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Sapphire HD 4870 Video Card Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: July 24, 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 4870

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 1680x1050 - PerformanceScoreDifference
GeForce GTX 280769524.25%
GeForce 9800 GX2699012.87%
XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX (OC)68089.93%
Sapphire Radeon HD 48706193 
GeForce GTX 26058985.00%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X256519.59%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850479729.10%
GeForce 9800 GTX380562.76%
Radeon HD 38702977108.03%

Sapphire HD 4870

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 1920x1200 - PerformanceScoreDifference
GeForce GTX 280610625.12%
GeForce 9800 GX2537910.23%
XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX (OC)53158.91%
Sapphire Radeon HD 48704880 
GeForce GTX 26045826.50%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2433612.55%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850372531.01%
GeForce 9800 GTX289168.80%
Radeon HD 38702269115.07%

Sapphire HD 4870

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 2560x1600 - PerformanceScoreDifference
GeForce GTX 280354930.10%
XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX (OC)306812.46%
GeForce 9800 GX229106.67%
Sapphire Radeon HD 48702728 
GeForce GTX 26026403.33%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2238214.53%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850205033.07%
GeForce 9800 GTX155775.21%
Radeon HD 38701244119.29%

Sapphire HD 4870

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 1680x1050 - ExtremeScoreDifference
GeForce GTX 280600537.73%
XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX (OC)531922.00%
GeForce 9800 GX2485811.42%
GeForce GTX 26045313.92%
Sapphire Radeon HD 48704360 
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2356722.23%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850344526.56%
GeForce 9800 GTX270361.30%
Radeon HD 38701855135.04%

Sapphire HD 4870

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 1920x1200 - ExtremeScoreDifference
GeForce GTX 280473235.59%
XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX (OC)418820.00%
GeForce GTX 26035762.46%
GeForce 9800 GX235080.52%
Sapphire Radeon HD 48703490 
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850275326.77%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2266930.76%
GeForce 9800 GTX203871.25%
Radeon HD 38701439142.53%

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