Overclocked Radeon HD 4870 X2 Shoot-Out: ASUS, MSI

Name: Overclocked Radeon HD 4870 X2 Shoot-Out: ASUS, MSI - Page 4
Brand: Overclocked

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 01:00 PM EDT

Futuremark 3DMark Vantage

Synthetic DirectX Gaming

3DMark Vantage

The latest version of Futuremark's synthetic 3D gaming benchmark, 3DMark Vantage, is specifically bound to Windows Vista-based systems because it uses some advanced visual technologies that are only available with DirectX 10, which y isn't available on previous versions of Windows. 3DMark Vantage isn't simply a port of 3DMark06 to DirectX 10 though. With this latest version of the benchmark, Futuremark has incorporated two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, in addition to support for the latest PC hardware. We tested the graphics cards here with 3DMark Vantage's Extreme preset option, which uses a resolution of 1,920 x 1,200, with 4X anti-aliasing and 16X anisotropic filtering.

3DMark Vantage showed an unexpected large performance improvement for the factory overclocked Radeon HD 4870 X2 cards over the stock reference model. The slightly higher core and memory clocks of the Asus card give it a slight edge over MSI's offering.

The factory overclocked Radeon HD 4870 X2 cards from Asus and MSI showed the largest improvement in 3DMark Vantage's GPU Test 1, with the Asus card once again coming out on top by a slight margin.

Tags: Asus, MSI, ATI, Radeon, Overclocked, HD, overclock, X2, MS, Radeon HD 4870, 4870, Lock, shoot, Radeon HD, clock, SHO, 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