| Sapphire 4890 Vapor-X - System Setup, Crysis, Left 4 Dead |
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| Written by Jeff_Tom | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Wednesday, 27 May 2009 23:41 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Here's our test system.
Our test system OS was Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit SP1 with the ATI Catalyst 9.5 drivers from AMD. V-sync was disabled. Forceware drivers were version 182.08. It should be noted that though our ATI Radeon 4890 had it's GPU clock speed bumped up 50MHz as was our BFG GeForce GTX 260 216 to 590MHz from 576MHz and 1296MHz for the memory from 1242MHz standard. Of course as mentioned the Sapphire is also overclocked but keep in mind our reference 4890 has slightly higher clock speeds as does our GTX 260.
Of all the games we tested Crysis seemed to show the biggest gains, perhaps due to using more memory bandwidth than the others despite the lower resolution Crysis: Warhead is full of detail.
Left 4 Dead continues to be a very popular multiplayer game thanks to Valve's touch but we don't see much gain here from the extra 75MHz memory clockspeed despite maxing out AA and AF settings.
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