HIS HD 5670 IceQ 512MB Video Card
Feb 13th, 2010 | By JaredGames are a big factor in many consumers’ purchasing decisions. And while the HD 5670 may not be the hardcore gamers choice in cards, that doesn’t mean it can’t play games.
The first game up is Left 4 Dead 2. The Left 4 Dead series lets us live out our zombie apocalypse fantasies and the second in the series comes with a tweaked Source engine for better visuals. We have seen in the past that the Source engine is quite efficient on all levels of cards. For the testing I used a recorded timedemo from The Park chapter of The Parish campaign. All settings were set to high with 4x AS and 4x MSAA.
Left 4 Dead 2 is where we find the biggest gains from overclocking. At 1280×1024 the HD 5670 IceQ comes close to even the XFX HD 4890.
Next we will hit a slightly more demanding game in Company of Heroes. I used the built in benchmark and set everything to high and let it rip.
Very solid numbers here though I think it’s safe to assume that the CPU is becoming a bottleneck in this test.
The final test will be with Crysis. Crysis obviously needs no introduction as a system killer when it comes to performance. All settings were set to high with no AA and the built in GPU benchmark was used.
Results here show a back and forth with the Biostar 9600GT and the HIS HD 5670 IceQ. While the numbers under the higher resolution are not really playable, you can easily reduce some visuals to be able to play smoothly. These are pretty impressive performance results for an entry level card.
