« 1. Index 2. Package and Accessories 3. Features and Specifications 4. The Card 5. Overclocking and Test Setup 6. 3DMark and Furmark 7. Company of Heroes and Crysis 8. Conclusion »

First out of the gate is the suite of 3DMark benchmarks, while a synthetic benchmark they are widely considered the standard for comparing video card and system performance. Synthetic benchmarks don’t necessarily translate to real world performance, but give us a good comparison between cards with a standard scoring system. First I ran 3DMark06 on stock settings and then moved on to 3DMark Vantage. I ran Vantage on the following presets at default settings; Entry, Performance and High.

Gains are minimal from overclocking, however the impressive thing here is that the HIS HD 5570 more than doubles the scores from the Sapphire Radeon HD4550.

Next on the block is Furmark. Furmark is an OpenGL benchmark that renders a large ring of fur to stress and test the GPU. Here I ran at a resolution of 1680×1050 with 0 MSAA.

Results here mirror what we saw with the 3DMark benchmarks where again the HD 5570 doubles the mark of the HD 4550. However as you can see there are no gains from overclocking.

Enough with the synthetic benchmarks, time to throw some real games into the mix.

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