ASUS Matrix & Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD 4870, 4850
Test Setup & 3DMark06
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Hardware Used: Asus P5K3 Deluxe Radeon HD 4870 512MB Integrated Audio |
Relevant Software: Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 (32-bit) DirectX November 2008 Redist NVIDIA Forceware v181.20 |
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3DMark06 is the tried and tested veteran member of the 3DMark franchise. Although it has been superceded by 3DMark Vantage, it still provides relevent benchmark results. 3DMark06 ups the number of shaders to 512 and also employs lighting and there is extensive use of soft shadows. Note that in this version of the benchmark, SM 2.0 and HDR / SM3.0 tests are weighted and the CPU score is factored into the final tally as well. |
In our first benchmark, 3DMark06, we get our first taste of how these cards perform. The ASUS matrix 4850 sticks very close to the score posted by the stock reference 4850 since they are of similar clock speed. However, both the Matrix and Toxic 4870s have left the reference model in the dust thanks to factory overclocking.
The shader 2.0 and 3.0/HDR test results give us a better breakdown of how performance differed between the cards. It's worth noting here that although the GeForce GTX 280 was faster overall, it was only due to better performance in shader 2.0. In the shader 3.0 and HDR tests, the 4870's performed about par with the GTX 280.
