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The Radeon HD 4770 strikes a balance between performance and price, coming just under the lucrative $100 mark and slotting in nicely in terms of performance between existing Radeon 4670 and 4850 videocards.
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AA/AF Videocard Benchmarks: Crysis
Crysis is a
science fiction first-person shooter developed by Crytek. Crysis uses
Microsoft's new API, DirectX 10 for graphics rendering, and includes the new
engine—the CryEngine 2—that is the successor to Far Cry's CryEngine. CryEngine 2
is among the first engines to use the DirectX 10 framework of Windows Vista, but
can also run using DirectX 9, both on Vista and Windows XP.
 Crysis 1.2 1600x1200 HQ
- AA/AF |
| 1600x1200 4xAA |
FPS |
Ranking |
| Palit HD4870 X2 2GB |
36.8 |
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| Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A |
21.8 |
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| Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A
(Crossfire) |
27.95 |
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| MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC |
25.2 |
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| Asus EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A |
39.75 |
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| Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M |
24.7 |
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| MSI R4830 T2D512-OC (Radeon 4830) |
22.01 |
|
 Asus EAH4770
HTDI/512MD5/A |
23.21 |
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| ASUS ENGTS250 DK |
25.09 |
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| ASUS ENGTS250 DK in SLI |
35.28 |
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| Gigabyte GV-N96TSL-1GI |
17.12 |
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| 1600x1200 8xAA |
FPS |
Ranking |
| Palit HD4870 X2 2GB |
37.2 |
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| Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A |
28.2 |
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| Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A
(Crossfire) |
34.52 |
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| MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC |
28.8 |
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| Asus EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A |
42.89 |
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| Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M |
26.9 |
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| MSI R4830 T2D512-OC (Radeon 4830) |
24.22 |
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| Asus EAH4770
HTDI/512MD5/A |
27.97 |
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| ASUS ENGTS250 DK |
21.25 |
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| ASUS ENGTS250 DK in SLI |
26.59 |
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| Gigabyte GV-N96TSL-1GI |
16.5 |
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| 1900x1200 4xAA |
FPS |
Ranking |
| Palit HD4870 X2 2GB |
33.8 |
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| Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A |
20.3 |
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| Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A
(Crossfire) |
24.69 |
|
| MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC |
14.5 |
|
| Asus EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A |
35.43 |
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| Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M |
18 |
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| MSI R4830 T2D512-OC (Radeon 4830) |
18.41 |
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| Asus EAH4770
HTDI/512MD5/A |
20.58 |
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| ASUS ENGTS250 DK |
19.78 |
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| ASUS ENGTS250 DK in SLI |
26.21 |
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| Gigabyte GV-N96TSL-1GI |
14.2 |
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| 1900x1200 8xAA |
FPS |
Ranking |
| Palit HD4870 X2 2GB |
34.2 |
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| Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A |
24 |
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| Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A
(Crossfire) |
30.88 |
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| MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC |
24.3 |
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| Asus EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A |
38.19 |
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| Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M |
23.4 |
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| MSI R4830 T2D512-OC (Radeon 4830) |
21.02 |
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| Asus EAH4770
HTDI/512MD5/A |
23.81 |
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| ASUS ENGTS250 DK |
18.56 |
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| ASUS ENGTS250 DK in SLI |
21.33 |
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| Gigabyte GV-N96TSL-1GI |
13.58 |
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In the
final game benchmark of the day, the ASUS EAH4770 videocard again takes
advantage of the RV740's better anti-aliasing performance to achieve a slightly
higher scores in Crysis than the NVIDIA Geforce GTS 250. 1920x1200 with 8xAA is
a punishing resolution for any videocard, and it's a little ambitious to ask a
$100 videocard for smooth frame rates at these settings... even still, the ASUS
EAH4770 does it's best to maintain 23FPS.
Great Gaming Performance for Under a Hundred
Bucks?
AMD has
produced a scrappy little fighter with the Radeon HD 4770 graphics processor,
and ASUS a fine example of it in the EAH4770 HTDI/512GD5/A videocard. This
videocard handily outclasses the NVIDIA 9600GT and AMD Radeon HD 4670 and 4830
videocards that hang around the hundred dollar mark, while still trading blows
with more expensive solutions like the Radeon HD 4850 and Geforce GTS 250
videocards. 
While the
Radon HD 4770 'RV770' doesn't have as much shader power as the RV770 or G92+,
its faster core clock speeds let it compensate. In games that use
shader-intensive effects like heat distortion, HDR light blooming or motion
blur, the Radeon HD 4770 isn't quite as efficient.
Of course nothing is ever quite that simple, since
top-quality games do all sorts of visual tricks and optimizations to eke as much
performance out of a GPU as possible. In real-world gaming, the ASUS EAH4770 is
generally one to five percent slower than Radeon HD 4850 cards. Both Radeon
cards are a shade faster than NVIDIA's Geforce GTS 250 videocard in situations
where anti-aliasing is turned up.
This is an outstanding value, considering that Radeon HD
4850 and Geforce GTS 250 videocards cost around $150 USD. The ASUS EAH4770
will only set you back $100 USD ($120 CAD, £70 GBP), and at that price it wipes
the floor with every other card on the market in terms of sheer gaming value for
money. It harkens back to the days of the original Geforce 8800GT, which
provided performance on par with much faster videocards at lower prices than
enthusiasts thought possible.
With its low power requirements, good acoustic levels and
outstanding value for money, the new ATI Radeon HD 4770 videocard is a clear
winner for entry-level videocard buyers. Anyone looking to spend $100 on a
videocard should automatically draft the Asus EAH4770 to the top of their
shortlist, and even those with some extra cash might want to reconsider given
how closely the performance of this videocard compares to its more expensive
peers.
In PCSTATS overclocking tests, we were easily able to
push the ASUS EAH4770 videocard to 830MHz GPU / 850MHz memory, up from the
cards' default 750MHz GPU / 800MHz memory settings. Nice.
The traditional 'sweet spot' for videocards has been
where videocards become fast enough to play most games with their features
turned up, but before the prices become inflated for high-end 'enthusiast'
videocards. AMD and NVIDIA's rivalry over the 'value' market that started with
the Geforce 8800GT, continued with the Radeon HD 4850 has finally culminated in
the Radeon HD 4770, a videocard that proves you can get gaming videocards even
at humble prices.
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