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Power Color HD 4870
Gaming:
Three games were tested with the card setups: Crysis, Call of Duty 4, and Half Life 2: Episode 2.
Crysis:
About Crysis:
Crysis, a science fiction first person shooter set in the year 2020. You play as Lieutenant Jack Dunn, codename "Nomad", a United States Army Delta Force operative. The game starts out with a group of archaeologists doing research on an island in the South China Sea. As they were doing their research, minding their own business, they suddenly became overrun and taken captive by the North Korean Army. This is when the US Delta Forces were deployed to rescue the scientists. As the game goes on, you soon find out that the North Koreans are not the only threat on this island. Crysis, released towards the end of 2007, uses DirectX 10 and is currently the most demanding game out there.
Benchmarking Crysis:
For testing Crysis, we are going to be using a third party program very similar to FRAPS. This program is called "Benchmarking Tool for Crysis". With this we can tell it to render the timedemo multiple times and then generate a word file once completed with the results from every test. You can easily change game settings and how the benchmark will be performed.
For testing purposes we are going to be using the latest version of the game, version 1.21, which claims it enhances the performance of both single and multiple GPU processors.
Results:
Crysis |
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| GFX Card | Quality | 1680x1050
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1280x1024
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| PowerColor HD4870, qx16 Anti-Aliasing, DX10 | Very High |
17.8 |
27.31 |
High |
33.61 |
46.08 |
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Medium |
58.51 |
64.8 |
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| Palit HD4870, qx16 Anti-Aliasing, DX10 | Very High |
17.3 |
27.34 |
High |
34.81 |
46.18 |
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Medium |
58.29 |
65.0 |
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| Crossfire, qx16 Anti-Aliasing, DX10 | Very High |
24.3 |
32.98 |
High |
39.76 |
45.31 |
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Medium |
49.27 |
56.69 |
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From the graph above, we see that nothing is consistently better than another setup. The highest FPS is achieved by the Palit HD4870 on Medium settings, while the lowest is also the Palit HD3870 on Very high. The PowerColor HD 4870 doesn't seem to perform as high as the Palit though, and the Crossfire isn't consistently better either.
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