Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.

We decided to use this game as one of the few titles supporting DirectX 10.1. The release notes for Catalyst 9.5 don’t mention it in any way that is why we didn’t anticipate anything especially interesting here. However, Radeon HD 4890 CrossFireX tandem suddenly demonstrated a pretty serious gain, about 30%, and the subjective level of gaming comfort has also increased significantly. We don’t know what specific optimizations have been put in place there; the improvements may have been applied to the algorithms for work with video memory or CrossFire logic. One thing, however, is certain: the H.A.W.X. fans who own two radeon HD 4890 cards and 30” monitors will be very pleased with this performance gain. We would strongly encourage them to upgrade to Catalyst 9.5.

Unigine Tropics DX9

Unfortunately, this benchmark doesn’t support 2560x1600 resolution, however, it become the only test where all participants performed stably faster in all resolutions. The biggest performance gain belongs to Radeon HD 4890 CrossFireX and reaches 10-14%. Single-GPU solutions performed a little more modest and gained around 7-12%. However, it is more than enough for ATI’s promises to be considered fulfilled.