Sapphire Radeon HD4850 512MB Graphics Card Review

Unreal Tournament III

With absolutely stunning graphics, this popular online FPS provides great visuals to go hand-in-hand with palm-sweating gameplay.

For these tests we set up a 15 minute Bot Match on the Serenity level and let it play though. All of the results were recorded with the in-game benchmark tool.


This game seems be a bit tough on the HD4850 when compared to the 9800GTX but it is able to make up much of its loss at lower resolution by nearly equaling the performance of the GTX at and above 1600x1200.

Prey

Even though Prey may be a bit older game compared against many of the other ones we are testing, it still provides a workout of even the best graphics cards on the market. This time we have enabled its Graphics Boost feature (Gboost in the charts) and run through a custom timedemo.


Here we have another strong showing by the HD4850 which seems to love OpenGL games especially when AA is turned up to 4X or greater. So far its performance against the 9800GTX is extremely good.