3DMark Vantage:

3DMark® Vantage is the new industry standard PC gaming performance benchmark from Futuremark, newly designed for Windows Vista and DirectX10. It includes two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, and support for the latest hardware. 3DMark® Vantage is based on a completely new rendering engine, developed specifically to take full advantage of DirectX10, the new graphics API from Microsoft.  3DMark Vantage can also test your video card in several different ways. 

For the purposes of our bench, we will be testing with the Performance, High, and Extreme Presets.  Here are our results:

Vantage Performance:

In this test, the 4890 takes a 18.1% lead over the Toxic 4870, which is a substantially larger lead than the stock 4890 over the stock 4870 Toxic. 

Vantage High:

Even better, the XXX edition scootches to a 21% lead with the Vantage High preset. 

Vantage Extreme:

On Extreme, the 4890 rocks the 4870 to an 18.7% lead.  Again, the overclocking potential really stretches the lead out here. 

3DMark06:

Futuremark's 3dMark06 has long been the go-to benchmarking tool when it comes to synthetic benchmarking.  Love it or hate it, there is no question that 3DMark06 has been the measuring stick of video card performance industry wide for several years.

I will be using Version 1.1.0 professional.  The free downloadable version can be found here.

Unlike our original test, the 4890 XXX edition really blows the doors off, with a 15.5% lead over the overclocked 4870.  This is what overclocking is all about.

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