3D Mark Vantage:
3DMark Vantage is a PC benchmark suite designed to test the DirectX10 performance of your graphics card. They’ve been making 3DMark for over 10 years, with each new edition using the latest 3D technology to determine real-world performance. A 3DMark score is an overall measure of your system’s 3D gaming capabilities, based on comprehensive real-time 3D graphics and processor tests. By comparing your score with those submitted by millions of other gamers you can see how your gaming rig performs, making it easier to choose the most effective upgrades or finding other ways to optimize your system. 3DMark is widely used by the PC industry, press and media as well as individual users and gamers, for comparing performance levels between whole systems or even specific components.
| Points | |
| Entry | 33,132 |
| Performance | 9,829 |
| High | 6,413 |
The difference between “Entry” and “High” for settings is quite drastic. Though the point system rated the card fairly decently the FPS seen by the GPU throughout the test was very mixed and did not do too well. However, there are many more benchmarks to look through and this card should not be determined by one test.
Unigine Tropics:
Unigine Tropics is a cross platform 3D engine. Specifically designed to push a GPU’s limits it features photorealistic 3D rendering. It all has support for DirectX 9, 10, 10.1 and OpenGL. It features a very lifelike “tropical” scenery with a dynamic sky and light scattering. The photo realism also goes further with “live” water, HDR rendering and special materials for vegitation. The benchmark mode comes in handy to give a full test of a GPU’s 3D rendering capabilities.
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AA = x8 / AF = x16 / all settings max |
FPS | Score |
| 1280 x 800 | 45.2 | 1138 |
| 1680 x 1050 | 33.2 | 836 |
The FPS in the Unigine Tropics test was very sound. The average 33.2 FPS in 1680 x 1050 showed no hesitation or stuttering at all during the test.
Everything dynamic and very positively! 🙂
Thank you
Thanks Erik, made my decision on what 4890’s im putting in crossfire
Hi Dan, I’m very interested to hear if you indeed set 2 cards in CrossfireX.
I ran 2 in CrossfireX and was very disappointed with the temps (over 105° celcious) when playing COD4 multiplayer. Of course alll settings were maxed out but that shouldn’t be a problem for these cards. I hope you had a better experience.
I have a well ventilated cabinet and good fans, so I don’t think that is the problem.
I have sent them back and am now waiting on a result from the e-tailer.
I hope they are faulty, if not then I’m afraid I’m not vapor-X’s biggest fan.
Please let me know how you got on.
Rather interesting. Has few times re-read for this purpose to remember. Thanks for interesting article. Waiting for trackback