XFX ATI 4000 Series Round Up
Gaming Benchmarks
Published: 14th April 2009 | Source: XFX | Price: £130 - £330 |
Unreal Tournament 3 is the highly anticipated game from Epic Games and Midway. The game uses the latest Unreal engine, which combines fast gameplay along with high quality textures and lighting effects. All benchmarks were performed using UTbench with a fly-by of the DM-BioHazard map. As usual, all benchmarks were performed 5 times, with the highest and lowest results being removed and an average calculated from the remaining three.
Race Driver: Grid is a visually taxing game that presents a challenge to any graphics system. Results were recorded using FRAPS to log the average FPS over a 2 minute race. To ensure consistency, the same track, car and general path of travel was used in each of the 5 benchmark runs for each graphics card, with an average FPS being calculated from the median three results.
Call of Duty 4 is a stunning DirectX 9.0c based game that really looks awesome and has a very full feature set. With lots of advanced lighting, smoke and water effects, the game has excellent explosions along with fast game play. Using the in-built Call Of Duty features, a 10-minute long game play demo was recorded and replayed on each of the GPU's using the /timedemo command a total of 5 times. The highest and lowest FPS results were then removed, with an average being calculated from the remaining 3 results.
Results Analysis
The aging UTIII was certainly no match for any of the cards on test today with playability allowed at even the highest resolution and image quality. Much the same could be said regarding GRID but the blistering performance of the 4870X2 was not enough to make it the best bang per buck. For the 4870x2 to make monetary sense you will need to look to COD4 which had the 4870x2 by far the fastest card on test and also the best bang per buck despite it's £330 asking price.
The aging UTIII was certainly no match for any of the cards on test today with playability allowed at even the highest resolution and image quality. Much the same could be said regarding GRID but the blistering performance of the 4870X2 was not enough to make it the best bang per buck. For the 4870x2 to make monetary sense you will need to look to COD4 which had the 4870x2 by far the fastest card on test and also the best bang per buck despite it's £330 asking price.
Let's move on..
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Ah finally.
Awesome round up.
Seems like that the 4850 would be a good choice.
Awesome round up.
Seems like that the 4850 would be a good choice.
Great round up Rich. That must have taken a lot of work to put it all together 
All you need now is the 4890x2 to finish off the 48xx series
All you need now is the 4890x2 to finish off the 48xx series
Oh wow - great roundup, really nice work 
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Ah finally.
Awesome round up. Seems like that the 4850 would be a good choice. |
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Great round up Rich. That must have taken a lot of work to put it all together
All you need now is the 4890x2 to finish off the 48xx series |
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Oh wow - great roundup, really nice work
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Will crossfired 4890's suffice for now?
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You have been a busy boy! Nice work matey, kudos as ever :thumb:
Nice one Rich!!
Good to see some up to date figures. Just look at the CoD results. The X2 is quite a few frames over doubling the 4870 FPS.. Drivers and memory obviously helping but at least the theoretical power has actually happened in one game.
Good to see some up to date figures. Just look at the CoD results. The X2 is quite a few frames over doubling the 4870 FPS.. Drivers and memory obviously helping but at least the theoretical power has actually happened in one game.
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Great round up Rich. That must have taken a lot of work to put it all together
All you need now is the 4890x2 to finish off the 48xx series |
Nice roundup though, interesting results on the 4890
Great set of reviews.
Just a little typo on the first page, the spec table has two "Max Resolution Analog Vertical" rows with different values. but no "Max Resolution Digital Vertical" row.
Just a little typo on the first page, the spec table has two "Max Resolution Analog Vertical" rows with different values. but no "Max Resolution Digital Vertical" row.
Ta sorted.
Great review mate, looks like ATI have a great partner in XFX, Nvidia must be ever so slightly disappointed
Wonder if they have approached Sapphire as a return salvo
Now that really would make things intresting.
Nice review man. However, one thing I have no bleeding clue about is how these cards sit compared to older generation cards, in my case the 8800GT?
I've been out of the loop for a bit too long..
I've been out of the loop for a bit too long..
The 4850 would easily beat the 8800GT.
The 4870 is on a par with the GTX260 thereabouts, The 4890 is on a par with GTX275 and the 4870x2 is on a par with GTX295. Hope this helps.
The 4870 is on a par with the GTX260 thereabouts, The 4890 is on a par with GTX275 and the 4870x2 is on a par with GTX295. Hope this helps.
That's wicked, cheers. I think I'll be heading towards a 4870 and a new screen sometime soon
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