Asus EAH 4890 1GB DDR5 PCIe Graphics card
Gaming Benchmarks continued
Published: 2nd April 2009 | Source: ASUS | Price: £206.99 |


Oblivion from Bethseda is now an 'old' game by today's standards, but is still one of the most visually taxing games out there. The benchmark was run in the wilderness with all settings set to the maximum possible. Bloom was used in preference to HDR. The test was run five times with the average FPS then being deduced.

Ubisoft has developed a new engine specifically for Far Cry 2, called Dunia, meaning "world", "earth" or "living" in Parsi. The engine takes advantage of multi-core processors as well as multiple processors and supports DirectX 9 as well as DirectX 10. Running the Far Cry 2 benchmark tool the test was run 5 times with the highest and lowest scores being omitted and the average calculated from the remaining 3.
Much the same set of results were to be had in the last three game tests I ran. Crysis and Far Cry 2 clearly preffered the Nvidia cards with the 4890 lagging behind but still beating it's stablemate, the overclocked 4870. Oblivion showed some promise with the 285 and 4890 evenly matched. That is until once again the resolution was maxed out with additional AA added.
Let's head over to the conclusion where I will shed some thought on the Asus EAH4890..,
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Couple of lil edits to be made too:
2nd to last page:
Let's head over to the conclusion where I will shed some thought on the XFX GTX295..,
Also on page 5 the 4890 gets beat by the 285 at all three res's and the 295 at two res's in UTIII:
Results Analysis
Interestingly, the 4890 comes second only to its bigger brother, the 4870x2 in UTIII and the ATI favoured GRID.
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Originally Posted by name='Bungral'
Nice review as ever mate.. Not a bad looking card and loving the overclocks.. How much extra does the voltage tweaker give you to play with?
Couple of lil edits to be made too: 2nd to last page: Also on page 5 the 4890 gets beat by the 285 at all three res's and the 295 at two res's in UTIII: |
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Originally Posted by name='w3bbo'
Edited. I added the NV results at the last minute. Iirc the voltage goes to 1.35.
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1.35 from what at stock?


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