Performance Tests

The graphics cards are ranked in the diagrams in the order of ascending recommended price. Radeon HD 46xx series is marked orange, HD 47xx series – green, HD 48xx series – blue and dual-processor HD 4870 X2 – red. We would like to start with the results obtained in synthetic benchmarks.

3DMark 2006 and 3DMark Vantage

The results in both synthetic benchmarks lined up the graphics cards according to their prices. The performance gain in 3DMark 2006 is almost linear, while a more demanding 3DMark Vantage we clearly see the slowest cards falling behind.

World in Conflict

The results in World in Conflict are very similar to what we have just seen in synthetic benchmarks. There is nothing unexpected about them, so let’s move on to the next test.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Radeon HD 4770 managed to outperform a more expensive Radeon HD 4850 in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars game in test modes without any image quality enhancements. It must be due to high GPU frequency of the HD 4770 solution. However, once the load increases, wider memory bus starts to matter more, and HD 4850 has twice the bus width of HD 4770. This is where the defeat of HD 4770 in quality gaming modes and in high screen resolutions comes from. Other than that, we didn’t notice anything extraordinary in this game.