POWERCOLOR RADEON HD 4730 vs HIS RADEON HD 3870 BY ULTIMATE HARDWARE

POWERCOLOR RADEON HD 4730 PCS REVIEW

"Powercolor Radeon HD 4730 PCS also featuring the HIS Radeon HD 3870. The Powercolor Radeon HD 4730 PCS has a 11% lower clock speed, 38% higher memory speed and 320 extra pixel shaders compared to the HIS Radeon HD 3870. Software used for testing was Fear and Unreal Tournament 3."

POWERCOLOR RADEON HD 4730

	SYSTEM INFORMATION
VIDEO CARD	POWERCOLOR RADEON HD 4730
	HIS RADEON HD 3870
PROCESSOR	AMD PHENOM II X4 955
MOTHERBOARD	MSI K9A2 PLATINUM AMD 790 FX
ATI DRIVER	CATALYST v9.7 WHQL
NVIDIA DRIVER	FORCEWARE v190.38 WHQL
MEMORY	CORSAIR 4GB DDR2 XMS2 DOMINATOR
OPERATING SYSTEM	WINDOWS VISTA

FEAR

NORMAL QUALITY

	135
	130

HIGH QUALITY

	114
	105

EXTREME QUALITY

	70
	66

POWERCOLOR RADEON HD 4730 HIS RADEON HD 3870

COMMENT - "Powercolor Radeon HD 4730 PCS put in a good performance beating the HIS Radeon HD 3870 by 6% with Fear."

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 3

NORMAL QUALITY

	155
	140

HIGH QUALITY

	131
	115

EXTREME QUALITY

	86
	81

POWERCOLOR RADEON HD 4730 HIS RADEON HD 3870

COMMENT - "Powercolor Radeon HD 4730 PCS puts in a great performance beating the HIS Radeon HD 3870 by 16% with Unreal Tournament 3."

FINAL RESULT

COMMENT - "The Powercolor Radeon HD 4730 PCS put in some good performances beating the HIS Radeon HD 3870 by 8% overall. Although the Powercolor Radeon HD 4730 PCS is not as fast as the standard Radeon HD 4730 and much slower than the Radeon HD 4770 it's performance was usually very good delivering playable frame rates in all of the games tested. However if you have a Radeon HD 3870 you might be disappointed with the small performance increase shown by the Powercolor Radeon HD 4730 PCS. I recommend the Powercolor Radeon HD 4730 PCS as a good upgrade providing you have a video card which is below HIS Radeon HD 3870 level!"

POWERCOLOR RADEON HD 4730 PCS SCORES 8/10!

POWERCOLOR RADEON HD 4730 PCS REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - POWERCOLOR RADEON HD 4730 INTRODUCTION

PAGE 2 - 3DMARK 2006, CALL OF DUTY 4 AND ENEMY TERRITORY QUAKE WARS

PAGE 3 - FEAR, UNREAL TOURNAMENT 3 AND FINAL RESULT

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