Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Review

Far Cry 2 (DX9)

Even though Far Cry 2 has its own built-in benchmarking tool with some flythroughs and “action scenes”, we decided to record our own timedemo consisting of about 7 minutes of game time. It involves everything from run-and-gun fights to fire effects. The built-in benchmarking too was then set up to replay the timedemo and record framerates

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The performance of the HD 4890 in some of these apps is pretty shocking considering it is punching way above its weight class in some cases. In Far Cry 2 DX10 it either beats or sticks right with the GTX 275 and once again outperforms the HD 4870 1GB by a wide margin.