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HIS HD6870 CrossFireX Review

Tom Clancy HAWX is set in the same universe as Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter; as Captain Scott Mitchell, the Ghost leader, is featured in a few missions of the missions. Plot elements are carried over from other Tom Clancy games such as the missile defense system found in Tom Clancy’s EndWar. G4′s interview with H.A.W.X’s lead designer Thomas Simon reveals that the game takes place in between Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 and Tom Clancy’s EndWar.

The player begins the game in 2014 as the player assumes the role of former U.S. Air Force pilot, David Crenshaw, who is part of an elite unit called H.A.W.X (“High Altitude Warfare eXperimental squadron”), provides fire-support missions for the Ghost team carrying out covert operations in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. However, shortly after the mission, the Air Force decides to deactivate the H.A.W.X squadron and its pilots, including Crenshaw, are recruited into the PMC Artemis Global Security.

We are testing : DX 10.1 with shadows high, sun shafts high, ambient occlusion (SSAO) very high. view distance high, forest high, environment high, texture quality high, HDR on, Engine heat on and DOF on.

HD6870 scaling in Tom Clancy HAWX is very good however the eVGA GTX460 FTW manages to outperform the Crossfire solution by a considerable margin. In single mode the HD6870 scores around the same as the MSI GTX460 Talon Attack which is impressive.

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11 comments

  1. Boring reference design but crossfire performance is fantastic.

  2. Their pricing is fantastic, there are price wars aplenty right now, they seem to be dropping every day !

  3. HD6870 is still disappointing I think compared to 6850, but we will only be able to judge it when third party versions hit the market.

  4. These are down to 179 quid in the UK today !

  5. The pricing is different on every store I visit,. its a bit of a nightmare getting set figures for either 70 or 50.

  6. wicked. two 6850s in CFX for me.

  7. Excellent pricing but 460 is still good

  8. I like the fact they have quietened the card down compared to reference design, however does anyone like the reference cooling? seems madness to buy now when we all know that better coolers will be announced for the same price in a month.

  9. The 6870s are impressive but the 6850’s are bullshit because amd sumbitted 6850 with 1120 cores(6870) instead of 960 or whatever which proves that the results for the 6850 were just liek downclocked 6870s

  10. as I said in the other discussion. not all 6850s had the higher count.

  11. I realised sorry 🙂