ATI Radeon CrossFireX Review - Battle Forge

Submitted by skipclarke on 20 July, 2010 - 20:49

Article Type: 
Review

CrossFireX Scaling

HD 5870 E6 2GB CFX
  1680x1050 1920x1200
WS 81% 87%
EF 77% 73%

 

HD 5870 1GB CFX
  1680x1050 1920x1200
WS 79% 87%
EF 95% 67%

 

HD 5850 1GB CFX
  1680x1050 1920x1200
WS 89% 87%
EF 73% 50%

 

HD 5770 1GB CFX
  1680x1050 1920x1200
WS 89% 88%
EF 85% 50%

Battle Forge is the free-to-play RTS from Electronic Arts. It offers a steampunk/fantasy RTS experience, where armies are build based on "decks" of cards similar to the Magic: The Gathering card game.

Battle Forge is one of ATI's spotlight (my terminology) games for the HD 5000 series cards, as it offers both DX11 and proper Eyefinity support. The game offers a number of DX11 features, and a wealth of options for tuning performance. Specifically, Battle Forge uses DX11 and Shader Model 5.0 to compute HighDefinition Ambient Occlusion (HDAO). For our tests we maxed out all of the settings and forced DX11 through the config.xml file.

The test is actually quite strenuous with the number of objects, effects and particles on the screen at one time. In most instances, the scaling is averages 80%. The two instances with considerably lesser scaling are the HD 5850 and 5770 at 5760x1200.



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