GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870 REVIEW
"Gainward Radeon HD 4870 review which we are comparing to the Gainward Radeon HD 4850. The Gainward Radeon HD 4870 is a powerful video card with 800 Shaders for amazing gaming performance. The Gainward Radeon HD 4870 also features advanced GDDR5 memory running at 3600 Mhz DDR which is 45% faster than the Gainward Radeon HD 4850. Software used for benchmarking was Bio-Shock, Call of Duty 4 and Quake Wars."
| SYSTEM INFORMATION | |
| VIDEO CARD | GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870 |
| GAINWARD RADEON HD 4850 | |
| ATI DRIVER | CATALYST v8.9 |
| PROCESSOR | AMD PHENOM X4 9950 BLACK EDITION |
| MOTHERBOARD | MSI K9A2 PLATINUM AMD 790 FX |
| MEMORY | CORSAIR 4GB DDR2 XMS2 DOMINATOR |
| OPERATING SYSTEM | WINDOWS VISTA |
BIO-SHOCKNORMAL QUALITY
HIGH QUALITY
EXTREME QUALITY
GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870 GAINWARD RADEON HD 4850 |
COMMENT - "The Gainward Radeon HD 4870 makes a very good start beating the Gainward Radeon HD 4850 by 17% to 24%." |
CALL OF DUTY 4 |
 | 76 |
 | 63 |
HIGH QUALITY
| 74 |
| 59 |
EXTREME QUALITY
| 70 |
| 55 |
GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870 GAINWARD RADEON HD 4850
COMMENT - "The Gainward Radeon HD 4870 continues it's great performance with Call of Duty 4 by beating the Gainward Radeon HD 4850 by 17% to 21%."
ENEMY TERRITORY |
| 88 |
| 77 |
HIGH QUALITY
| 78 |
| 59 |
EXTREME QUALITY
| 68 |
| 52 |
GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870 GAINWARD RADEON HD 4850
COMMENT - "The Gainward Radeon HD 4870 further distances itself from the Gainward Radeon HD 4850 by 13% to 24%."
FINAL RESULTCOMMENT - "The Gainward Radeon HD 4870 delivered excellent gaming performance and showed a clear advantage over the Gainward Radeon HD 4850. The Gainward Radeon HD 4870 is a very powerful video card and delivered excellent performance even when using the Extreme Quality setting which uses a very high resolution. The Gainward Radeon HD 4870 builds on the excellent performance shown with the Gainward Radeon HD 4850 (which we rated very highly) and offers more performance. The Gainward Radeon HD 4870 makes a great upgrade but if your budget can't stretch to a 4870 then the Gainward Radeon HD 4850 would also makes an excellent upgrade!" |
 GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870 SCORES 10/10! |
GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870 REVIEW INDEX
| PAGE 1 - GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870 INTRODUCTION |
| PAGE 2 - 3DMARK 2006, 3DMARK VANTAGE AND BATTLEFIELD 2142 |
| PAGE 3 - MORE GAMES BENCHMARKS AND FINAL RESULT |
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