PowerColor HD 4850 PCS 2GB PCI-E
Crysis & Call of Duty 4 Results
Published: 16th August 2008 | Source: PowerColor | Price: TBA |
Call of Duty 4 is a stunning DirectX 9.0c based game that really looks awesome and has a very full feature set. With lots of advanced lighting, smoke and water effects, the game has excellent explosions along with fast gameplay. Using the in-built Call Of Duty features, a 10-minute long game play demo was recorded and replayed on each of the GPU's using the /timedemo command a total of 5 times. The highest and lowest FPS results were then removed, with an average being calculated from the remaining 3 results.
Starting off with the extremely popular CoD4, the higher stock memory clock of the reference ATI 4850 card gives it a 3-5fps advantage at all resolution settings. Unfortunately the 2GB frame buffer seems to have no positive effect for the PowerColor, even at high resolutions.
Crysis is without doubt one of the most visually stunning and hardware-challenging games to date. By using CrysisBench - a tool developed independently of Crysis - we performed a total of 5 timedemo benchmarks using a GPU-intensive pre-recorded demo. To ensure the most accurate results, the highest and lowest benchmark scores were then removed and an average calculated from the remaining three.
In all honesty we was expecting Crysis to take advantage of the larger frame buffer implimented on the PowerColor 4850, but this couldn't seem further from the case. As we can see from above, the stock ATI card manages a full 6-10fps more than the PowerColor, which in Crysis where FPS is far from plentiful, can be the difference between a slideshow and smooth gameplay.
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Nice review mate. Why oh why did they have to go and do that? I would have preferred some software (3DM06 etc) than extra memory that handicaps a card.Quote
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...any word on the Powercolor HD 4870 PCS+ tho? clocked up to 800MHz on the core and with a Zerotherm cooler...OCuk have it for £182ish at the moment but I've seen no reviews anywhere yet.
Also Asus have the EAH4870 TOP with stock cooler but 815MHz core....
I've seen a few reviews of the overclocked 4850s but if i'm dropping money i'll pay the extra for a 4870 or GTX 280 (depending on the 55nm version getting good reviews and not being eye-wateringly pricey). Want consistency too much to go for a dual GPU option when the biggest monitor i'm ever likely to have is a 24"
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Also Asus have the EAH4870 TOP with stock cooler but 815MHz core....
I've seen a few reviews of the overclocked 4850s but if i'm dropping money i'll pay the extra for a 4870 or GTX 280 (depending on the 55nm version getting good reviews and not being eye-wateringly pricey). Want consistency too much to go for a dual GPU option when the biggest monitor i'm ever likely to have is a 24"
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...any word on the Powercolor HD 4870 PCS+ tho? clocked up to 800MHz on the core and with a Zerotherm cooler...OCuk have it for £182ish at the moment but I've seen no reviews anywhere yet.
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QuoteAh well - that's a shame. Thought the pre-OC'd 4870 would be a hot one to review considering the fuss over the standard card....I shall have to keep my eyes open I guess!
(Not to mention comparing non-standard cooling given the issues in reviews over the temps on the stock cooler). Still - there are only so many hours in the day for reviewing!
The one on the 4870 is a different design than the 4850 so I wonder how they compare.Quote
(Not to mention comparing non-standard cooling given the issues in reviews over the temps on the stock cooler). Still - there are only so many hours in the day for reviewing!
The one on the 4870 is a different design than the 4850 so I wonder how they compare.Quote
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