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Review: Mid-range mayhem: Sapphire's exclusive Radeon HD 4650 and HD 4670

by Tarinder Sandhu on 2 February 2009, 11:17 3.7

Tags: Sapphire RADEON HD 4650 , Sapphire RADEON HD 4670 , AMD (NYSE:AMD), Sapphire, ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD)

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Race Driver: GRID

Mid-range - Race Driver: GRID 1,280x1,024 4xAA 0xAF
XFX GeForce 9600 GT 512MB Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 512MB Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 512MB
52.7735.0547.97


Mid-range - Race Driver: GRID 1,680x1,050 4xAA 0xAF
XFX GeForce 9600 GT 512MB Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 512MB Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 512MB
42.3929.3540.07


The reason for having only three cards' results in Race Driver: GRID is due to how unplayable the game became with the Radeon HD 4550 and GeForce 9400 GT. It's FRAPS'd and average frame-rates become rather erratic with the low-end cards.

What we're seeing is that Sapphire's HD 4670 GDDR4 remains around one-third faster than the also-overclocked HD 4650 GDDR3, but both give way, expectedly, to the £85 GeForce 9600 GT.