Performance in Third-Person 3D Shooters

Street Fighter IV

The junior model of the ATI Radeon HD 5700 series performs successfully, leaving its predecessor behind at high resolutions and being somewhat slower than it at low resolutions. The senior Radeon HD 5700 series model is no match to the Radeon HD 4890, but this is not a problem at all. The average frame rate is over 60fps at 2560x1600, which is more than enough even for first-person shooters that require much more accurate aiming.

Overclocking gives both cards a considerable boost, but has little practical value. On the other hand, overclocking can give you the performance of a Radeon HD 5770 for the price of a Radeon HD 5750.

Resident Evil 5

The junior Radeon HD 5700 model is preferable again. It is somewhat faster than the Radeon HD 4770, delivering a comfortable frame rate at 2560x1600. The faster Radeon HD 5870 cannot match the Radeon HD 4890 or GeForce GTX 275 although its performance is good enough for its price. You can have higher results by overclocking the card, yet the 128-bit memory bus acts as a bottleneck, The Radeon HD 5770 is slower than the Radeon HD 4890 and GeForce GTX 275 even when overclocked.

Performance in RPG

Fallout 3

We see the same picture in Fallout 3, the original game with all the add-ons. The ATI Radeon HD 5770 is inferior to the cards with wider memory bus but allows playing comfortably at 2560x1600. The bottom speed of the Radeon HD 5750 is barely comfortable at that resolution although is higher than that of the ATI Radeon HD 4770. You can get some reserve of speed by overclocking the junior model. And we don’t actually think that too many people will be using Radeon HD 5750 cards together with 30-inch monitors.