« 1. Index 2. Package and Accessories 3. Features and Specifications 4. The Card 5. Installation and Overclocking 6. Testing Setup 7. 3DMark and Furmark 8. Left 4 Dead 2, Company of Heroes and Crysis 9. Conclusion »

First out of the gate is the suite of 3DMark benchmarks, while a synthetic benchmark they are widely considered the standard. 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.

Here the HD 5670 IceQ hangs with the Biostar 9600GT even though the Nvidia card gets a bit of a boost with Physx though that advantage disappears at the High performance preset which runs at a resolution of 1680×1050. What is also nice to see is fairly decent gains from the small overclock on the card.

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.

The HIS HD5670 IceQ easily outpaces the Biostar 9600GT and we again see a fairly decent gain (3 fps) when overclocked.

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

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