Sapphire HD4890 Vapor-X 2GB

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:

The stock Vapor-X punches in a respectable P12138 at its stock clocks, and overclocking it to 940/1200 boosts the score another 7% to P12978. 

Vantage High:

On the High Preset, the stock settings hit H7353, and overclocking increased the score by 7.7% to H7920. 

Vantage Extreme:

On the Extreme Preset, the stock card hits X4885, while overclocking pushes it up 8.2% to X5285. 

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.

In 3DMark06, the stock Vapor-X ran at 19379, while overclocking increased the score by a mere 2.7%, to 19902. 

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