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Today we are going to look at how Crossfire scales with 2 5850 cards. We will use the Asus 5850 and the HIS 5850 as our pair of cards for these tests. We are going to re visit Vantage and Heaven Benchmark as our synthetic benchmarks and then move on to Metro 2033 and Crysis Warhead for some real life gaming comparisons.
Vantage uses DirectX 10 technologies and it scales very well in Crossfire. We saw significant gains across the board in this test.
Heaven Benchmark uses the latest DirectX 11 technology and can be a very demanding engine. It also happens to scale very well in our Crossfire testing once again producing significant gains.
Metro 2033 uses a very demanding game engine but produces state of the art visuals. Testing this game at 1080p resolution proved to be taxing on the 5850's in general. Even when running our Crossfire setup our minimum frames per second dropped as low as 21 FPS. We saw excellent scaling of our average frames per second almost doubling our average of 22. We also experienced noticeable increases in our maximum frames per second in this game with Crossfire enabled reaching as high as 65 FPS.
Looks like a good board, HIS seem to be making a name for t hemselves lately
Good review, shame they didnt allow voltage increases on this card, it would overclock much better.
HIS arent very well known here, but they have a full range of cards for sale and they seem to be well designed.
Cant seem to see it for sale locally here for some reason.
Not a bad looking card, but the 5850 seems to be a bit of a not so good deal now with the 460 out.
Seems a good card, but nothing specatular.
Anyone think this is a good buy now,. HD5850 is a little overprice now I think, well it is here.
HIS, never heard of them 😉
Well this seems a solid, if someone bland card by todays standards. noise levels are decent and performance is good, overclocking is poor though and thats what tends to sell specific 5850s.
Powercolor make a good 5850 which seems quieter and a little better value, but this is good too.
I like this card seems to be competitively priced in Europe.
Shame about the voltage support, it would have possibly reached 5870 performance if it handled it.