4850 Benchmarks
I finally got around to doing benchmarks on my 4850. Since most sites target high end resolutions, I decided to target a common budget one, 1440×900. That resolution is very similar to 1280×1024, so performance should be about the same. This test was done in the CS:S video stress test.
As you can see, the card offers extremely good performance. It suffers very little when using either AA or AF, although it does have a bit of a hit when both are enabled. Despite that, 276 FPS is still much more than the human eye is capable of viewing, so its doesn’t matter.
Our next benchmark uses Furmark. while I don’t usually like to use benchmarks not from real world cases, I like this one because it is extremely stressful on the GPU, and because it uses OpenGL, so you can get an idea of performance outside of Windows. This test was also done at 1440×900.
These results are a little more disappointing. Performance is the same at 1xMSAA, but falls rapidly after that. If this was a game, 4x MSAA would have been the highest playable setting. Clearly ATI need to work on their drivers for OpenGL.
From a subjective standpoint, the only game I couldn’t max out at this resolution was (you guessed it) Crysis. Bioshock, all of the Source games, COD4, and The Witcher all ran silky smooth.
If you want me to run benchmarks for any other game, just let me know.
August 20th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
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