XFX Radeon HD 5830 Video Card Review
Unigine Tropics
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Unigine is a 3D engine used by some games and simulations. The developer provides two demos for this engine, Tropics and Sanctuary. We ran the Tropics benchmarking module under DirectX 9 mode at full screen with image quality settings maxed out. The results below are the number of frames per second achieved by each video card.
| Tropics – Maximum | 1680×1050 | Difference |
| Radeon HD 5830 | 46.7 | |
| GeForce GTX 275 | 40.7 | 14.7% |
| GeForce GTX 260/216 | 35.3 | 32.3% |
| Tropics – Maximum | 1920×1200 | Difference |
| Radeon HD 5830 | 39.6 | |
| GeForce GTX 275 | 33.4 | 18.6% |
| GeForce GTX 260/216 | 28.8 | 37.5% |
