Far Cry 2

It may not have much in common with the original Far Cry aside from its name, but Ubisoft's Far Cry 2 offers a fantastic graphical experience in its depiction of a war-torn Africa rife with mercenaries and various factions fighting one another. For our testing here, we've used the DirectX 10 rendering mode, with all in-game graphical details set to "Ultra High" to give these graphics boards a real test.

Again, 1680x1050 provides a playable experience on the Radeon HD 5670 in both its 512MB and 1GB flavours, with nothing to tell in pure performance terms between our HIS and ASUS boards.

Enabling anti-aliasing sees performance dip below thirty frames per second on average however in both cases, pushing it just outside of the realms of playability.

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Despite all of the controversy surrounding this title's use of NVIDIA's PhysX technology and its place in their "The Way It's Meant To Be Played" strategy, there can be no argument that Batman: Arkham Asylum is a contender for game of the year, and sports a fantastic Unreal Engine 3-based look to boot. We test here with everything set to their highest levels (PhysX aside which we disable, of course), using the game's built-in timedemo functionality.

While HIS' 512MB Radeon HD 5670 IceQ lags a little behind at 1680x1050, both Radeon HD 5670 boards bring forth playable performance in this title at this resolution to an impressive degree.

Even the hefty performance penalty that comes from forcing anti-aliasing via ATI's Catalyst Control Center isn't enough to dampen the spirits of these boards, as they both continue to provide playable performance even with 4x AA and 16x anisotropic filtering put to good use.  HIS' 512MB part also regains parity with our 1GB equipped ASUS board here to boot.