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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

Crysis: Warhead:

By now, everybody who is anybody knows about Crysis, and its sequel, Crysis: Warhead.  So why don't we skip the pleasantries and get right to the torture.

This test, being especially brutal, required a reduction of overclock to 1020MHz on the core and 1050MHz on the memory. 

For this test, we ran the HD4890 Toxic through the same battery of tests at both stock and overclocked settings.  Each run consisted of multiple resolutions and AA settings, so that we could get a good feel as to how well the cards scaled.  All other settings were maxed out.  Click the pictures for a larger version.  First up, the single GPUs:

Benchmark Data:

4890 Toxic Stock 4890 Toxic OC
Min  Max Avg Min  Max Avg Gain
1280, 0x 27.34 45.41 37.32 30.19 48.77 39.21 5%
1280, 2x 23.98 39.15 32.28 24.99 42.18 33.78 5%
1280, 4x 21.45 41.38 32.1 23 43.26 33.51 4%
1280, 8x 18.16 38.94 29.39 19.73 40.94 30.65 4%
1680, 0x 22.54 36.66 29.96 23.77 38.02 31.55 5%
1680, 2x 18.97 31.17 25.72 19.18 32.33 26.95 5%
1680, 4x 17.73 32.37 25.69 18.3 33.31 26.85 5%
1680, 8x 13.78 30.33 23.5 15.33 32.23 24.51 4%
1920, 0x 17.96 30.32 25.02 19.56 32.25 26.29 5%
1920, 2x 14.86 26.5 21.38 16 27.14 22.4 5%
1920, 4x 14.1 28.13 21.43 14.29 28.67 22.37 4%
1920, 8x 11.21 24.5 19.02 12.1 25.67 19.67 3%
2560, 0x 10.13 19.54 15.58 11.32 20.2 16.43 5%
2560, 2x 8.51 16.83 13.23 8.77 17.13 13.83 5%
2560, 4x 1.95 15.9 12.02 4.78 16.44 12.75 6%
2560, 8x 0 6.9 5.03 0.077 8.36 4.94 -2%

Once again, I am very impressed by the AA performance of the 4000 series of video cards.  Performance of the HD4890 Toxic maintained playable performance all the way through the 1920-0x setting, again showing that the 1680x1050 is the sweet spot for a single card.  For the overclock, we were able to net an average gain of 5% for most settings. 

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