XFX HD 4890 XXX 1GB PCIe Graphics Card
Futuremark benchmarks
Published: 2nd April 2009 | Source: XFX | Price: £240.00 |
3DMark is a popular synthetic gaming benchmark used by many gamers and overclockers to gauge the performance of their PC's. All 3DMark runs were performed a total of 5 times, with the highest and lowest results being removed and an average calculated from the remaining 3 results.
Results Analysis
ATI cards always seem to do well in the 3DMark series of benchmarks and the 4890XXX is no different. Outscoring it's forbear, the 4870XXX and the stock 4890 as well as beating the GTX285 at all but the highest resolution goes some way to initially prove the XFX 4890XXX's worth.
The card does struggle in 3DMark Vantage though where NVidia cards take the (ad)Vantage through PhysX processing. I still prefer to use Vantage with PhysX enabled as it is a feature of Nvidia cards, much the same as I will also run benchmarks with DX10.1 in favour of ATI (when they appear).
ATI cards always seem to do well in the 3DMark series of benchmarks and the 4890XXX is no different. Outscoring it's forbear, the 4870XXX and the stock 4890 as well as beating the GTX285 at all but the highest resolution goes some way to initially prove the XFX 4890XXX's worth.
The card does struggle in 3DMark Vantage though where NVidia cards take the (ad)Vantage through PhysX processing. I still prefer to use Vantage with PhysX enabled as it is a feature of Nvidia cards, much the same as I will also run benchmarks with DX10.1 in favour of ATI (when they appear).
Most Recent Comments
Nice review!
Might want to check the spelling of hawx as you seem to have it as hawkx. On the last page and first.
Might want to check the spelling of hawx as you seem to have it as hawkx. On the last page and first.
Sorted ta
What a strange shape box...
Still nothing groundbreaking. It's getting to the stage where it might just be worth £200 to upgrade form the 8800 series...
Still nothing groundbreaking. It's getting to the stage where it might just be worth £200 to upgrade form the 8800 series...
nice review!Wish I could afford to upgrade,as Ham says these cards look to be a good upgrade from the 8800's.Did you try these cards in crossfire?I have just read over at tpu that in crossfire they blow away almost everything,can you confirm?
Looks at 4870's and crys, still not used them and now I want these AARRRGGGHHH
Nice review dude.... whats your address again?
Nice review dude.... whats your address again?
Crossfire review will be coming very soon but I got a couple of other fish to fry first. I'll be testing them out asap as it might just top topple the GTX295/4870x2.
My address is of a national security issue I'm afraid
My address is of a national security issue I'm afraid
OMG, 1000 core 1200 mem, that is imprassive. these hd4890's walk all over the gtx 275 for bang per buck, and at this oc the perform on the par with a gtx285! wow.
All i need now is a x48 mobo and xfire a pair of these and spin them at 1000mhz core, that would be sweet.
All i need now is a x48 mobo and xfire a pair of these and spin them at 1000mhz core, that would be sweet.
I still think that its worth waiting for the 5800 range, these are basicaly overclocked die shrunk 4870's. Still if you are in the market to buy now then these can be had pretty cheap 
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Originally Posted by name='cl0ck_ed'
OMG, 1000 core 1200 mem, that is imprassive. these hd4890's walk all over the gtx 275 for bang per buck, and at this oc the perform on the par with a gtx285! wow.
All i need now is a x48 mobo and xfire a pair of these and spin them at 1000mhz core, that would be sweet. |
XFX are giving a price of £240, which I'd take as an rrp, undoubtably the online competitors would look to discount that a bit. Some £34 by Scan's standard.
I look at Scan, and their hottest selling GTX285 from ASUS is £240.
Appreciating that the stock 4890 from XFX is £140 at Scan, which is what I'd expect, and they sell their cheapest in-stock GTX275 for £178. How much bang for buck u get for physx, I dunno.
What exactly is going on here with this XXX edition ? From a stock card £140 to a XXX edition is some £66 ? For an OC ur driverset can give u and a standard cooler.
I would hope XFX are not overpricing these deliberately, as it's not the addition to the AMD family their fans would expect.
Great review, good card, overpriced in comparison to it's own range imo.
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Appreciating that the stock 4890 from XFX is £140 at Scan, which is what I'd expect, and they sell their cheapest in-stock GTX275 for £178. How much bang for buck u get for physx, I dunno. What exactly is going on here with this XXX edition ? From a stock card £140 to a XXX edition is some £66 ? For an OC ur driverset can give u and a standard cooler. |
Now that really is a weird situation, £160 for the 1Ghz with HAWX.
£206 for the 900Mhz "slower" card.
Have a feeling the black edition isn't going to be restocked tho. But seriously a slower card, £46 more ? XFX's logic is what ?
£206 for the 900Mhz "slower" card.
Have a feeling the black edition isn't going to be restocked tho. But seriously a slower card, £46 more ? XFX's logic is what ?
I've purposely bumped this as I was just looking at Scan's line-up of GTX285 cards with a colleague.
XFX have a XXX 285, 670Mhz, priced £252 - and a 648Mhz priced @ £282.
Something smells.
They going eol with older, quicker cards, and bringing newer slower lines for £30/50 more ? If I were a journalist I'd be asking XFX some serious questions.
XFX have a XXX 285, 670Mhz, priced £252 - and a 648Mhz priced @ £282.
Something smells.
They going eol with older, quicker cards, and bringing newer slower lines for £30/50 more ? If I were a journalist I'd be asking XFX some serious questions.
isn't it scan pricing not xfx? xfx must have madfe loads of the quicker cards to sell them for a cheaper price than the slower
As above, I would think that this was scans pricing not XFX.
I'll see if I can get hold of XFX to get their take on it although I can tell you they will not comment on there distributers pricing strategies.
I'll see if I can get hold of XFX to get their take on it although I can tell you they will not comment on there distributers pricing strategies.
ive just got my 4890 xxx to 1Ghz core clock,and regarding Scan priceing they have always done crazy things like this its best to go instore sometimes as when i got my old AMD dualcore it was was on todayonly for £65 i whent instore and got it for £40 crazy aye
The box look really good
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XFX HD 4890 XXX 1GB PCIe Graphics Card