ATI HD4870 & HD4850 Crossfire Performance Review

by Michael "SKYMTL" Hoenig     |     August 7, 2008

3DMark Vantage


3DMark Vantage is the follow-up to the highly successful 3DMark06. It uses exclusively DX10 so if you are running Windows XP, you can forget about running this benchmark. However, it presents us with a truly stressful test of any modern graphics card so we have decided to begin including it in our testing procedure.

Overall Score



GPU Score


Once again the ATI Crossfire setups provide very, very impressive performance. We were most impressed with the HD4850 Crossfire scores since the two cards used cost less than a single GTX 280 but provide significantly better performance for the most part. The HD4870s continue to lead the pack by a fair amount while once again the mixed Crossfire setup shows basically the same performance as the HD4850s.
 
 
 

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