror, and first-person shooter elements. The game is based on the novel Metro 2033 by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. It was developed by 4A Games in Ukraine and released in March 2010 for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. In March 2009, 4A Games announced a partnership with Glukhovsky to collaborate on the game. The game was announced a few months later at the 2009 Games Convention in Leipzig;a first trailer came along with the announcement.

The game is founded around the 4A Engine which features complex artificial intelligence as well as enhanced lighting and environmental algorithms. The game also supports DX11 with Tessellation.

Testing was performed with maximum settings (all enabled including full volumetric texturing and soft particles) as well as triple AAA antialiasing and 16x texture filtering for the ultimate experience. This game is extremely demanding so higher resolutions are possible, however with the reduction of image quality – which the target audience will not be happy with.

The overclocked card shows a considerable frame rate improvement and the differences actually make the game playable on the Black Edition and not on the reference board. Settings would need to be lowered to compensate for sub 20fps.

Our worst case scenario shows that for a short while in a specific outdoors location the XFX board had a little difficulty keeping the FPS above the critical 25fps axis however this really wasn't that noticeable and the reference card was actually below 20fps at the same instances. A great set of results for XFX everything considered and a significant improvement when compared with the reference solution.

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