Palit Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB Video 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.


UTIII isn’t exactly the best game to show this card’s prowess since it is severely CPU bound at anything but the highest resolutions. However, once we actually get to those high resolutions the X2 is really able to start stretching its legs

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 a game that has until recently been the sole territory of Nvidia and even though the GTX 280 puts up a brave fight, it just can’t reach the same level as the HD4870 X2. Interestingly, here we once again see the Crossfire setup edging out the 2GB card.