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Review: Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 XT and XFX Radeon HD 4890 OC XXX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

by Tarinder Sandhu on 2 April 2009, 05:00 3.7

Tags: Radeon HD 4890 XT 1GB (Sapphire) 9.4, AMD (NYSE:AMD), Sapphire, ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), XFX (HKG:1079), PC

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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (high-end) 1,680x1,050 4xAA 16xAF
XFX HD 4890 OC 1,024MBBFG GTX 260 896MB NVIDIA GTX 275 896MBBFG GTX 285 1,024MBSapphire HD 4890 XT 1,024MBSapphire HD 4870 1,024MB
96.4592.13106.7115.893.582.55


Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (high-end) 1,920x1,200 4xAA 16xAF
XFX HD 4890 OC 1,024MBBFG GTX 260 896MB NVIDIA GTX 275 896MBBFG GTX 285 1,024MBSapphire HD 4890 XT 1,024MBSapphire HD 4870 1,024MB
82.376.1788.596.3379.4569.55


Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (high-end) 2,560x1,600 4xAA 16xAF
XFX HD 4890 OC 1,024MBBFG GTX 260 896MB NVIDIA GTX 275 896MBBFG GTX 285 1,024MBSapphire HD 4890 XT 1,024MBSapphire HD 4870 1,024MB
5348.6756.762.650.9544.83


Again, Radeon HD 4890 XT is almost 15 per cent faster than HD 4870, and that's telling at 1,920x1,200 and 2,560x1,600. GeForce GTX 275 still manages to just beat out the HD 4890 OC in this test, too, but you would never see the difference visually.