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Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850
Game Benchmarking
The following games will be used to test the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD4850:
-Half Life 2: Episode 2
-Call of Duty 4
-Crysis
Half Life 2: Episode 2
Half Life 2E2 is a popular game, and just like for Crysis and Call of Duty 4, the prospective graphics card shopper will want to know how the card can handle the graphics of games with which they may already be familiar. To benchmark using this game, I will be using a program called FRAPS, which upon pressing F11, it will record the frames-per-second response and calculate the minimum, maximum and average up until the point at which F11 is again pressed. In addition, HL2E2 provides a built-in benchmark by providing the average FPS in the terminal after the time demo has run.
The time demo is a recording that was previously made for the purposes of graphics card reviews here at TechwareLabs. The opening sequence of the game was captured with the intent of having a lot of movement, and mostly involves throwing various objects at the girl and eventually witnessing the energy blast.
Call of Duty 4
Similar to the above, FRAPS is used here to gather the data. The time demo was previously recorded during a multiplayer game with a lot of action and explosives. Again, it is a standard to be used within reviews conducted at TechwareLabs.Crysis
For Crysis, a program called the Crysis Benchmarking Tool is to be used. This is a straight-forward program where you can select all of the settings and click "run." The program will then launch Crysis and the camera will rotate around a 3D environment, and output the minimum, maximum and average frames-per-second. The demo is the same for every run so the numbers achieved can be referenced whenever this benchmark is used.
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