Assassin's Creed (DirectX 10)

All settings for all cards were at maximum with the exception being the 4850's Post FX being reduced from the highest of 3 to 2. The numbers give the 4870 a clearer win here, more so than the other games so far, however once again, the actual gameplay gives you a near identical experience with the HIS 4770. I'd be very happy to play through the game at 1680x1050, everything set to highest, on this 5770 card.

Crysis: Warhead (DirectX 10)

Now this is an interesting test, and it's also the first test that we've come across that I've had to significantly alter settings to match frame rates. The 4850 card had to be set to Gamer level settings. The 4870 happily runs at Enthusiast levels. The 5770 was for the most part at Enthusiast levels but to ensure similar framerates I had to lower the Post Processing to Gamer. The visual impact wasn't too big, but never-the-less it was a drop down from the 4870's levels. Crysis likes to use a lot of memory and a lot of memory bandwidth, so perhaps the 5770's 128bit bus is holding it back slightly (at least in this one game)?