Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Review

Crysis: Warhead (DX10)

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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While the HD 4890 proves to be quite competitive at most resolutions, it just can’t seem to keep up with the GTX 275 in Warhead DX10. However, it still shows some good improvements over the HD 4870 1GB and nearly catches the GTX 275 at the highest resolution.