Conclusion

With the EAH5970 ASUS presents the arguably, fastest graphics card in the world. Despite the overwhelming performance this high-end graphics is astonishingly silent. This is especially impressive if you consider that the card is based on the reference design.

As we've already mentioned the ASUS EAH5970's performance has recently stepped up to a new level. Whilst running the 3DMark06 benchmarks we were able to spot a quite remarkable circumstance. Using a Core i7 CPU at 2.66 GHz clock speeds we got lower results than with using a 5870. After we increased the CPUs core clock to 3.33 GHz the 5970 managed to leap ahead. This shows the cards enormeous potential. In other words this means that we were able to point out that 3DMark06 slowly but certainly became outdated. In 3DMark Vantage the situation looks completely different. Because of the higher graphics load the EAH5970 is at this point able to show it's muscles and puts itself well ahead of the competitors. In Furmark you can see a drastic increase in performance and at this point you'll certainly be able to estimate the 5970's potential.
Within the real world applications, which in these cases are games, you will notice about the same as with the synthetic benchmarks. The actual performance the card delivers heavily depends on the game if it is well optimized or not. Therefore the performance advantages are ranged between 14 percent in X3 Terran Conflict and up to 80 percent in Streetfighter 4.

The ASUS EAH5970 definitely aims at hardware- and gaming-enthusiasts which do not want any compromises. This is just the logical conclusion from price and performance. The EAH5970 is also the right card for you if you're looking into the future and you want to buy a graphics card which will also in a year be able to perform well in all games. Therefore the 5970 would be a save investment.



The ASUS EAH5970 can be bought at Digitec to a price of CHF 799.- (est. EUR 533.-).

Author: Marc Voser, m.voser@ocaholic.ch Copy edited by: Marc Büchel, m.buechel@ocaholic.ch

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 9 - PT Boats
Page 2 - Specifications	Page 10 - X3 Terran Conflict
Page 3 -Preview	Page 11 - Streetfighter 4
Page 4 - Overclocking	Page 12 - World in Conflict
Page 5 - Testing conditions	Page 13 - Resident Evil 5
Page 6 - 3DMark 06	Page 14 - Call of Juarez
Page 7 - 3DMark Vantage	Page 15 - Far Cry 2
Page 8 - Furmark	Page 16 - Conclusion

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