Just finished some preliminary testing with my new HD4670.
For
less than 100 US, this card is an absolute steal when you consider its performance.
I ran some preliminary performance numbers with Far Cry 2. Was there ever a time when a card costing
less than 100 US could play a current title on HIGH!!?
All screenies were taken with FRAPs at 1680 x 1050
Medium with no AA
Medium with 2 x AA
High with no AA
High with 2 x AA
Using the benchmark tool
All settings on high at 1680 x 1050 with Vsync disabled, and AI enabled.
Average framerate after 3 loops:
With no AA
With 2 x AA
I'll run some more tests with Race Driver GRiD which is rather punishing on GPUs as well.
Considering these tests were run at 1680 x 1050, I would say this card is quite a performer.
At lower resolutions, like 1280 x 1024, expect to see quite a jump in framerate.
...oh, and did I say this card is *Arcman Approved*
?
So now AMD owns this price point as well.
Just out of curiousity, I had to run a benchmark.
System specs are as follows:
Asus M2A-VM motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ @ 3GHz
2 x 1GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2-800
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD4670 1GB
Quite a respectable result, considering the platform used for testing. Of course the result
would be higher in an Intel Core 2 Duo rig. This card is highly recommended if one's hardware budget
is severely constrained. Just expect to have to turn down the image quality options when the resolution goes up,
but this card 'should' be able to handle most current games at 1280 x 1024, on medium to high settings, with 2 x AA
(depending on the title of course).
