Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

We disabled the integrated frame rate limiter in the game console for the sake of comparing the cards. The game’s built-in benchmarking options do not provide information about the bottom speed, so there is no such info in the diagrams.

Overclocking a Radeon HD 4890 may be rewarding at 2560x1600 where this card can beat the GeForce GTX 285. Gigabyte’s cards with UDV and 2oz Copper PCB technologies are overclocking-friendly and you may want to consider them if you plan to speed up your graphics card.

Far Cry 2

The Radeon HD 5870 is unrivalled, of course. At 2560x1600 Nvidia’s solutions are better due to a higher bottom speed, but an overclocked Radeon HD 4890 can be as good at low resolutions as a GeForce GTX 275 or even GeForce GTX 285.