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Review by:

Joe

Edited by:

Scott

Review date:

June 8th, 2009

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Sapphire HD4890 1GB Toxic PCI-e Video Card

X3: Terran Conflict:

X3: Terran Conflict is a relatively new benchmark here at ClubOC, but it is one of my favorites.  If you are not familiar with the "X" games, they are well worth checking out.  The benchmark, known as the "Rolling Demo" is available here.

X³: Terran Conflict is a brand new, stand-alone game set in the universe of X³. It is the culmination of the X trilogy, with a grand finale that takes us all the way back to Earth's own solar system. Gamers can take on the roles of different characters in the X universe, or of a Terran military pilot, and experience a multitude of stories in the largest X universe ever featured - for X³: Terran Conflict will offer more missions than any other X game before.

For the all testing, the settings were completely maxed out, with the test being run at 1680x1050, 8xAA, and 16xAF.

Video Settings During Benchmark:
Screen Resolution: 1680 x 1050 * [32], full screen
Using Shader Profile: 3.0
Antialias Mode: 8x
Anisotropic Mode: 16x

Graphics & Shader Settings:
Texture Quality: high
Shader Quality: high
High Quality Bumpmaps: enabled
Environment Mapping: enabled
Glow Filter: enabled
Ship Color Variations: enabled
More Dynamic Lights: enabled
Used Vertexsize: 28 bytes

  Trade Fight Build Think
4890 Toxic Stock 64.1 124.5 158.2 67.9
4890 Toxic OC 63.6 126.0 164.5 71.9

The X3:Terran Conflict demo is notorious for loving clock speeds, both on the GPU and the CPU.  The overclocked 4890 Toxic actually lost about half a frame in the first test, but gained by 1.2% in the second test, 4% in the third test, and 5.9% in the fourth test.  The stock Toxic ran for a total average of 103.7 FPS, while the overclocked Toxic reached 106.5 FPS, making for a 2.7% overall gain. 

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