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Review date:

10/4/2008
 

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Company of Heroes DirectX 10 Patch

  1680 x 1050 1920 x 1200
Sapphire 3870 Toxic
Min 20.9
Max 61.5
Avg 36.9
Min 15.7
Max 53.3
Avg 30.4
XFX 8800GTS Alpha Dog Edition
Min 10.7
Max 60
Avg 38.9
Min 7.9
Max 60
Avg 34.7
XFX 9800GTX
Min 8.7
Max 60.0
Avg 38.4
Min 8.1
Max 60
Avg 35.6
VisionTek HD4870
Min 32.0
Max 62.2
Avg 53.8
Min 23.6
Max 62.0
Avg 49.9
Sapphire HD4870 Toxic
Min 28.6
Max 62.1
Avg 53.9
Min 26.5
Max 62.3
Avg 51.2
Sapphire HD4870 Toxic Overclocked
Min 34.7
Max 62.5
Avg 54.5
Min 29.5
Max 62.4
Avg 55.7

Supreme Commander

Settings are as follows; 1920 x 1200 and 1680x1050, High Settings 2x AntiAliasing.  Benchmark was ran by creating a shortcut on the desktop and adding /perf and the end of the .exe.  In Vista, you will need to run this as an administrator or it will crash.

  1680 x 1050 1920 x 1200
Sapphire 3870 SupComMark 17554 17273
FPS Avg 52.874 39.707
XFX 8800GTS Alpha Dog Edition SupComMark 17395 17150
FPS Avg 52.048 44.563
XFX 9800GTX SupComMark 17405 17179
FPS Avg 53.053 45.841
VisionTek HD4870 SupComMark 17839 17650
FPS Avg 62.884 49.420
Sapphire HD4870 Toxic SupComMark 17850 17699
FPS Avg 62.893 56.976
Sapphire HD4870 Toxic Overclocked SupComMark 17866 17710
FPS Avg 63.056 57.504

Devil May Cry 4 Demo

Devil May Cry 4 is coming to the PC soon.  Currently there is a demo that you can download and play.  The demo includes a performance test.  The test runs through 4 scenes and spits out FPS for each scene.

  Resolution Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4
Sapphire 3870 Toxic 1680 x 1050 65.51 49.23 70.85 48.69
1920 x 1200 50.26 40.65 59.68 39.84
XFX 8800GTS Alpha Dog Edition 1680 x 1050 89.91 67.52 97.95 61.56
1920 x 1200 71.21 51.76 79.14 51.48
XFX 9800GTX 1680 x 1050 92.66 69.45 110.42 64.11
1920 x 1200 75.32 54.13 91.61 53.94
VisionTek HD4870 1680 x 1050 125.49 93.67 147.44 90.56
1920 x 1200 110.35 84.86 126.79 78.35
Sapphire HD4870 Toxic 1680 x 1050 129.12 100.19 150.25 93.77
1920 x 1200 114.09 91.82 133.98 84.16
Sapphire HD4870 Toxic Overclocked 1680 x 1050 133.90 103.38 172.18 96.84
1920 x 1200 119.09 91.96 135.86 88.24

Crysis

Ever since Crysis came out, it has been bringing the best computers to their knees.  Let's see how the 4870 handle one of the roughest bench marking games on the planet.  The HardwareOC Crysis benchmark program was used and the settings were on high and FSAA was at 2x.

  1680 x 1050 1920 x 1200
Sapphire 3870 Toxic
Min 5
Max 24
Avg 18
Min 0
Max 19
Avg 11
XFX 8800GTS Alpha Dog Edition
Min 13
Max 22
Avg 18
Min 0
Max 22
Avg 18
XFX 9800GTX
Min 4
Max 31
Avg 25
Min 2
Max 25
Avg 19
VisionTek HD4870
Min
Max 43
Avg 26
Min 0
Max 36
Avg 20
Sapphire HD4870 Toxic
Min 5
Max 41
Avg 27
Min 3
Max 33
Avg 24
Sapphire HD4870 Toxic Overclocked
Min 2
Max 42
Avg 28
Min 1
Max 33
Avg 25

Crysis is still one of the toughest benchmarks around for videocards.  The HD4870 is holding its own and is delivering some decent frame rates on high setting.

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