Gigabyte GV-R485MC-1GI Graphics Card Review: Silent Predator. Page 8

[04/30/2009 04:04 PM | Graphics]
by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko

Noise has long become a serious problem of contemporary high-performance computers. Both - users and component makers have united their efforts in battling this factor. Today we are going to check out Gigabyte’s contribution in the form of their new silent solution.

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Left 4 Dead

The game runs on the Source engine and has an integrated benchmark, but the latter does not report the bottom speed information.

The two models of Radeon HD 4850 and the pair of GeForce GTS 250 cards do not differ between each other irrespective of the display resolution. The GV-R485MC-1GI model from Gigabyte offers the additional advantage of high-quality components and absolute silence, though.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky

To achieve a playable speed in this game we disabled FSAA and such resource-consuming options as Sun rays, Wet surfaces and Volumetric Smoke. We use the Enhanced full dynamic lighting (DX10) mode for our test and additionally enable the DirectX 10.1 mode for the ATI cards.

The Radeon HD 4870 1GB is the only card that can deliver a comfortable speed at 1680x1050 here. The Gigabyte GV-R485MC-1GI is quite good at 1280x1024, being ahead of Nvidia’s solutions in terms of bottom speed.

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