ATI HD 4670 512MB GDDR3 Video Card Review

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


3DMark Vantage shows us the HD 4670 trailing slightly behind the older HD 3850 512MB but at the same time absolutely walking all over the 9500 GT.

3DMark 06

While some may wonder at the use of still including 3DMark06 in the tests it gives us a good idea of the basic limitations of a graphics card. Since the standard test runs at 1280x1024 there will be a fair amount of CPU bottlenecking with higher-end cards and remember that in many cases a higher 3DMark score does not equate better performance. Here we have also included tests with AA and AF enabled


3DMark 06 ended up being pretty much the same story as the Vantage test but what did make us stand up and take notice was how the new RV700-series core’s excellent AA performance brought the HD 4670 within spitting distance of the more powerful (on paper) HD 3850. Once again, the 9500 GT and 8600 GTS are left in the dust.