Irst benchmark figures for HD 4870

[rangers]

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12701&Itemid=1

The first benchmark figures for AMD's new Radeon HD 4890 are out and it doesn't look like the card is a huge improvement over the Radeon HD 4870, at least on in the two Futuremark benchmarks that the card in question got tested with.

As far as the test system is concerned, we don't have the full details, but it's using a Core i7 920 processor and has 3GB of DDR3 memory and the operating system of choice was Windows Vista. In 3DMark06 the card scored 16,096 points which is roughly about 1,000 points faster than the Radeon HD 4870. The HDR/SM3.0 test was up by over 500 points as well, which falls in line with the more efficient Shaders that the 4890 is said to have.

In 3DMark Vantage the card scored P10996 with a GPU score of P9801. The test results are all at stock speeds, but don't seem to be very remarkable. However, newer drivers might still change things, as it's not clear what driver version was used and early beta drivers generally doesn't offer as good performance as production drivers. It's also worth keeping in mind that we don't know what the rest of the components of this system were, so it's hard to draw any final conclusion from these results.

 

[rangers]

got this all wrong and it wont let me edit 4890

http://www.ocheaven.com/news_view.asp?gid=6754

 

[Nica Guy]

remember ati cards are not too good at those 2 tests, and a 1000 points increase at stock might be decent...
just saying...

 

[Nica Guy]

and the cpu is at stock, OC'ing it will result in much higher score, maybe 2k in mark06...

 

[Euphoria_MK]

Well what I am interested in seeing is the VRM temperatures on this card. hd4870 tends to have VRM temps in the high 90s and low 100s when under full load, so I wonder what would happen when they run it at 4890 clock using same architecture as previous card?...

Cheers

 

[L1qu1d]

Epenis alert!!!!!

Synthetics means nothing. The 2900 XT creamed the 8800 Ultra in synthetics, and was no where near the gaming power.

The 280 GTX kills the 4870 X2 in Vantage, yet in real game scenerios it loses the 4870 X2 in almost every benchmark (excluding the ones that don't use sli/crossX).

but nice find, its a step forward atleast.

 

[L1qu1d]

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12695&Itemid=1

Another fud post