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Review: Sapphire (AMD) Radeon HD 4670: bullying the mainstream market

by Tarinder Sandhu on 10 September 2008, 09:09

Tags: Radeon HD 4670 512MB, ATI Radeon HD 4670, AMD (NYSE:AMD), Sapphire, ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD), PC

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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars - 1,280x1,024 - 4xAA 16xAF
XFX 9500 GT 256Sapphire HD 3650 512XFX 9600 GSOSapphire HD 4670 512ZOTAC 9600GT
30.423.846.3364.5374.6


Enemy Territory: Quake Wars - 1,680x1,050 - 4xAA 16xAF
XFX 9500 GT 256Sapphire HD 3650 512XFX 9600 GSOSapphire HD 4670 512ZOTAC 9600GT
21.4718.537.4349.9758.93


The Radeon HD 3850 256MB card has been ommited from the graphs for the simple reason that, after multiple attempts, it would not complete the benchmark on our test system - the same one used for the trio of Radeon cards. We'll look into this later and report back as to why.

Here, 1,680x1,050 frame-rate is a healthy 50fps, which is faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO and only topped by the GT variant. The GSO's relatively low scores can be put down to a lack of frame-buffer, which is 384MB on the tested card.

What's surprising is that HD 4670 is almost 3x quicker than HD 3650 and, more importantly, provides smooth frame-rates, too.