ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 - AMD Back On Top

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by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 12:01 AM EDT

Unreal Tournament 3

DirectX Gaming Performance

Unreal Tournament 3

If you're a long-time PC gamer, the Unreal Tournament franchise should need no introduction. UT's fast paced action and over the top weapons have been popular for as long as Epic has been making the games. For these tests, we used the latest addition to the franchise, Unreal Tournament 3. The game doesn't have a built-in benchmarking tool, however, so we enlisted the help of FRAPS here. These tests were run at resolutions of 1,920 x 1,200 and 2,560 x 1,600 with no anti-aliasing or anisotropic filtering enabled, but with the UT3's in game graphical options set to their maximum values, with color correction enabled.

Unreal Tournament 3 is largely CPU bound, even at a resolution 1920x1200. With the game running at 2560x1600 though (the blue bars in the graph), things spread out a bit more. At that resolution, the Radeon HD 4870 X2 is the fastest of all the single-card configurations and it hangs with a GTX 260 SLI rig. In a dual-card CrossFireX configuration, a pair of 4870 X2 cards also puts up the best score bar none, but the GeForce GTX 200 series SLI setups are right there with it, finishing only a couple of frames per second behind.

Tags: AMD, ATI, Radeon, HD, X2, Radeon HD 4870, 4870, Radeon HD, ATI Radeon, AC, AM, K

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com