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Sapphire HD 4850 Video Card Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: June 26, 2008
Page: 7 of 13
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3DMark Vantage Professional
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3DMark Vantage is the latest addition to the 3DMark series, measuring Shader 4.0 (i.e. DirectX 10) performance and supporting PhysX, a programming interface developed by Ageia (now part of nVidia) to transfer physics calculations from the system CPU to the video card GPU in order to increase performance. Physics is used to calculate how objects interact (for example, if you shoot what exactly will happen to the object when the bullet hits it – Will it break? Will it move? Will the bullet bounce back?). Notice that we didn’t upgrade the PhysX to the latest version, which would make the physics calculations for CPU Test 2 to be made by the GPU instead of the CPU on nVidia video cards (since we aren't considering CPU or 3DMark scores this change wouldn't produce any increase in our results anyway).

We ran this program under three 16:10 widescreen resolutions: 1680x1050, 1920x1200 and 2560x1600, first using the “Performance” profile, then using the “Extreme” profile – which basically enables anti-aliasing at 4x, anisotropic filtering at 16x and put all details settings at their maximum value (called “extreme”). The combination of 2560x1600 resolution with extreme settings didn’t produce reliable results according to the program, so we aren’t going to add them here. The results we are comparing are the “GPU Score” achieved by each video card.

Sapphire HD 4850

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 1680x1050 – PerformanceScoreDifference
GeForce GTX 280769560.41%
GeForce 9800 GX2699045.72%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2565117.80%
Sapphire Radeon HD 48504797 
GeForce 9800 GTX380526.07%
Radeon HD 3870297761.14%

Sapphire HD 4850

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 1920x1200 - PerformanceScoreDifference
GeForce GTX 280610663.92%
GeForce 9800 GX2537944.40%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2433616.40%
Sapphire Radeon HD 48503725 
GeForce 9800 GTX289128.85%
Radeon HD 3870226964.17%

Sapphire HD 4850

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 2560x1600 - PerformanceScoreDifference
GeForce GTX 280354973.12%
GeForce 9800 GX2291041.95%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2238216.20%
Sapphire Radeon HD 48502050 
GeForce 9800 GTX155731.66%
Radeon HD 3870124464.79%

Sapphire HD 4850

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 1680x1050 - ExtremeScoreDifference
GeForce GTX 280600574.31%
GeForce 9800 GX2485841.02%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X235673.54%
Sapphire Radeon HD 48503445 
GeForce 9800 GTX270327.45%
Radeon HD 3870185585.71%

Sapphire HD 4850

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 1920x1200 - ExtremeScoreDifference
GeForce GTX 280473271.89%
GeForce 9800 GX2350827.42%
Sapphire Radeon HD 48502753 
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X226693.15%
GeForce 9800 GTX203835.08%
Radeon HD 3870143991.31%

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