Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Review

Crysis: Warhead (DX9)

To benchmark Warhead, we recorded a 5 minute timedemo on the Ice level which included ranged and hand to hand combat. The sequence was then played back using the Crysis Benchmarking Tool from HOC

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ATI seems to always struggle against the competition in Warhead and even after numerous driver updates, not much has changed. While the HD 4890 is able to hang with the GTX 275 quite well in some tests, it starts falling further behind as resolution and IQ settings increase. On the other hand, it once again shows remarkable gains over a stock HD 4870 1GB.